Just days before the high-profile visit of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud to the White House, the Trump Organization and Dar Global announced an 80-villa development in the Maldives that will incorporate cryptocurrencies to “tokenize” the project—raising new concerns about the overlap with President Donald Trump’s political and business ventures.
Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce secretary, seems to have an uncanny ability to focus his political objectives on projects that stand to benefit his sons, who have taken over at his investment company, Cantor Fitzgerald.
The Trump administration has shown that if you don’t have the money, you don’t get invited into The Club, and The Washington Post ran an extensive article last week documenting how the country’s richest are pumping more money than ever into elections and wielding more influence than ever.
U.S. President Donald Trump has employed the military to take over city streets and to bomb alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, which prompted Democrats to film a video message to service members that it is their obligation to reject illegal orders from their chain of command.