House committee seeks financial records for Trump's Washington hotel

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House committee seeks financial records for Trump’s Washington hotel

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House committee seeks financial records for Trump’s Washington hotel

By Jonathan O'Connell and David A. Fahrenthold
March 16, 2021 at 6:23 p.m. EDT

A House committee on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to provide detailed financial records on former president Donald Trump’s Washington hotel — which is located in a federally owned building and must give the government financial data as part of its lease.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees public buildings, first asked for records on the hotel in early 2019. But for two years — while Trump’s administration was the Trump International Hotel’s landlord — the government refused to hand them over.

[Read the letter: House Committee asks for financial records on Trump’s D.C. Hotel]

Now, the committee has asked Biden’s administration to provide what Trump’s would not, including detailed records on the hotel’s revenue, expenses, profits and losses.

Those records, if made public, would reveal the inner workings of a hotel that became an icon of Trump’s era — a place where the sitting president’s company could be paid by foreign governments, Republican allies and companies with business before the Trump administration.

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Jonathan O'Connell
Jonathan O'Connell is a reporter focused on business investigations and corporate accountability. He has covered economic development, commercial real estate and President Donald Trump's business. He joined The Post in 2010. Follow https://twitter.com/jocwapo

David Fahrenthold
David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police. Follow https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

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1. OTHERWISE known as The Old PostOffice Pavilion.

The Old Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, is located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It is a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. Wikipedia

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2. When I read this in the WP this morning.....

it got me thinking about ALL of the requests for information that were sent to IQ45's mis-administration - and continuously denied.
Just a steady stream of "NO! NO! NO!" and basically "GO F**K YOURSELVES" to the part of the government that is responsible for checks and balances/oversight of the 'Executive' branch of our government.

"LAW & ORDER" - yeah, right.