Can the Trump separate their political and financial interests?
It has not been easy the first days as President of the United States for Donald Trump and the recent controversy unleashed by Eric Trump's commented trip to Uruguay seems to revive the debate as to whether the presidential family can separate their economic and political interests.
During his campaign for the presidency, the question is whether Trump would take advantage of his position in the White House to give a boost to his real estate empire was always a constant, to which the magante repeatedly said that it would not be so.
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But it seems that the reality is very different from what the president assured in his career for the Oval Office, since his intervention in the dispute of his daughter Ivanka Trump with Nordstrom stores and the criticized business trip to Uruguay that made his Son would be clear examples of how difficult it will be for the president to completely disassociate himself from his life as an entrepreneur.
As the Washington Post revealed a few days ago, Eric's trip would have cost US taxpayers at least $ 97,830, value of secret service housing and embassy officials who accompanied Trump to the city of Punta del Este.
The presidential family empire has many interests in the Uruguayan city, since they are in the middle of the construction of a luxurious tower of apartments in front of the beach and that of course takes like name the emblematic surname of the family in golden letters.
In remarks given to CNN Español by journalist El PaÃs Marcelo Gallardo, the price of the square meter of the building would have increased by 30% of its initial cost after Trump became the first president of the United States.
According to The Washington Post, this has been a clear example of how it will be almost impossible for the president's family to keep their businesses separate from their political role. Adding further that on this occasion, government agencies were forced to pay for operating expenses of their businesses and in the end "help make the president richer."
$ 88,320 would have been the total paid by the members of the secret service, adding $ 9,510 for the cost of accommodation for members of the Uruguayan embassy who moved to the popular South American resort.
The main objective of Eric's trip, which would have occurred in the early days of 2017, was to boost among investors of his family's new project in Uruguay.
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