#Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world & announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D133B4F8-D174-4E43-8382-B1751B1F6A04
A contest of sorts has played out across #Europe, the #UnitedStates & the #MiddleEast in recent days as #Trump’s 2 older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name & power, each seemingly trying to outdo the other.
It is a rush to cash in that involves billions of dollars with few precedents in American history.
A luxury hotel in #Dubai. A second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, #SaudiArabia. 2 #cryptocurrency ventures based in the #US. A new golf course & villa complex in #Qatar. And a new private club in #Washington. In many cases these new deals promoted over the last week will personally benefit not only Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr., but also President #Trump himself.
The marathon of deal making has been so rapid that many elements have drawn limited public attention in the #UnitedStates, despite most of it being out in the open. That is in part because the sons appeared before mostly fawning crowds but also because #Trump, his appointees & his billionaire adviser #ElonMusk were making headlines with their own steady stream of norm-breaking controversies.
“There’s nothing like it,” said Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University historian who has written books on Presidents Ronald Reagan & Gerald R. Ford, addressing the financial #ConflictsOfInterest that have emerged in #Trump’s 2nd term.
Both Trump sons are involved in a wide range of family business ventures. Eric Trump, the president’s middle son, runs the #TrumpOrganization, the main family business, which *specializes* in real estate [#fraud].
Eric also serves on the board of a holding company that oversees #WorldLibertyFinancial, the family’s #crypto firm, & recently joined forces w/his older brother, Donald Trump Jr, to start a #Bitcoin mining operation, American Bitcoin.
The WH has said there are no #ethics issues because #Trump’s sons run the businesses🤣. “The president’s assets are in a trust managed by his children,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said. “There are no conflicts of interest.”😉
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