The White House has announced that it will vastly expand the East Wing to include a massive new ballroom. The 'exquisite addition' is slated to cost $200 million from private donors, and will begin construction in September 2025
Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.
That’s who built it in the first place. Trump is accidentally following an historical precedent.
Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.