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07/21/22 6:54 PM

#419562 RE: brooklyn13 #419543

Slum fix by developer. Residents to benefit. It's a common recurring theme from Netflix and other entertainment machines
these days. From the heading of your article to the end - yep - of the excerpt below that was the only image available.

How Donald Trump Jr. Promised—and Failed—to House the World’s Poor

He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them.


Illustration by Joe Gough

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations with support from the Wayne Barrett Project.

The Trump family is hardly known for its humanitarian impulses, but for a moment Donald Trump Jr. seemed like an exception. Back in 2010, Trump Jr. and his business partners made a surprising vow to build millions of units of prefabricated low-cost housing for some of the world’s poorest families and ship them to countries across the globe. The company also had what it marketed as a seemingly miraculous solution for helping to power the homes: Along with the housing kits, it would distribute small energy-producing wind turbines that could be affixed to their roofs.

What happened next offers a glimpse into how Don Jr. does business, a topic The New Republic and Type Investigations first investigated for a story last September .. https://newrepublic.com/article/163536/don-jr-charleston-real-estate-investigation . We wanted to learn more about former President Trump’s oldest child, who has become a hero to the Big Lie crowd. In that piece, we showed what happened when Don. Jr. and his partners promised to renovate a former naval hospital and to bring a Trump five-star hotel to the town of North Charleston, South Carolina. They left the hospital in a state of disrepair. The hotel was never built. The episode cost taxpayers at least $33 million, and Junior and his partners walked away with a profit. An electrician who witnessed rampant copper stripping told me the fiasco was at times like a “real-life Sopranos episode.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/166876/donald-trump-jr-titan-atlas-housing-poor

Why the fuck aren't Don Jr. and his partners in jail even just because of their South Carolina con. Looking forward to reading more. Thanks.