Judge Rules Trump s Chicago Hotel Is Putting Fish in Danger
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Donald Trump is a real jack of all noxious trades. It turns out that as he was rolling back environmental policies and overseeing an endless stream of noxious climate misinformation as president, one of our dear former leader’s hotels has also been ignoring clean water protections. A multi-faceted pollution king!
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An Illinois judge ruled that Trump International Hotel and Tower, a looming glass monstrosity on Chicago’s downtown riverfront owned and operated by the Trump Organization, violated state environmental laws by using water from the Chicago River to cool its air-conditioning systems without a permit, because of course it did.
Donald Trump s background in commercial real estate shaped his presidency in many ways, from his administration s policies to his visits to Trump properties.
his skyscraper in the financial district. and the other is the trump international hotel and tower, and he doesn t own most of that building anymore, but he does own some commercial seis there that he has a loan out on. all of these discrepancies occurred during refinances that he was taking out, refinancings. they were all with the same lender. so i guess my question is like this is the question of the era in some ways. how common is this? if you scratched a whole bunch of real estate developers in new york, would you see these discrepancies which essentially to me seem like gray area fraud if not outright illegal, or the people you talked to who looked at this, did they say like this is pretty this is skating pretty close to the line? you don t see this a lot? i mean obviously nobody is doing this on a wide kind of scale where we could get an idea of exactly how right and how wrong these numbers often were. but talking to professionals who work in this area and see this stuff