Trump Declines To Promise That His Own Company Won't Get Coronavirus Bailout Money

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"Instead of being thanked for ... for just not doing it, I get excoriated all the time. So I've learned, let's just see what happens."

Trump does not commit to reject taxpayer bailout money for his hotels.

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While declining to give a firm answer about the Trump Organization, which owns many hotels and golf clubs already impacted by the coronavirus, the president also said he hadn’t gotten enough credit for refusing to take home a salary while in office.

“Nobody said ‘thank you,’” the president said, also noting it was “very hard for rich people to run for office.”

Reporters also asked Trump whether he had sold any stocks in recent weeks. Reports have emerged indicating several lawmakers, including Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), sold hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in holdings after Congress began receiving private briefings on the coronavirus outbreak. (All three have denied any impropriety.)

“I don’t have stock,” Trump said. “I own things.”

“Nasty question, and yet it deserves to be asked I guess,” he added. “What I’ve done, by deciding to run … it costs me billions of dollars to become president.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-companies-coronavirus-bailout_n_5e77f1e5c5b62f90bc4cdddf