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Trump, Inc.

Mongolia

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2019, Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Mongolia. On Instagram, he wrote "Guys I'm back after living the Yurt Life...We covered many miles on horseback and 4WD...Truly one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen." He didn't mention the fact that he shot and killed an endangered argali sheep. Or that the Mongolian government issued him a hunting permit after the shoot. We learned that in many respects, Trump Jr.'s visit blurred the lines between private citizen and diplomacy. Trump Jr. even had a meeting with the Mongolian President.

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Following the three eldest Trump kids, Don Jr. Ivanka and Eric will take you around the

0:18.3

world. Florida, Indonesia, India, Panama, Moscow. But I would not ever have guessed Donald

0:27.0

Trump Jr. would lead us here by on Olgi Prophets, Western Mongolia. If you drive it will

0:34.4

take you at least three days to get there by car. Anand Tamertigo is a journalist based

0:41.6

in Mongolia's capital, Olin Botter. How did you go? I flew. It was a four hour flight.

0:49.6

After the flight, a land cruiser. My guide, my driver, he was asking around and we found

0:55.1

a cottage where there was slurring horses for the winter. In Mongolia, horses are for

1:00.6

riding and they're for meat. And I entered a shed and it was just one very statuesque man

1:08.1

and just carrying through meat. I was a little terrified but when I heard his voice I was calm.

1:14.8

And when Anand arrived, three months after Don Jr., he found the first sun's tracks were

1:20.6

still clearly visible. So I recorded conversations with the scouts. So one of the scouts, I can't

1:28.3

remember his name. Hondik? Yes, Hondik. I think he was the guy who was in the picture who

1:33.9

was holding Don from Jr.'s horse. It's public knowledge that Don Jr. took a trip here

1:40.3

last summer. He Instagrammed it. What's not public knowledge, what our reporters learned,

1:46.3

is that he was hunting and the Mongolian government treated Don Jr. differently from other

1:51.8

big game hunters. It rolled out the red carpet, gave him an entourage, a meeting with the

1:57.6

president, and a thing of value, a hunting permit, one of only three available in this hunting

2:05.0

region. We want to know where the rules both in Mongolia and the United States followed.

2:11.5

Did the taxpayer in Mongolia or the United States are in both places?

2:15.4

Did the bill for any portion of this trip? Did Don Trump Jr. get special treatment that

2:23.1

another Western trophy hunter wouldn't get? Was everything done ethically, pursuant to

2:30.6

the rules? And if not, why not? And who's responsible? And above all? And what happened

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