a new FBI building in the middle of discussing the pandemic. People scratched their heads. There didn't seem to be a connection even for this muddle headed prez.

Now burried inside the G.O.P. bargaining position for the next relief act is $2,000,000,000.00 for a new FBI building.

We know why.


Trump’s owns a hotel a block down Pennsylvania Avenue. Before Trump was elected, officials at his company raised concerns about a competing hotel possibly being built in place of the Hoover Building should the FBI relocate to the suburbs.

White House officials have denied that Trump’s business interests have anything to do with his plans for the bureau’s new headquarters, and last year Trump’s company announced plans to sell the hotel’s lease. Those plans are on hold because of the economic fallout of the pandemic.

Concerns over Trump’s financial interests, however, prompted the Justice Department’s Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz to launch an investigation of the decision-making that led to the cancellation of the original plan. That investigation remains ongoing more than a year later, the inspector general’s office said Monday. A spokeswoman declined to comment further.

(In short, if the FBI moves to the suburbs as expected, Don's DC hotel is worth less) (I guess this time Nancy was wrong, this doesn't point to Putin)

Democrats were sharply critical of the White House’s demand. “They managed to have enough money for $2 billion for the FBI headquarters that benefits Trump hotel and they say they have no money for food assistance,” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). “What the heck is going on?”

When the White House first proposed inserting money on the FBI building in the legislation and conditioning it on keeping the headquarters in Washington, Republican lawmakers blocked it from being in the bill, people familiar with the discussions said. But White House officials persisted in demanding the money and it ended up back in the legislation.

Asked Monday what a new FBI building had to do with the novel coronavirus, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), a key negotiator of the stimulus package, paused and said, “Good question.”

(T)op Senate Republicans immediately began distancing themselves from the provision after it was made public, saying they weren’t sure why the White House repeatedly insisted on putting it in the bill.

Courtesy WaPo

The reader can almost hear the beeping back up horns. This garbage goes the way of Don's demand: NC allow a full convention, defund schools that don't open mid-August, & people are free to not wear masks.

Don Trump is the "most corrupt, inept president we have ever had." George Will

Tho we do prefer "he is a f^cking moron".

[Post edited by Lazarus at 07/28/2020 06:29AM]