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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn light of Robert Kraft prostitution news, how does this IVANKA/ TRUMP ORG trademark read to you?
Link to tweet
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Is this the 3rd or 4th generation of Trump Traffickers?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)In Canada and Seattle. This is not conjecture. The family fortune was built on the backs of women.
IronLionZion
(45,550 posts)On the campaign, the more they kept talking about human trafficking and rape/abuse of immigrant women, the more I suspected there was some projection.
gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)getagrip_already
(14,868 posts)That was a high end escort service masquerading as a modeling agency.
Same trump, different country.
Whats curious is that I thought crimes like that were illegal in china?
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Great catch.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)The Trump family fortune began with one Frederick Trump, Donald's grandfather, who founded the Arctic Hotel and Restaurant in Bennett, BC. They had rooms and meals, but the profits came from liquor and prostitution.
And so, it should be more than obvious that Donald Trump's current family would desire to own houses of ill repute - were it not for the sex trade, the man some call president would be a low-level employee at a retailer in Queens.
Marcuse
(7,522 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)like "escort and concierge services," and "massage parlors" in hotels.
Not that I would trust ANYTHING to be beyond this tacky, low-level crime family, and trafficked masseurs may well be working in some of the hotels wearing the Trump brand. But this misleads and invites speculation to ignore and range far beyond known truth.
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)from March 8, 2017. This offers the TrumpCo explanation, not later confirmation that it was accurate, but the expert consulted evaluates it as no red flags.
Its not clear whether any Trump-branded businesses will materialize in China. Garten did not elaborate on how the trademarks would be used, but said the company did not apply for a trademark for social escort services.
Garten said in an email to the AP that part of the application included concierge and security related services associated with the operation of a hotel or restaurant, but not escort services, a legal trademark classification.
Those hotel-related services fall into the same trademark class as escort services, which were included in the Chinese governments preliminary approval of the mark. The filing lists escort service, ?body guard, and social escort, among others.
Many companies register trademarks in China only to prevent others from using their name inappropriately.
Janet Satterthwaite, a global trademark attorney and partner at Potomac Law Group in Washington, says nothing about Trump seeking and receiving trademarks in China raises any immediate red flags.
Especially in China, you absolutely need to register defensively so that people do not exploit your name for commercial gain, she said. She that that while the marks are moving faster than in her own experience, it does not look like China did anything extraordinary here.
https://apnews.com/8f54b14808a2459f9efcb0089f41f056
fierywoman
(7,696 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)No chance that they trademarked Trump Escorts.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)spanone
(135,892 posts)Dirty Emoluments.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)There is something greater going on here than mere happy endings, and big names are involved.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,466 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)canetoad
(17,197 posts)Seems to be current but inaccessible - the tweets are protected from prying eyes.
https://twitter.com/trumpmodels?lang=en
Bit of gossip but seems to be nothing of substance here:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumpmodels?lang=en
Updated on Instagram in Feb 2016
Instagram post by Trump Models Feb 1, 2016 at 11:15pm UTC
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/436497388868542928/
Squinch
(51,025 posts)kacekwl
(7,022 posts)Can some enterprising Democratic Congress member put together a list of drumphs impeachable offenses and stand in front of the American people the press and the repukes daily and list them. I know it would take a lot of time and space but this shit needs to be out there for the world to see. It would be expensive but maybe a 12 hour infomercial (might have to go an hour) to broadcast several times a day. No one it seems wants to start impeachment hearings but we could still get the info out to people. Remember Clinton and the BJ was front page news forever. This shit is out of control.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)I also assume Trump's modeling agency is an "escort" service.