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U.S. NEWSSaturday 19 March 2016

Trump intermingling business with politics as he campaigns 

JILL COLVIN                  Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally in a hanger at                                          his many skyscrapers — as
Associated Press             Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio.                                                                              evidence of what distin-
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida                                                                                                                                      guishes him from what he
(AP) — Republican presi-                                                                                                           (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)  describes as the “all talk,
dential front-runner Don-                                                                                                                                     no action politicians.”
ald Trump appeared to        campaign has transformed     held election night parties    brand of opulence to the                                             Trump often sounds like
be wrapping up a victory     his day-to-day life. As he   at three of his Florida prop-  world.                                                               he’s promoting products
speech at his sprawling      crisscrosses the country,    erties: golf clubs in Jupi-    From the beginning of                                                he profits from, such as that
Mar-a-Lago club earlier      delivering speeches at ral-  ter and West Palm Beach,       his campaign, Trump has                                              golf tournament. Of partic-
this week when he turned     lies and calling into cable  Florida, and twice at his      pointed to his business suc-                                         ular pride in recent months
to the negative ads flood-   news shows, Trump’s busi-    sprawling Mar-a-Lago club      cess as his fundamental                                              has been his transforma-
ing the airwaves against     ness ventures are never far  nearby. Reporters have         qualification for the job of                                         tion of Washington, D.C.’s
him.                         from his mind.               been invited to transmit im-   president. He often refer-                                           Old Post Office Pavilion
Trump recalled being at a    In recent weeks, Trump has   ages of Trump’s particular     ences his assets and proj-                                           into a hotel.
professional golf tourna-                                                                ects — from the skating                                              “We’re building a mag-
ment held at his Miami golf                                                              rink in Manhattan’s Central                                          nificent hotel,” Trump
course recently. Everything                                                              Park, which he rebuilt, to                                           bragged to the crowd in
was going smoothly, he                                                                                                                                        Tampa this week. “I don’t
said, until one of the ads                                                                                                                                    even like to say that I’m
started playing on TV as he                                                                                                                                   two years ahead of sched-
schmoozed with tourna-                                                                                                                                        ule.”
ment sponsors.                                                                                                                                                Trump’s business ventures
“I’m with these wonderful                                                                                                                                     have also left him open to
people from Cadillac and                                                                                                                                      attack from his rivals. Law-
all these top executives,                                                                                                                                     suits filed against Trump’s
and I’m saying: ‘Look over                                                                                                                                    now-defunct “Trump Uni-
there! Look! Don’t watch                                                                                                                                      versity” business course
it! No, you don’t want to                                                                                                                                     program, by former stu-
watch it!’” Trump said, re-                                                                                                                                   dents accusing him of
enacting how he tried to                                                                                                                                      fraud, have been featured
distract them. “I’m saying:                                                                                                                                   in attack ads.
‘Isn’t the grass beautiful?                                                                                                                                   Trump has been fighting
Look, look. Don’t watch!’”                                                                                                                                    back, at one point hav-
It was a rare, light moment                                                                                                                                   ing staff set up displays of
in an often heated cam-                                                                                                                                       various Trump-branded
paign, but it also offered                                                                                                                                    products to try to prove
a glimpse into the way the                                                                                                                                    that the products were still
billionaire businessman’s                                                                                                                                     in existence. (The steak on
                                                                                                                                                              display, in fact, came from
                                                                                                                                                              a local distributor.)

                                                                                         Officials: Threatening letter sent
                                                                                         to Trump son’s NYC apartment

                                                                                         COLLEEN LONG                                                         ther does not drop out of
                                                                                         Associated Press                                                     the race, the next enve-
                                                                                         NEW YORK (AP) — Police                                               lope won’t be a fake.” It
                                                                                         and the FBI are investigating                                        was signed “X,” according
                                                                                         a threatening letter sent to                                         to one of the law enforce-
                                                                                         the Manhattan apartment                                              ment officials, who had
                                                                                         of Donald  Trump’s  son Eric                                         seen the letter.
                                                                                         that contained a white                                               In a statement, the New
                                                                                         powder, two law enforce-                                             York Police Department
                                                                                         ment officials said Friday.                                          confirmed that it had re-
                                                                                         Preliminary tests on the                                             sponded to a Trump build-
                                                                                         substance in the envelope                                            ing overlooking Central
                                                                                         sent to Eric  Trump’s  apart-                                        Park to investigate a suspi-
                                                                                         ment Thursday indicated                                              cious letter received by a
                                                                                         it was not hazardous, ac-                                            tenant but didn’t name the
                                                                                         cording to the officials,                                            recipient.
                                                                                         who were not authorized                                              Eric  Trump, 32, is one of
                                                                                         to disclose details of the                                           five children of business-
                                                                                         threat and spoke to The As-                                          man and Republican presi-
                                                                                         sociated Press on condition                                          dential front-runner Don-
                                                                                         of anonymity.                                                        ald Trump.
                                                                                         The handwritten letter was                                           He has been campaigning
                                                                                         postmarked March 5 from                                              for his father.
                                                                                         Boston and referenced                                                Donald  Trump’s  represen-
                                                                                         Donald  Trump’s  presiden-                                           tatives did not immediately
                                                                                         tial bid.                                                            respond to a request for
                                                                                         The letter said: “If your fa-                                        comment.
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