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Trumps necessity to donate to various political entities lies in is need to be able to build projects in the USA. He donated so if needed he could more easily change zoning or location.

The pukes your lumping him in with are carting jobs over seas in mass. I get it you hate Trump. But it’s very disingenuous to lie by omission when attacking him or his supporters. Your acting like a lib.

"......“When it comes to political hypocrisy, Donald Trump deserves a gold medal,” said Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan-Flint and creator of the economics blog Carpe Diem. “At the same time that the billionaire businessman criticizes Ford for producing some of its cars in Mexico, and threatens to stop any expansion there and impose a 35% tax on Ford imports from Mexico, he certainly has no trouble taking advantage of the global marketplace when it comes to his own businesses.”

Perry notes Trump has imported clothing from China and Mexico produced for his brand. “For Trump to operate, outsource and invest globally while criticizing companies like Ford for doing the same is the ultimate hypocrisy. To be fair to Ford, Trump should either agree to impose a 35% tax on Trump Collection clothing and agree to stop investing overseas, or he should stop his threats against Ford for operating as a global carmaker.”

As economists such as Don Boudreaux and Mark Perry point out, there is no real difference between a U.S. car company investing in a foreign country and a real estate company building a hotel or office building in a foreign country.

Under “Our Hotels” on the Trump Hotel Collection website, it lists six domestic hotels and six international hotels. Is the problem Ford is building something in Latin America? Well, there are Trump hotels in Panama and Rio de Janeiro. The other hotels abroad are in Toronto, Doonbeg, Ireland, Vancouver, and Baku, Azerbaijan. (Toronto and Vancouver also have a Trump Tower.)

On the website for the Trump Real Estate Collection, nine international properties are listed, including two Trump Towers in India and one in Istanbul, another in Uruguay and another in the Philippines, as well as a Trump World in South Korea, among others."............. More

"Trumps necessity to donate to various political entities lies in is need to be able to build projects in the USA"

This is something that hasn't been discussed-either by design or by getting lost in the fog of an election year. Trump has been on the receiving side of kleptocrats with their hands out to get anything done I'm sure. It's a shame businesses have to operate that way in the US. Not as bad as other countries (See: China) but we're on our way. Now imagine for a moment that Trump sees this as a problem, knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and the kleptocrats know this. If you were among that latter group, wouldn't you be concerned about such a person becoming President who instructs his AG to zealously go after the guilty parties?