Will The Trumps Be Able To Separate Their Political And Financial Interests?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The first days as President of the United States have not been easy for Donald Trump and the recent controversy unleashed by Eric Trump's commented trip to Uruguay seems to revive the debate on whether the presidential family will be able to separate their economic and political interests.

During his campaigns for the presidency, the question of whether Trump would take advantage of his position in the White House to give a boost to his real estate empire was always a constant, to which the magician repeatedly assured that this would not be the case.

But it seems that the reality is very different from what the president assured in his career for the Oval Office, since his intervention in the dispute of his daughter Ivanka Trump with the Nordstrom stores and the criticized business trip to Uruguay that made his son would be clear examples of how difficult it will be for the president to completely disassociate himself from his life as an entrepreneur.

As the Washington Post revealed a few days ago, Eric's trip would have cost US taxpayers at least added Trump to the city of Punta del Este.

The empire of the presidential family has many interests in the Uruguayan city, as they are in the midst of the construction of a luxurious beachfront apartment tower, which of course bears the name of the family's emblematic family name in gold letters.

In statements delivered to CNN Spanish by the journalist of the newspaper El País Marcelo Gallardo, the price of the square meter of the building would have increased by 30% of its initial cost after Trump became the first president of the United States.

According to The Washington Post, this has been a clear example of how it will be almost impossible for the President's family to keep their businesses separate from their political role. Also adding that on this occasion, government agencies were forced to pay for operating expenses of their businesses and that in the end "they help make the president richer."

Members of the secret service would have been $ 88,320 the total paid for the lodging, to which is added $ 9,510 for the cost of lodging for members of the Uruguayan embassy who traveled to the popular South American resort.

The main objective of Eric's trip, which would have occurred in the first days of 2017, was to promote among investors the new project of his family in Uruguay.