An
Argentinian journalist claims President-elect Trump called Argentine
President Maricio Macri to push his personal business agenda. Ben
Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, and Jimmy Dore, hosts of The Young Turks,
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"In
a phone call with Argentine President Mauricio Macri, President-elect
Donald Trump asked for help with permits for an office tower that bears
his name, an Argentine journalist alleged Sunday. Spokespeople for Macri
and Trump subsequently denied that allegation on Monday. But the
episode raises further questions about how the incoming U.S. president
will separate his business interests and his new political powers — if
at all.
During his show “Periodismo Para Todos,” journalist Jorge
Lanata said Sunday that Trump raised the permit issues during a
congratulatory call with Macri.
“This still hasn’t emerged, but
Trump asked for [Macri] to authorize a building he’s constructing in
Buenos Aires,” Lanata said. “It wasn’t just a geopolitical chat.”
Argentine
newspaper La Nación’s report of Lanata’s comments was first flagged in
the U.S. press by political news site Talking Points Memo.
Jason Miller, a spokesperson for Trump, vehemently denied Lanata’s report: “Not true. Argentina’s president said not true also.”
A spokesman for Macri did also deny the allegation.
“That
issue was not part of the conversation between president Mauricio Macri
and President-elect Donald Trump,” Argentinian embassy spokesman Iván
Pavlovsky told The Huffington Post. “The subject both leaders talked
about was the institutional relationship, and they briefly mentioned the
personal relationship they have had for years.” (Macri’s father,
Franco, was a construction magnate and worked with Trump in New York in
the 1980s.)
Macri, however, told Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun
on Monday that Trump’s daughter (presumably Ivanka) was also on his
congratulatory call.
“I have known her since her infant days,” he said.
The
claim that Trump asked for help moving forward with the tower deal
first arose during Lanata’s opening monologue, which was peppered with
one-liners, leading some to suspect that it was intended as a joke.”*
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Hosts: Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, Jimmy Dore
Cast: Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, Jimmy Dore
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