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Trump is quietly engineering a comeback for his DC hotel — on the cheap
The Hotel as a Governing ModelPower Sits With the Buyer Who Writes the RulesThe reporting centers on a familiar Washington trick: assets sold off by the state, then quietly steered back toward the same political network that benefits from them. The immediate target is the Old Post Office, but the larger story is not architecture. It is control. Donald Trump holds the institutional power of the presidency, and that power appears to be creating conditions for a private re-acquisition of a public-facing asset at a discount.That is the relevant fact pattern. The federal government, through the…
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