They both can't be Fredo, can they? Junior and Eric

[fraurosena]

I wonder what kind of sneaky deals they brokered while they were there? What promises were made, and in exchange for what political favor?

Eric & Donald Trump Jr. Went To A Wedding In Dubai — And You Helped Pay For The Trip

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The Trump family has long jet set around the world to open skyscrapers, schmooze with the top 1 percent, and yes, attend weddings. But now that hits not just their pocketbook, but the American people's, too. Eric and Donald Trump went to a Dubai wedding, and the price tag for taxpayers was $73,000, CBS News reported. The government did not pay for their trip, but purchase orders from the United States Secret Service agents show that's how much their security cost.

The trip, according to the agents' purchase orders, was from March 26 through April 8, and the main costs were hotel rooms close to the Trump property and car service in the country.

Secret Service spokesperson Mason Brayman told CBS News in an email that they were operating in the area but didn't comment on any specifics. "The Secret Service is conducting a protective operation in the UAE," Brayman wrote to CBS News. "As a matter of practice we do not comment on the specifics of protectee's trips."

The Trump Organization did comment on the trip and wedding. A spokesperson for the confirmed to CNN that the brothers would be in United Arab Emirates. The spokesperson said:

On this visit, they will be spending time with the Sajwani Family, the incredible developers behind DAMAC properties and will be visiting the team at Trump International Golf Club, Dubai which opened to rave reviews in February 2017. Don Jr. & Eric will also be checking in on the progress of the Trump World Golf Club, Dubai, a Tiger Woods design that is currently under construction.

 

The visit was also confirmed by Hussain Sajwani's Twitter posts, Eric Trump's Twitter posts, and Lara Trump's Instagram. Lara is married to Eric. Sajwani posted a picture with both Trump brothers and said that he was delighted to host his "dear friends and business partners" during a "very special occasion in [his] family's life." His daughter Amira is getting married.

Eric focused on the Trump property that he visited, tagging Trump International Golf Club, Dubai. He posted two photos and noted, "Always great visiting our team."

Lara Trump's Instagram post featured her and another guest, seemingly at the wedding. She wrote the hashtag #greatminds as the commentary, seemingly a comment on her and the other guest's clothing, which was similar in color.

[instagram pic of them wearing the same skirt]

By former standards, this trip comes as quite the deal. The Secret Service ran through their 2017 allotment for protecting the president and his family by September. The agency asked for $60 million in additional funding to pay for protection of Trump, his family, and others from the administration in 2018.

Last year's annual ski vacation by the Trump family in Aspen, Colorado — not even an international destination — cost $300,000 in security costs. By comparison, Eric and Don Jr.'s trip was a steal.

Donald Trump's business partners in Dubai are working on developing at least two other Trump properties — even after he promised not to enter new deals while president. Trump had tweeted, “No new deals will be done during my term(s) in office." But the same family that his sons visited are developing luxury villas next to the current Trump golf club there, as well as another golf club, Arabian Business reported.

Sajwani remains close to Trump and has defended the president, even after Trump's anti-Muslim comments. "He had a strong brand — and no question in the last 12 months, his brand became stronger and more global," Sajwani told CNN Money in November 2016. "I think it will have a positive impact on sales. He's in no way discriminative. He doesn't discriminate against sex, religion, or anything else."

Given their business relationship, Eric and Don Jr.'s decision to attend the wedding makes sense. But thousands of tax payer dollars being spent may not.

 

[AnywhereButHere]

I just posted a video on the Michael Cohen thread of SNL's opening with Robert DeNiro as Robert Mueller giving a lie detector test to Michael Cohen. Towards the end "Cohen" asks what nickname theMueller team gave to Jr. and Eric.

"Mueller's" answer - The two Fredos. 

[onekidanddone]

2 hours ago, AnywhereButHere said:

I just posted a video on the Michael Cohen thread of SNL's opening with Robert DeNiro as Robert Mueller giving a lie detector test to Michael Cohen. Towards the end "Cohen" asks what nickname theMueller team gave to Jr. and Eric.

"Mueller's" answer - The two Fredos. 

You know what that means right? The writers of SNL read here!

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[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I know parents are supposed to think all their kids are good looking, but seriously? She also must be doing a tad bit of projecting here. Her ex husband had no trouble finding other wives, while she was stuck with three kids and is still single.

[candygirl200413]

Just asked my mom if she would say similar things about my twin brother and she was like absolutely not. Also like does she forget it takes two to tango?

[AmazonGrace]

https://pagesix.com/2018/04/21/ivana-trump-says-donald-should-just-go-and-play-golf/

Here's more from Ivana. She won't judge Jr for his affair because she wasn't there. She thinks Vanessa knew all along (doesn't she talk to Jr so she'd know for sure?). She left Donald because she has pride and dignity and stuff. She is sorry for Melania because Donald is a workaholic.  (Sure, Jan.) Donald offered her an ambassadorship. She dislikes her grandkids' names.

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“I don’t really say a single woman should go [to Palm Beach] because the wives are very jealous and they grab their husbands. They think somebody is going to steal them,” she said. “So I got a little bit bored in Palm Beach.”

 

[JMarie]

Vanessa isn't raising five kids.  She has five kids, yes, but she isn't raising them.  That's the job for nannies and the teachers at the kids' boarding schools.

[JMarie]

Isn't this something spouses should know about each other?  Good grief!

https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/05/01/donald-trump-jr-wants-to-know-estranged-wife-vanessas-net-worth/23424780/

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Donald Trump Jr. wants to know how much money his estranged wife, Vanessa, has in the bank.

A “defendant’s demand for statement of net worth” was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday.

Vanessa Trump, who married the President’s eldest son in 2005, filed for divorceon March 15. The circumstances behind their divorce remain unclear.

While the divorce is classified as “uncontested” in court filings — suggesting the split might be amicable — divorcing couples exchange information on their assets to determine, for example, child support payments.

Vanessa Trump, 40, and her estranged husband, 40, have five children.

 

[fraurosena]

It looks like it's going to be a very acrimonious divorce for Fredo-dumb and the Ill-thug.

 

[onekidanddone]

28 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

It looks like it's going to be a very acrimonious divorce for Fredo-dumb and the Ill-thug.

This has to be the Onion. Right? Please?

[GreyhoundFan]

"Were there any countries Donald Trump Jr. didn’t meet with?"

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Investigators looking into President Trump and his top associates’ dealing with foreign governments have an embarrassment of riches. For Americans, Trump is simply an embarrassment — and a figure increasingly seen as indifferent to foreign interference in our election.

The New York Times reported:

Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.

The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team, and it forged relationships between the men and Trump insiders that would develop over the coming months — past the election and well into President Trump’s first year in office, according to several people with knowledge of their encounters.

Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.

We have no evidence at this point that Zamel was acting with his government’s approval or knowledge.

Once again we see Donald Trump Jr. allegedly seeking assistance from foreign governments to affect the U.S. presidential election. It is not only illegal to solicit such assistance, but it is, let’s be blunt, a betrayal of America. In our democracy Americans elect their leaders. Trump Jr. either knew what he was doing was wrong and chose to proceed anyway, or he had no clue it wasn’t appropriate to let Russians and Gulf States help elect his father — and gain leverage to be cashed in later. (Donald Trump Jr. did not need to know it was a crime, only that these were foreign governments and foreign individuals offering help to influence an election.)

The anecdote does suggest that the Russia secret meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016 was not an isolated event.

“I would also like to find out if there was this other pattern — if the Times story is accurate and there is this pattern that other countries were offering, and, clearly, the Trump campaign was receptive to these kinds of offers,” Sen. Mark R. Warner (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Sunday. On a separate “Face the Nation” appearance, he noted that “what is remarkable to me is that the president somehow seems not to understand that, when a foreign nation tries to interfere in our elections, that’s wrong. That’s illegal. The validity of the two Arab nations potentially intervening, time will tell how much truth there is there.”

Depending on the facts, Donald Trump Jr. may have serious legal problems; the question for President Trump remains whether he was kept entirely in the dark. However, if you want “collusion” with foreign governments, you’ve got plenty to work with based on public reporting.

Trump, maybe getting a wee bit sensitive to the fact that getting help from foreign governments to win is politically and possibly legally disastrous, jumped on Twitter on Sunday with a series of especially unhinged rants calling the New York Times article “boring,” attacking Hillary Clinton, denying “Collussion,” hollering “Witch Hunt,” and so on. Oh, and he objects to the cost. (Maybe cut down on the constant trips to his properties, if we’re going to get cost-conscious all of a sudden?)

In sum, “collusion” isn’t a legal term, and increasingly it’s a misleading one. Asking a foreign government to help sway an election is wrong and illegal. Trump’s best defense is that his son is dull-witted but also smart enough not to bring his father’s attention to grossly inappropriate meetings.

 

[fraurosena]

Oh please, deer Rufus, make this happen! 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

If Trump starts ragetweeting about book publishing industry this is why 

 

[AmazonGrace]

If you're not for our Nazi policies you're against us: 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Donald Trump Jr. has been known by more than a few titles over the years: executive vice president of development for The Trump Organization, father, boardroom advisor on The Apprentice and, now, First Son. But according to Vanity Fair senior reporter Emily Jane Fox’s new book, Born Trump, the president’s eldest son was once known by a lesser-known moniker, bestowed on him during his college years: “Diaper Don.”

While an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Trump Jr. reportedly earned a reputation around campus for his rowdy, inebriated habits — notably, passing out in his classmates’ rooms, and wetting their beds.

“Diaper Don would wake up in some stranger’s dorm room or off-campus apartment or bedroom in his frat house, covered in  piss, walk back to his own room, and get blitzed that evening or the next anew,” Fox writes.

 

The young Trump’s rambunctious reputation only intensified on a spring break trip to Jamaica amid March Madness frenzy, Fox writes. Drunk and bitter over a basketball loss to Florida State, Trump Jr. stood up on a table and chanted to Florida students, “That’s all right! That’s okay! You’re gonna work for us someday.”

“These were kids from state school,” one Penn student at the bar that day recalled to Fox. “The subtext wasn’t hard for anyone to  figure out.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr. refutes these details from the book, telling PEOPLE: “Both of these ‘claims’ are simply false. Don, who is now 40 years old, would be the first to admit that he enjoyed college, that said, both of these stories just aren’t true.”

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The book, which explores the upbringing of President Trump‘s five children with three wives, also describes Trump Jr., 40, as being later known as a cheapskate. When his eldest child Kai’s all-girl Manhattan private school, Spence, was planning a parent fundraiser to build a gymnasium, Trump Jr. balked, the book describes:

” ‘I think this sounds great,’ he said loudly enough for the other parents to distinctly remember it years later. Kai loved sports, he told the group, and so he could see her benefitting from the addition. … ‘I mean, we’re not going to give money,’ he said in front of the group. ‘But I am more than happy to lend my expertise to the building process.’ The rest of the parents turned beet red.”

Trump Jr. does not deny his history of drinking in college and for some years after graduation. “To be fairly candid, I used to drink a lot and party pretty hard,” he admitted in a 2004 interview with New York magazine. “And it wasn’t something that I was particularly good at. I mean, I was good at it, but I couldn’t do it in moderation.”

A friend who went to frat parties with Trump Jr. also told PEOPLE last year that, in college: “Everyone was warned to stay away from Donnie Trump.”

Trump Jr. has said he’s been sober since 2002. And this past weekend the father of five spent the holiday weekend playing golf with his children.

It started off all nice and friendly then the bottom fell out!!! Only my little monsters will turn a great fam pic into a wrestling match  We had an awesome Father’s Day. #fathersday #family #weekend #familytime #wrestling pic.twitter.com/T0zl5HC4fz

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 17, 2018

It was his first Father’s Day as a single dad, since estranged wife Vanessa filed for divorce in March. But the pair have remained friendly, and Vanessa wished him well on Sunday.

“Happy Father’s Day times 5 @DonaldJTrumpJR,” she wrote on Twitter, alongside a photograph of the 40-year-old smiling with their five children together: Kai Madison, 11, Donald III, 9, Tristan, 6, Spencer, 5, and Chloe, 4.

Born Trump is on sale Tuesday.

 

https://people.com/politics/diaper-donald-trump-jr-new-book/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag&utm_campaign=peoplemagazine

 

If Jr is Diaper Donny too, how will I keep them apart? 

[Audrey2]

3 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Drunk and bitter over a basketball loss to Florida State, Trump Jr. stood up on a table and chanted to Florida students, “That’s all right! That’s okay! You’re gonna work for us someday.”

“These were kids from state school,” one Penn student at the bar that day recalled to Fox. “The subtext wasn’t hard for anyone to  figure out.”

Oops- I went to a well-regarded state university (not Michigan, but also rated very highly), and we used to chant that at football games when we lost (and a bit worse).

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

[AmazonGrace]

 Don Jr has his father's lies

[GreyhoundFan]