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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, in The New Yorker, Adam Davidson wrote about Trump Tower Baku, a project in which the Trump Organization collaborated with corrupt Azerbaijani officials who had ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Adam Davidson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what the Baku deal reveals about how Trump does business abroad.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

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politics. It's Friday, March 10th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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The precise nature of Donald Trump's international business deals can be hard to pin down.

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After the election on January 11th, during a press conference to announce how, as president,

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he intended to avoid potential conflicts of interest with the Trump organization,

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he couldn't resist a quick aside.

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Over the weekend, I was offered $2 billion to do a deal in Dubai with a very, very, very

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amazing man, a great, great developer.

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And I turned it down.

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I didn't have to turn it down, because as you know, I have a no conflict situation because

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I'm president, which is, I didn't know about that until about

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three months ago, but it's a nice thing to have. But I don't want to take advantage of something.

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