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The Trump Organization is most certainly still doing deals outside the US,

and that involves engagement with foreign governments for things tied to development.

A couple examples from the first article that popped up on Google (linked WaPo article):

"The Trump Organization last month received approval to build 550 houses and a second golf course in Balmedie, a village on the northeastern Scottish coast...

"The Trumps also have pursued existing business in countries such as India and Uruguay, and some experts say it blurs the line between the U.S. government and the Trump Organization’s finances.

"The Indonesian government is helping to build a new highway that would facilitate access to Trump Residences Lido, a golf course, hotel and 280-home residential community that Tanoesoedibjo is developing with Trump. In Scotland, the Aberdeenshire Council voted to drop a requirement that the Trump Organization make other investments in the Balmedie resort before building the 550 planned homes. (“It is a much, much more lucrative deal now,” a council member said afterward.)"

There are plenty of other examples. You could semantics your way around a number of them to say, for example, that reviving talks for a deal in the Domincan Republic that had been dead since 2007 isn't technically "new," but you're kidding yourself if you believe they actually stopped expanding internationally after the election.
[Post edited by 00 Hoo at 12/05/2019 7:12PM]

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Link: WaPo

Posted: 12/05/2019 at 7:11PM

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