“lease inked in 2013” -— I am shocked the Bezos Post printed this, which apparently calls into question the entire gist of the story.
Still waiting after all these years.
The President has been negotiating deals all of his adult life. To call this ‘illegal’ would require them to know the personal thoughts of those doing the negotiating. This is not like Hillary’s cattle futures ‘matter’.
He should consider running as much of the campaign as possible out of places like Grand Rapids, Dubuque, Green Bay, Harrisburg, or Bemidji.
Normal rents would be a small fraction. Important states.
formerly led by Politico CEO Patrick Steel..................
There will be no end to this in our national political feeding frenzy so long as their is no price to be paid. In every transaction Trump enters into 50% of the people in it are political opponents and so this stuff will just go around and around.
We need much stronger defamation laws, civil AND criminal.
Okay
So, if he sub’d tobacco existing lease, why is he not entitled to pay rent based on that lease, further the owner of the lease should be able to decide what he wants to rent something for and lastly, have there been any complaints of him overpaying?
Jackasses...
Looking under every rock....while the Clinton Fake Foundation never gets a sniff.
I see, you are supposed to make bad deals to be credible??
Misleading title, which is unusual for The Washington Examiner. Pres. Trump got a good deal because he paid upfront in cash. It turns out that there might have been cheaper floor space on higher floors. Maybe a good deal, but not a steal or campaign finance cheating.
“Brad found out about it and went to them and said, ‘Hey, would you do a lump sum payment cash up front for the next two years? They said, ‘Sold!’”
“Pointing at potential overpayment, the 15th and 16th floors of the same building currently are advertised for $33 per square foot for a sublease through December. Like the Trump office space, they come furnished, said broker Brent Mathis, who believes the floors have been available roughly three years, meaning when the campaign was looking.
The lower rate for the higher floors could undercut the notion of a “steal,” though the official hearing of other new tenants paying higher rates cuts the other way.”
Ah, more rectal probings of Trump and his campaign that ‘may, ‘could’, ‘possibly’ violate something that democrat campaigns absolutely did violate which the media roundly ignored. And if some conservative did point it out they were vilified or ignored.
This is what they are down to? Net thing they’ll b filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
Seems to me that “market value” is subject to evaluation using *many* factors.For example,would the owner of the property be willing to take less than he might otherwise get to prevent the property from remaining vacant for a length of time?
2011 Parscale worked for Trump but just doing general tech stuff.
2013 Parscale gets the lease.
2015 Trump hires Parscale’s firm for the campaign.
I don’t get it but I see washington examiner has a banner at the top of their site for their ‘political summit with exciting speakers such as Karl Rove and John Kelly.
Makes a little more sense now - nevertrumper hit article.
Trump’s talked about running for president for 30 years now so I suppose any deal he’s gotten could be an in-kind campaign contribution?
whatta load of bs