Inside Trump Hotel: the glittering hub of a billionaire's Washington Read moreWelcome to the Trump hotel’s lucrative influence-peddling swamp in the heart of Washington DC. “This is a transactional administration that pays attention to such things.”Taylor called the Trump administration “easily the most corrupt and swampiest, if you will” in American history. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Trump family attends the grand opening ceremony of the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, on 26 October 2016. The hotel has become a money machine for key Trump congressional allies like the congressmen Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows who, respectively, held fundraisers there last month and in 2017. To Maguire, the welter of ethical and legal issues facing Trump’s hotel suggest it is “becoming harder and harder to figure out where the Trump administration ends and the Trump Organization begins”.

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2019 06:00 UTC