Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege

Democrats accuse President Trump of intervening in the decisions involving the fate of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington to help protect his hotel up the street.

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Updated at 6 p.m. ET

President Trump intervened in a big federal building project to help protect business for his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a group of House Democrats alleged on Thursday.

Trump wants to demolish and rebuild the FBI’s headquarters, the Democrats say, to preserve the site’s government ownership and deny any potential competitors to the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion up the street.