Documents show Trump lost millions operating D.C. hotel

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08 Окт 2021, 19:42

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Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million operating his Washington D.C. hotel while in office, according to documents released by congressional Democrats Friday.

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The committee also found that Trump received preferential treatment from Deutsche Bank, the German financial institution, which allowed Trump to delay making payments on the principal of a $170 million loan for six years. The panel says Trump personally guaranteed that loan. It also says Trump did not disclose «this significant benefit from a foreign bank» while he was president.

Also while he was president, the committee says, the hotel received an estimated $3.7 million from foreign governments which rented rooms in the facility, «raising concerns about possible violations of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause.»

«The documents provided by GSA raise new and troubling questions about former President Trump’s lease with GSA and the agency’s ability to manage the former President’s conflicts of interest during his term in office when he was effectively on both sides of the contract, as landlord and tenant,» wrote Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. and Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., chair of the Government Operations subcommittee.

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The documents also show that Trump failed to disclose over $1.1 billion in outstanding loan balances for property the Trump Organization owned in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco when he applied to lease the building in 2011.

The committee has asked the GSA to provide it further documents, including details of the Trump Hotel’s loan from Deutsche Bank, foreign government payments to the hotel and loans by Trump or his businesses to the hotel. (Read the documents: part 1, part 2 and part 3.)

NPR has reached out to the Trump Organization for a comment.