Trump Organization

This is your TPM early-afternoon briefing.
Just a reminder: President Trump is still profiting off the presidency.

This is your TPM mid-morning briefing.
They’ll have what everyone else is having.
Eric Trump, who is overseeing the operations of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. while his father is president, has requested the same rent relief from the General Services Administration that other federally owned buildings are getting while the nation grapples with the COVID-19 outbreak.

The president’s businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert calls the differing numbers “versions of fraud.”