Eliot Brown
Appearances
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
The Trump organization, his real estate and hotel and branding company, they said they wouldn't do foreign deals of any sort in the first term. For the second term, they've limited that to deals directly with foreign governments.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
Particularly the UAE and Qatar have done a surprising number of deals with the president's family, with his close associates, with his son-in-law.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
They are building a hotel with a private developer, but the private developer struck a deal with a Qatari state fund. And so then you have Eric Trump alongside a Qatari minister launching it publicly. So basically any one of these large number of things noted in our article would have been a scandal in most other administrations, if not every other administration.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
The sort of view of analysts and former diplomats is this can be another way of sort of pressuring the president to get what they want. And every country has something they want out of the U.S. The UAE, for instance, is really going big right now in pushing for an AI deal.