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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4229238" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Yeah. But if Trump had, Erdogan might have removed his name from the Trump towers in Istanbul, sooooo....</p><p></p><p>I know, Mother Jones. But Trump does receive royalties for the use of his name. It's in his own financial disclosures: </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/reminder-trump-has-a-massive-conflict-of-interest-in-turkey/" target="_blank">Reminder: Trump has a massive conflict of interest in Turkey</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p>"Trump’s policy toward Turkey is also a significant conflict of interest, as Trump himself has admitted. In 2015, while running for president, Trump gave an interview to Stephen Bannon, not yet his campaign manager, in which he talked about Turkey. Right away, he admitted that his business interests in the country would make it difficult for him to deal with Turkey with a clear mind.</p><p></p><p>“I have a little conflict of interest ’cause I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/donald-trump-i-have-little-conflict-interest-turkey/" target="_blank">told</a> Bannon during a <em>Breitbart </em>radio show. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers—two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two.”</p><p></p><p>Those Trump Towers are a pair of glass buildings in Istanbul that have borne Trump’s name since 2012. Trump doesn’t own the buildings—the situation might be less complicated if he did. Instead, Trump licenses his brand to the building’s actual owner, Turkish business magnate Aydin Dogan, who has been described as the single largest payer of taxes in Turkey. He’s a one-time antagonist of Erdogan who is now in step with the strongman.</p><p></p><p>The conflict of interest and the way it could affect Trump’s position on important issues—or at least the perception of how it could affect his position—quickly became obvious after Trump made this comment. In June 2016, after Trump said he supported a ban on immigration by people from countries he said were associated with Islamic terrorism—he called them “terror countries”—Erdogan objected, and so did Dogan, and both <a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/25/472171/erdogan-trump-tower-istanbul" target="_blank">threatened to remove</a> Trump’s name from the buildings.</p><p></p><p>That’s no small threat—according to personal financial disclosures filed by Trump, since he launched his bid for the presidency, he has earned somewhere between $3.2 million and $17 million in royalties from the deal. (The amounts are given in ranges; the precise figures are unclear.)"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4229238, member: 48469"] Yeah. But if Trump had, Erdogan might have removed his name from the Trump towers in Istanbul, sooooo.... I know, Mother Jones. But Trump does receive royalties for the use of his name. It's in his own financial disclosures: [URL="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/reminder-trump-has-a-massive-conflict-of-interest-in-turkey/"]Reminder: Trump has a massive conflict of interest in Turkey[/URL] "Trump’s policy toward Turkey is also a significant conflict of interest, as Trump himself has admitted. In 2015, while running for president, Trump gave an interview to Stephen Bannon, not yet his campaign manager, in which he talked about Turkey. Right away, he admitted that his business interests in the country would make it difficult for him to deal with Turkey with a clear mind. “I have a little conflict of interest ’cause I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump [URL='https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/donald-trump-i-have-little-conflict-interest-turkey/']told[/URL] Bannon during a [I]Breitbart [/I]radio show. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers—two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two.” Those Trump Towers are a pair of glass buildings in Istanbul that have borne Trump’s name since 2012. Trump doesn’t own the buildings—the situation might be less complicated if he did. Instead, Trump licenses his brand to the building’s actual owner, Turkish business magnate Aydin Dogan, who has been described as the single largest payer of taxes in Turkey. He’s a one-time antagonist of Erdogan who is now in step with the strongman. The conflict of interest and the way it could affect Trump’s position on important issues—or at least the perception of how it could affect his position—quickly became obvious after Trump made this comment. In June 2016, after Trump said he supported a ban on immigration by people from countries he said were associated with Islamic terrorism—he called them “terror countries”—Erdogan objected, and so did Dogan, and both [URL='https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/25/472171/erdogan-trump-tower-istanbul']threatened to remove[/URL] Trump’s name from the buildings. That’s no small threat—according to personal financial disclosures filed by Trump, since he launched his bid for the presidency, he has earned somewhere between $3.2 million and $17 million in royalties from the deal. (The amounts are given in ranges; the precise figures are unclear.)" [/QUOTE]
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