How Trump's Property in Manila Looms Over His Interactions With Duterte
The president’s decision to invite the leader of the Philippines to the White House is another example of a gesture complicated by his business interests.
For the second time in a two-week period, President Donald Trump reached out to the authoritarian leader of a country where he has business interests. On April 17, it was Turkish President Recep Erdogan, whom Trump in the aftermath of a constitutional referendum that was widely seen as . Trump owns a pair of buildings in Istanbul that he himself has as constituting “a little conflict of interest,” which, even in the absence of having made some sort of explicit deal to be friendly toward Erdogan in exchange for preferential toward Erdogan and his government.
