Interesting article.
I don’t think it is necessarily meaningful.
Donald Trump supporters may find the article interesting.
I suspect this firm and others that do the same work have a lot of clients from both sides of the aisle. No doubt they have a lot of private sector clients as well.
No doubt Trump uses this type of service in his private business. It makes a lot of sense if you do business overseas. After all, you don’t want to invest a billion dollars in a venture only to have a coup take it all away next month.
My uncle went to one of these firms to help decide about having the Japanese do some work for him. He ended up having the work done in south Korea.