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Zach Everson

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Power Tripping in the Swamp: How Trump's DC Hotel Swallowed Washington

Power Tripping in the Swamp: How Trump's DC Hotel Swallowed Washington

Vanity Fair — The MAGA social scene is a movable feast, but its dark heart resides within the Old Post Office Building, where the Trump Organization operates under a mercenary charter: America isn’t just open for business—it’s also for sale.
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Republicans Didn't Go To Trump Hotels Until He Became POTUS | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Republicans Didn't Go To Trump Hotels Until He Became POTUS | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber — Journalist Zach Everson joins The Beat to discuss Trump's strategy to profit from his presidency. Everson reports '26 out of 53 Republican Senators' have visited Trump's hotel in D.C, including the RNC which 'has spent $400K.' This revelation comes as House Dems probe Trump's efforts to use taxpayer's dollars to line his pockets.
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1100 Pennsylvania

1100 Pennsylvania

Newsletter — News about the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. and President Trump's other businesses.
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How Trump's D.C. hotel works to help swamp the drain

How Trump's D.C. hotel works to help swamp the drain

Fast Company — "Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon," President Donald J. Trump tweeted on April 2, 2018. It was just one of the president's many jabs at Amazon, repeatedly claiming that the U.S.
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Delegation From Mueller-Scrutinized Cyprus Gets Sweet Deal at Trump's D.C. Hotel

Delegation From Mueller-Scrutinized Cyprus Gets Sweet Deal at Trump's D.C. Hotel

The Daily Beast — A delegation from the country of Cyprus was looking for ways to influence the Trump administration when it came to Washington D.C. in late May. And so, it did what many savvy influence-peddlers in the nation's capital would do. It booked its conference in the president's hotel.
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Why Instagram is the best window into Trump-era corruption

Why Instagram is the best window into Trump-era corruption

Fast Company — Meanwhile, that week at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., a lobbyist for one of Japan's auto makers paid a visit ("#working"), Indonesia's deputy coordinating minister of maritime affairs (in town for the International Monetary Fund's spring meeting) had breakfast , and the wife of a Republican candidate for county judge in Ohio praised the hotel's beauty.
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Trump's D.C. Hotel Gave a Sweetheart Rate to a Pro-Immigrant Worker Group

Trump's D.C. Hotel Gave a Sweetheart Rate to a Pro-Immigrant Worker Group

The Daily Beast — The Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., commanded more than $40.4 million in revenue in 2017 and it did so with a simple business strategy. To overcome a low occupancy rate, it charged President Donald Trump's supporters, and organizations hoping to curry favor, one of the highest room rates in the city.
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Inside the World's Most Controversial Hotel

Inside the World's Most Controversial Hotel

Condé Nast Traveler — Just inside the main entrance to the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. one rainy Saturday evening in April, 2017, six earpiece-clad, dark-suited agents stood in a cluster, speaking in low tones. Some 100-plus hotel guests, in a mix of touristic athleisure and casual cocktail attire, were milling around the hotel's grand atrium.
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Trump Hotel Paid Millions in Fines for Unpaid Work

Trump Hotel Paid Millions in Fines for Unpaid Work

The Daily Beast — WHAT TIMING In the days around Donald Trump's inauguration, the hotel bearing his name in downtown Washington, D.C., quietly settled two liens totaling more than $3 million for allegedly unpaid construction work. In one case, a contractor reached an agreement after receiving a phone call from someone his attorney identified as "Trump."
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Already a success? Trump uses official DC hotel opening to plug brand triumphs

Already a success? Trump uses official DC hotel opening to plug brand triumphs

Fox News — Republican nominee Donald Trump was back in the nation's capital Wednesday to celebrate the official opening of Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. "With the notable exception of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this is the most coveted piece of real estate in Washington DC.
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What I've Learned Staking Out Trump's Washington Hotel

What I've Learned Staking Out Trump's Washington Hotel

Politico — The Trump family is reportedly exploring a sale of the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C., partly out of concerns raised by ethics watchdogs and emoluments lawsuits that the president is profiting off of his presidency. The Trumps are right to be (belatedly) worried. I know the Trump Hotel D.C.
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President Trump Is in the Private Hospitality Business, and Business Is Booming in D.C.

President Trump Is in the Private Hospitality Business, and Business Is Booming in D.C.

The Daily Beast — Spoiler alert: President Trump never did build that wall he promised. You know, the one between his administration and his business. Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney flat-out said that on Sunday, in his latest shared bit of truth about the president that sounded like an excerpt from an article of impeachment.
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Opinion | Trump's D.C. hotel is one of the worst swamps in the city. Selling it won't help.

Opinion | Trump's D.C. hotel is one of the worst swamps in the city. Selling it won't help.

NBC News — Seeking profit and maybe legitimacy, President Donald Trump's business announced at the end of October that it's considering selling the lease to its imposing Washington hotel. This should not be taken as a sign of ethical self-awareness. Offloading the Trump International Hotel Washington could make the Trump family millions.
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How Screwed Is the Trump Hotel D.C.?

How Screwed Is the Trump Hotel D.C.?

Slate — For three years, the lobby of the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., was the hedonistic center of the MAGA-verse. The room glittered with chandeliers and the flashes of sabers slicing open Champagne bottles (prefaced by the ringing of a bell to draw eyeballs to the spectacle).
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