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    Trump’s Most Shameless Act of Profiteering

    The president is bringing the G7 to the struggling Trump Doral resort.
    by David A. Graham Oct 17, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    The Trump administration has a lot to grapple with at the moment—Turkey’s disastrous incursion into Syria, a strong likelihood of impeachment, a tough reelection campaign—but there’s always time for the president to profiteer from his job.

    White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced today that the United States will host the 2020 Group of Seven summit at Trump National Doral, the president’s golf course near Miami. In other words, Trump is choosing to host an important international conference at a resort he owns, . In a presidency marked by the shameless intermingling of the personal and the political, it may be the most brazen act of self-enrichment yet.

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