Mar-a-Lago diplomacy: Trump to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at his private golf club
The president is bringing yet another foreign leader to his country club for rich people
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President Donald Trump may be adding a new conflict of interest to the ones he has already accumulated regarding the nation of China — namely, his reported decision to host a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump is planning a key meeting between himself and the Chinese leader at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Axios is reporting, with “tentative dates” set for April 6-7. The summit is intended to diffuse tensions between the two countries on a number of geopolitical and economic issues.
Reuters could not verify Axios’ reporting.
In February, President Barack Obama’s chief ethics czar Norm Eisen told The Washington Post that “we’ve had a lot of presidents who hosted foreign leaders away from the White House, but we’ve never in history had one do it in a place where he’s selling memberships for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop. Trump just could not resist the opportunity to make an infomercial for his property. He’s worked hard all his life to generate free media. Now he’s hit the mother lode, and he’s not going to stop.”