Ethics issues arise as Trump deepens his Middle East ties: ‘When he leaves the White House, the company is worth more, his personal wealth goes up’

WASHINGTON (AP) – It is not only a “gesture” of a luxury plane of $ 400 million saying President Donald Trump is intelligent to accept it from Qatar. Or that he was effectively sold from the first destination on his first major foreign trip, heading to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia because the Kingdom was ready to make significant investments in American companies.

Not even that the Trump family has fast -growing commercial links in the Middle East that works deeply and provides vast profit capabilities.

Instead, it is the idea that a mixture of these things and more – deals that show the close relations between the family that oversees its patriarch on the American government and a region whose leaders are fond of Carrie through money and luxury gifts – may cause the United States to show preference treatment for Middle East leaders when it comes to American affairs of the state.

Before Trump started his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, his sons Eric and Donald Junior have already traveled to the Middle East on a large scale in recent weeks. They were cooking in Trump, which they managed in the position of their father while he was in the White House.

Eric Trump has announced plans for Trump from 80 floors in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. Also attended by a recently encrypted currency conference with Zak Witkeov, the founder of the Trump family, World Liberty Financial, and the son of Trump’s envoy everything to the Middle East, Steve Witkeov.

“We are proud to expand our presence in the region,” said Eric Trump last month, declaring that the Trump Tower Dubai is scheduled to start this fall.

The presidential visit to the region, where his children in the same part of the world work for the opportunities to make money for the family, lights up on Trump’s willingness to adopt foreign deals while in the White House, even in the face of the increasing fears that can give him to constitute an foreign policy in ways that benefit his family.

There is no possible overlap more widespread than in the Middle East

The Trump family’s interests in the region include a new deal to build a luxurious golf resort in Qatar, a partnership with Qatar Diyar, a real estate company supported by the sovereign wealth fund in that country. The family also rents its commercial brand for two new real estate projects in Rayyada, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in partnership with Dar Global, a Luxurious real estate developer based in London and a company affiliated with the Saudi Real Real Estate Company, Al Arkan.

Likewise, Trump has a partnership with Dar Global on Trump Tower is scheduled to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the upcoming Trump International Hotel has developed and the development of luxurious golf in neighboring Amman.

During the Crypto Conference, an investment company supported by the state in Abu Dhabi announced that it has chosen the US dollar, the global Stablecoin, Liberty Financial, to support $ 2 billion in investment in Binance, the largest cryptocurrency in the world. Critics say this allows the interests of the Trump family to reduce every invested dollar.

“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said when the journalists asked him about the deal on Wednesday.

Then there is a LIV GOLF game supported by the Saudi government, which drafted close commercial relations with the president and hosted the tournaments in the Dual’s Trump Resort in South Florida.

“Given the extensive relations between Golf Lev and PIF, or between Trump’s institutions in general and the Gulf, I say that there is a flagrant conflict in the interests here,” said John Hoffman, a fellow researcher in defense and foreign policy in the liberation intellectual tank at the Kato Institute. He was referring to the Public Investment Fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which invested extensively in everything from global sports giants to the Nintendo video maker with the aim of diversifying the Kingdom’s economy beyond oil.

Trump said he did not talk about Golf Lev during his visit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In January, the President announced an investment of $ 20 billion to the American data centers promised by the DAMAC Properties, an Emirati company led by the Dubai Dubai Dubai developer, Hussein Sajwani. Trump provides bills that taking advantage of the technological and economic situation in the country instead of his family business. But Sajwani was a commercial partner close to Trump and his family long ago before the 2016 elections.

White House hairs in conflicting interests of concerns

Before leaving to the Middle East was asked if Trump might use the trip to meet people linked to his family’s work, White House press secretary Caroline Levit said he was “absurd” that “he indicates that President Trump does anything for his own benefit.”

She said: “The president is committed to all laws of conflict of interest.”

Administration officials cleaned such concerns about the president’s decisions that are bleeding in his family’s commercial interests by noting that Trump’s origins are in a fund managed by his children. It prevents the voluntary ethics agreement issued by the Trump company from the company from amazing deals directly with foreign governments.

But this same agreement still allows deals with private companies abroad. In Trump’s first state, the organization issued an ethical agreement prohibiting deals with both foreign governments and foreign companies.

The president, according to the second ethics agreement, does not participate in any daily decisions of family business. But political brands and companies are still closely related.

Levitt said: “The president is a successful businessman, and I think, frankly, that he is one of the many reasons that people have returned to return to this office.”

Timothy B. said. Carney, an older colleague at the American Conservative Institute for Institutions, does not want to see foreign policy to us affected by Trump’s feelings on how to deal with other countries of his family’s work.

“Even if he does not run the company, it benefits from the company working well,” Carney said. “When the White House leaves, the company deserves more, its personal wealth rises.”

Our promises to invest in Trump’s trip

Regardless of his family work, the president was not shy of saying that he would constitute the itinerary of the first trip extending abroad on Quid Pro Quo.

Trump was the first leg of Saudi Arabia, just as it was during his first term. He chose the destination after he said that the Kingdom pledged 1 trillion dollars to US companies over the past four years. The White House has since announced that the actual number is $ 600 billion. How much will this actually be a new investment – or yield – it still must be seen.

The president is also heading to the United Arab Emirates, which has pledged $ 1.4 trillion in US investments over the next ten years, and Boeing and Geospace announced a $ 96 billion deal while in Qatar on Wednesday, which will witness that state-owned ARLINE gets up to 210 America-Made Aircraft.

Meanwhile, Trump says, accepting the Boeing 747 plane’s gift from the ruling family is not thinking, and rejects the security and moral concerns raised by Democrats and even some conservatives.

Trump’s relations in the Middle East precede his presidency

The first commercial battle for Trump in the Middle East came in 2005, during his second year of the “trainee” championship. The Trump Tower Project in Dubai was depicted as a lavender hotel to float on the island of the city made of a palm tree.

It was never achieved.

Instead, February 2017 witnessed the opening of the Trump International Golf Club Dubai, with Damac’s characteristics from Sajwani. Just one month ago, Trump said that Sagawi tried to make a deal with him two billion dollars, “I refused it.”

Trump said at the time: “I had no refusal, because as you know, I have a position without strictly because I am a president,” Trump said at the time.

In January, there was a cheerful Sajwani standing by the Trump team in Mart R Lago, Florida, to announce DAMAC’s investment in American databases.

“It was great news for me and my family when he was elected in November,” Sajwani said. “Over the past four years, we have been waiting for this moment.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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2025-05-14 17:45:00