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CHUTZPAH?

In India, conducting family business, Donald Trump Jr. said that any talk of his family profiting from his father's presidency is “nonsense." He is totally oblivious to the fact that ethical concerns about using the name of the American president to promote international business ventures are rampant.

Junior is in India specifically to meet promoters and buyers of Trump-brand luxury homes in the country. He says his family is actually missing out on business opportunities because his father pledged to conduct no new foreign business while he was in office. Even though proof exists that this is a lie, h persists in relaying the falsehood. 

Junior says people forget about "the opportunity cost of the deals that we were not able to do.” Asked, “Like what? He had no comment.

"It's sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that ... for doing the right thing," he added.

For at least a week before he even arrived in India, major Indian newspapers carried glossy, front-page advertisements with the statement, "Trump has arrived. Have you?”

Ads prominently promised that buyers who order apartments in a new Trump-brand luxury real estate development in a suburb of the Indian capital by Thursday will get "a conversation and dinner" with Trump Jr. a day later. Why would anyone want to meet with Junior? Access.

He will be visiting and promote Trump-business in all the Trump-brand projects across four Indian cities. Only news organizations chosen by his team have had access to him. None mainstream. 


Despite promises by his father, the Trump Organization has licensing agreements with all its Indian business partners. They build the properties and acquire the Trump name in exchange for a fee. With five projects in India, the country is the brand's largest market outside the United States. Amey added that several foreign deals touted by the president's two adult sons have "stretched the definition of what ventures were previously in the works, (before Donald Trump became president).”

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