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Trump, Inc.

How a Nigerian Presidential Candidate Hired a Trump Lobbyist and Ended Up in Trump’s Lobby

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

Don, Trump, News, Business, Jared, Ivanka, Jr, Politics, Business News, Government, Eric

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We spent a night at President Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C. — and we met lots of interesting people.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A quick heads up before we get started.

0:02.0

This episode contains cursing.

0:06.5

Oh, what are we looking at?

0:08.0

I don't know.

0:09.0

I'm just putting in the big up the entrance way with the...

0:11.0

So, I'm at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

0:15.0

People watching with my new friend, Zach Everson,

0:19.0

when a large group appears at the check-in desk.

0:22.0

The managing director is scored if I'm in there.

0:24.0

Somebody is recording it, videoing it.

0:28.0

I have no idea who this could be.

0:30.0

Zach's a food and travel journalist,

0:32.0

who now writes a daily email newsletter called 1100 Pennsylvania.

0:36.0

That's the address here.

0:38.0

It is to Trump's Washington, what Tatler was to 18th century London.

0:42.0

A gossipy, running account of famous people in a famous place.

0:47.0

Clearly, they're all stopping to get their picture taken.

0:50.0

And we have one, two, three, four cameras out there taking pictures of what's happening.

0:55.0

Clearly, we're looking at someone, but who is this?

0:59.0

They actually have a manager of the hotel, a manager of the restaurant.

1:02.0

And it's one of those guys behind them as well.

1:04.0

So, they are getting me the grand entrance.

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