Topic: | Re:Re:Trump Comes Up Trumps!👍🏻 | |
Posted by: | James Elder | |
Date/Time: | 08/04/19 17:16:00 |
Reminded today of another episode in Trump's extraordinary history of dodgy deals and dubious business partners. Today, Trump looks likely to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC - a powerful Iranian military organisation) as a terrorist group: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/middleeast/iran-us-terror-designation.html Two years ago, Adam Davidson in The New Yorker wrote about how the Trump Organisation made a deal for a proposed Trump Tower Baku with the Azerbaijani Mammadov brothers. The Mammadovs' interest in the deal was very likely related to money laundering for the IRGC. Twitter thread setting this out: https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/1115273797752500224 Full article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal |