Hmmmmmm. Maybe they figure you ought to be smart enough to know without asking.In conversations with The Washington Post, the hotel’s management described its strategy to capitalize on the president’s popularity. It markets the hotel to Republican and conservative groups that embrace Trump’s politics but takes care not to solicit business from fringe groups that would embarrass the president.
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Trump, as titular leader of the Republican Party, has showcased the hotel as a destination of choice for GOP loyalists.
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Money [...] has poured in from other Republican political committees that have chosen the Trump hotel as a venue for receptions. The hotel has hosted events for Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) A Republican congressman from California. Rohrabacher is an early Trump supporter whom Politico recently dubbed "Putin’s favorite congressman." , Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania. Shuster also supported Trump's campaign. The committee he chairs has oversight over the GSA — the Trump hotel's landlord. and nine other Republican members of Congress, according to campaign spending disclosures.
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It is difficult to see comings and goings at the hotel. There are no signs in the lobby to direct guests to daily events, velvet ropes block the public from meeting areas, and some groups holding conventions and banquets omit references to Trump’s name in their promotional materials. Many decline to answer questions about why they chose the Trump hotel from the many similar luxury Washington venues.
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The Post spent part of every day in May in the hotel’s bars, restaurants and lobby. What reporters saw ranged from events hosted by foreign groups with policy priorities to Republican glitterati — Rudolph W. Guiliani Rudolph W. Giuliani Lobbyist and former New York City mayor. Giuliani spoke to two reporters at the hotel that night and assured them he was not a candidate to replace Comey. posing for selfies at the bar the night Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey; White House aide Omarosa Manigault conferring with the former producer of “The Apprentice”; former Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski Corey Lewandowski Former Trump campaign manager. Lewandowski stepped down from the lobbying firm he co-founded in early May. plopping into a black leather chair marked “Reserved”; then-press secretary Sean Spicer Sean Spicer Former White House press secretary. Spicer stepped aside from running the White House press briefing the day he was at the hotel, May 5, for Navy Reserve duty. scrolling through his phone on a plush blue sofa in the lobby.
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[A] light artist at nightfall project[ed] a protest message on the gray stone facade that read “Pay Trump Bribes Here.”
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No one has yet calculated how much taxpayer money is being spent at the hotel. A Texas newspaper is seeking records of state expenditures at the hotel.
h/t Jean
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