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Olympics scheming with Trump to host golf tournament at one of his courses

The White House as a Booking Agent for Trump’s Private CourseThe SetupPolitico’s reporting is simple enough: LA28 is discussing a pre-Olympics pro-am golf event at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles, with the Trump administration in the loop. The detail that matters is not the ceremony around it. It is that a president is once again using a public event with federal dependencies to route prestige, access, and likely money toward his own property.Where the Power SitsThe institutional power here is not with LA28, and not with the anonymous “sports bodies” politely orbiting the story. The real…

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