A few weeks ago, we got a tip from a listener.

It has to do with Donald Trump, U.S. Foreign Policy,

a disgraced hedge fund manager, and a casino on the other side of the globe,

the Grand Ho Trams Strip. We hired a reporter based in Vietnam to help us follow up on it.

Driving from Ho Chi Minh City to the Grand Ho Trams Strip, casino,

takes about two hours, two hours and a half depending on traffic conditions.

We can't tell you this reporter's name because Vietnam is a one-party communist state,

and the story we're about to tell is sensitive. Our reporter told us, once you leave Ho Chi Minh City behind,

the landscape is all agricultural.

You really can't tell you're heading towards a five-star resort.

It's really a typical Vietnamese countryside scenery. You have women in straw hats,

hurting buffaloes in rice fields. You have watermelon farms,

people selling watermelon and fruits on the side of the road.

So when you arrive and see these rather ungainly yellow towers,

overlooking the South China Sea, it just feels totally out of place.

The first thing you see when you enter the Grand Ho Trams Strip

is this huge fountain with a big dragon statue hanging over it.

There's American pop music playing on the speakers. The floor is half carpet, half marble.

You could really be anywhere. You could be in Las Vegas. You could be in Europe.

Our reporter told us the amenities are definitely upscale.

There's a movie theater, a nightclub, eight restaurants, a golf course that's apparently one

of the best in the world, but what really struck him is the customers. There are so few of them.

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