administration to extradite a cleric turkey wants who was living in the united states. and those are just some of the deals. there are many more. most of these business deals are with foreign heavy hitters and with the president refusing to divest ownership of any of his businesses, some experts argue they are potential violations of the emaulments clause of the constitution prohibiting the president from xep p accepting payments or anything of economic value to foreign governments. in fact, we re going to have one of those experts on next. she said something that really struck me, because i ve been traveling the world for a listening for quite some time, and lately, i m hearing what she s hearing. what s distressing to me is people laughing at us. they re laughing at us. . and the united states postal service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things
[ applause ] reporter: a billionaire with sharp elbows and political ambitions. ricardo martinelli a perfect match for donald trump. i want to just thank you very much for being here today, and you re my friend. [ applause ] great honor. reporter: and martinelli was first to realize his political ambition two one by the time the trump ocean club opened in 2011. he was president of panama. his very presence sent a message. this was a well-connected project. martinelli liked to mention every time that he has a very good business relation with trump. reporter: law professor miguel antonio is an opposition member and outspoken critic of martinelli saying the trump building could not have opened its doors without the blessing of the president. did martinelli help get this building off the ground? sure. because panama, you can do this kind of thing without the
that got us wondering is that a fair suggestion? so we decided to look at all of the countries we could find which the trump organization considered as possible locations to expand into and run them against the annual ratings published by transparency international. a well-respected anti-corruption campaign group. the results are pretty telling. take a look at this. out of all the countries where the president has explored or closed deals, more than half are in countries that get a score below 50. that s out of 100. in school we used to call that a fail. take azerbaijan, one of the most corrupt places on earth, transparency international gives it just 30 points. the philippines doesn t do much better coming in at 35. argentina and indonesia, scored just a little better at 36 and 37 respectively and the country we re in panama gets 38 points. compare that with our own national average. which stands at 74 out of 100.
reporter: being a criminal. yeah. reporter: what do you think about the kind of business trump was lending his name to? i m not trying to protect him, but he is not the one that s doing all of this. he simply has a name. a corporation. that s what it is. reporter: do you think people should be judged by the company they keep and the businesses they run? erch definitely. 100%. if i was somebody like trump i d do a background check and want to know who they buy their underwear from. so there isn t any connection to any form of crime. reporter: as a former money launderer, the trump ocean club. how would you trait? in its quality? for money laundering? oh i d say aaa. reporter: there is no suggestion that the president or his family were directly involved in any of the illegal activity it that went on here. as we said, they were just licensing out the trump brand. and initially managing the building. it s just that this building was
his name. reporter: the name of the most famous man in real estate also the building salesman in chief. one of the great things about panama, not only the beautiful building but incredible views. the name trump was magic. and he came down. donald trump came down. he has a great presence. he s a fabulous marketing person. reporter: but according to ventura, it was ivanka trump who handled all the details. what kinds of things did ivanka do? meeting with the architects, deciding the the finishings of the project. and the prices. when is going to be released. when it not going to be released it. everything they did with the project, because according to the contract, trump organization has to approve everything, because his name on the project anyway. reporter: sounds like the trump organization, specifically ivanka, was deeply involved? yes. she was the person responsibility for the project. reporter: ventura, had a