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Botany

(77,413 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:02 AM 19 hrs ago

A Trump branded property was built in the 2010s to launder money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

The New Yorker 2017:
Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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The building was built and then torn down in parts and rebuilt in order to keep the money laundering
machine going.

Explain to me again about Trump’s war on the Iranians?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal


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A Trump branded property was built in the 2010s to launder money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard. (Original Post) Botany 19 hrs ago OP
Trump just goes where the money is. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #1
TSF will be spending his money in Hell pretty soon I hope... wcmagumba 19 hrs ago #2
as long as a project is never finished, it's a money launderers paradise. nt Javaman 19 hrs ago #3
Yup! Botany 18 hrs ago #4
. dalton99a 18 hrs ago #5

Botany

(77,413 posts)
4. Yup!
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:46 AM
18 hrs ago

How many times can you sell the same brick pavers for the walkways?

Buy ‘em. Lay them. Pick them along with the sand and gravel base up, Haul those materials
away. Have bids go out to build paver walkways. Rinse, lather, and repeat. And take 15%
off the top for every step and reuse and resale the same materials whenever is possible.

Grifting it is what Trump’s do.

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