Confronted about the shutdown of his father’s slush fund/“charity,” Eric Trump first pleaded ignorance.
Yeah, well, I know very little about it to tell you the truth.
But of course, no Trump can talk on any subject without trying to twist it into a Hillary attack, so …
You look at the Clinton Foundation taking $35 million from Saudi Arabia, who is one of the largest abusers of women and minorities in the world, and then three days later getting weapons deals from the State Department .
Yeah … about that. Hillary Clinton got not a penny from the Clinton Foundation. Neither did Bill. However, there was one person who took a nice chunk of change directly from the Saudi government.
Trump sold the 45th floor of Trump World Tower to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for $4.5 million in June 2001, according to a city Finance Department spokeswoman. In 2008, the apartments became part of the Saudi Mission to the United Nations, records show.
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Including fees that Trump continues to charge, “one of the largest abusers of women and minorities in the world” has directly paid Donald Trump more than $5 million. This is in addition to the news that Trump also rented space to an Iranian bank that was involved in funding terrorist and exporting nuclear secrets.
U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.
Donald Trump’s international business is entangled with political factions around the world, not least of all Vladimir Putin's authoritarian Russian government. But even when Trump is simply playing landlord, he’s making connections where he gets direct benefit from foreign governments.
Charges that Hillary Clinton had taken money from foreign governments have become one of the standard parts of Trump’s nightly rants. But the worst thing that could have happened with that $35 million that went to the Clinton Foundation? It went to help some of the more than 400 million people who have been helped by the foundation.
The worst thing that happened to the $5 million paid directly to Donald Trump? It went to Donald Trump.
