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Trump is "definitely still involved" in his hotel business, a new report says

Tromp is definitely still involved in his hotel business a new report says

Even as president Trump keeps up on how his Washington DC. Hotel is doing

President Donald Trump's isn't so separate from his businesses as he would like the public to think

Throughout his campaign and through his first few months as president Trump

Has said he would distance himself from his Trump organization and hand it over to his sons in lieu of divesting entirely

Which ethics experts say he should?

They fear that otherwise he will use the presidency for his own personal gain or that his policies will be influenced by his business

Interests as far as the president flagship hotel in Washington. DC. Goes Trump is definitely still involved

According to an email sent by the hotel's director of revenue management first reported by The Daily Beast on

Friday that site published with September 12th email from Gingka hyung the director of revenue management

for the Trump International Hotel in Washington

In if he wrote that he met with Trump who asked specific questions about the hotel in his business

The message says the company is interesting being under the Trump umbrella

Djt is supposed to be out of the business and passed on to his sons

but he's definitely still involved so it's interesting and unique in that way I

had a brief meeting with him a few weeks ago, and he was asking about banquet revenues and demographics and

He asked if his presidency heard the businesses

So he seems self-aware about things at least more than he lets on I am far left-leaning

Politically so working here has been somewhat of a challenge for me, but it's all business

It's not clear when hyung met with Trump

McHale daemul in court the hotel's

Managing Director told The Daily Beast that hyung made Trump's comments up in an effort to enhance his sense of importance to a former employer

Trump's refusal to completely separate himself from his vast business Holdings has been a source of ethical consternation since his election

shortly before his inauguration Trump

And one of his lawyers Sheri Dillon

Outlined a vague plan for the president-elect to distance himself from his company at Trump Tower in New York

They announced he would put his businesses in a trust managed by his two adult sons Eric and Donald Jr

and the Trump

Organizations chief financial officer Alan weiselberger I could actually run my business and run government at the same time

I don't like the way that looks Trump said, but I would be able to do that if I wanted to

Ethics experts have argued

Divest sell-off is assets entirely and put their value into a blind trust an investment portfolio of which he would have no knowledge or control

The president is now entering a world of public service Walter Shaw former director of the Office of government ethics

the government agency that oversees

Executive branch policies related to conflict of interest said in a speech at the Brookings Institution at the start of the year

He's going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices

He's going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives and conflicts around the world

So no I don't think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be the President of the United States of America

Schaub resigned in July to join the campaign Legal Center a group that works on campaign finance and ethics in government

In working with the current administration

It has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program

He said in a press release at the time. It's perhaps telling that Shaab felt. He called and reformed the government from the inside

Trump's washington hotel has been especially problematic

some of trumps businesses have struggled since his election for example a

trunk branded hotel in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood dropped the Trump name after a number of

High-profile clients refused to stay there and his golf clubs and hotels in more liberal-leaning

Areas appear to have declined in business and in some instances revenue

But the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC. Which Trump opened while campaigning for the presidency?

has flourished

According to The Wall Street, Journal the hotel brought in 18 million in revenue in the first four months of 2017 in part by hiking

It made a nearly 2 million profit during that time period despite budgeting for a 2.1 million loss

The hotel has become a sort of White House extension since the president took office

Foreign dignitaries lobbyists Republican lawmakers often visit the hotel in hopes of getting in Trump's good graces

The Washington Post in May sent reporters to the hotel every day where they spotted a range of figures and organizations

including former Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski business groups promoting Turkish American relations and former

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust that had the power to sell it Noah bookbinder

Director of the bipartisan watchdog group Citizens for responsibility and ethics crew in Washington recently told Vox

It wasn't as though human foreign powers or lobbyists trying to hang out at the peanut farm to try and influence the president

It didn't have that kind of mixing of business and the office

To a large extent Trump's presidency marks the first time such an ethical conundrum has been seen in the White House

It's also shown that the rules governing presidential ethics and conflicts of interest are more guidelines or norms and enforceable laws

Cruz sued the president in January claiming that Trump's business interests were causing conflicts of interest and violating the US

Constitution specifically the foreign emoluments clause which prohibits Trump from receiving anything of value from foreign governments

Month a federal judge dismissed the case and the flow of foreign dignitaries

lawmakers and Trump allies through the Trump hotel lobby continues unabated

Our statement as released from Mikkel DeMille in court is accurate, and there is nothing more to add said Trump International Hotel

Spokeswoman Patricia tang in an email there is no conflict of interest

Thank you for watching for the follow-up subscribe to the channel yourself here these were real problems

You look at the things that they did and holder protecting the president

And I have great respect for that it will be honest. I have great respect for that breed that again

Trump's premised in this section appears to be that President Obama engaged in a wide array of criminal

undemocratic and negligent behaviors

But his attorney general protected him from justice and Trump's conclusion is that Obama's Attorney General did his job well?

To Trump the Attorney General dose and served the country or the Constitution

But the President Trump does not know what he dost know and he over estimates what he does know

The interview is not done. I know more about the big Bill's than any president. That's ever been in office

Whether it's health care and taxes especially taxes

And if I didn't I couldn't have persuaded 200 you ask mark meadows inaudible

I couldn't have persuaded 100 congressmen to go along with the bill the first bill. You know that was ultimately

Shockingly rejected. I know the details of taxes better than anybody better than the greatest CPA

I know the details of health care better than most

Better than most and if I didn't I couldn't have talked all these people into doing ultimately only to be rejected in

Psychology there's an idea known as the dunning-kruger effect

it

Refers to research by David Dunning and Justin Kruger that found the least competent people often believe they are the most competent because they lack

The very expertise needed to recognize how badly they're doing this dynamic helps explain

Comments like the one Trump makes year over the course of reporting on the Trump White House

I have spoken to people who briefed Trump and people who have been briefed by him

I've talked to policy experts who have sat in the Oval Office

Explaining their ideas to the President and to members of Congress who have listened to the president sell his ideas to them

I've talked to both Democrats and Republicans

Who have occupied these roles in all cases their judgment of Trump is identical?

He is not just notably uninformed, but also notably difficult to inform his attention span is thin

He hears what he wants to hear he wanders off topic he has trouble following complex arguments

Trump has trouble following these briefings or even correctly repeating what he has heard

This is all perfectly evident if you listen to Trump discuss policy in public momentarily for instance in this same

New York Times interview he tries to explain how he's changed Obamacare so now I have associations I have private insurance

Companies coming and will sell private health care plans to people through associations

That's gonna be millions and millions of people

People have no idea how big that is and by the way and for that we've ended across state lines so we have competition

You know fur that I am allowed to inaudible state lines, so that's all done now

I've ended the individual mandate and the other thing

I wish you tell people so when I do this and we've got health care

You know McCain did is vote dot we've created associations millions of people are joining

Associations millions that were formerly in a Bama care or didn't have insurance or didn't have health care

Millions of people that's gonna be a big bill you watch it could be as high as 50% of the people you watch

So that's a big thing and the individual mandate

so now you have associations and people don't even talk about the

Association's that could be half the people are going to be joining up with private inaudible

So now you have associations in the individual mandate

I can with some effort untangle what Trump might have been trying to say here, but it's incoherent

So suffused with have related ideas and personal obsessions

Why did Trump feel the need to bring up McCain's vote here that it's hard to say for sure at best

Trump is saying something that is comprehensible but incorrect he signed an executive order making it easier to form Association health plans

Which our health plans formed by groups of small businesses and making it easier for those plans to skirt to them occurs insurance

Regulations and to contain small businesses from multiple states as of now and Trump doesn't seem to realize this

It's just an executive order the rules defining and implementing it have not been written, so it is not yet happening

And we don't know how it will work in practice much less how many people may eventually sign up nor does the order

Actually get rid of the prohibition on selling insurance across state lines for most people

It's only for this one kind of plan which will only serve a tiny minority of the health insurance market

Whatever Trump is saying it does not reveal much fun

Garetty with health policy or even with the status and limits of his own actions and yet Trump believes himself on

Policy to be the most informed president in American history as the dunning-kruger effect suggests

He doesn't know how much he doesn't know and that combined with his natural tendency toward narcissism has left in dangerously

overconfident in his own knowledge base speaking of narcissism

We're going to win another four years for a lot of reasons most

Importantly because our country is starting to do well again, and we're being respected again

But another reason that I am going to win another four years is because newspapers

Television all forms of media will tank if I am NOT THERE because without me their ratings are going down the tubes

Without me the New York Times will indeed be not the failing New York Times, but the failed New York Times

so they basically have to let me win and

Eventually probably six months before the election they'll be loving me because they're saying please please

Don't lose Arnold Trump. What is one even to say about this isn't a joke if so

Why is Trump taking this opportunity to make it is it an attack on the media is it Trump finding another way to?

Compliment himself to give himself credit for the media's success imagine

How we would react to literally any other president speaking like this Trump has bludgeoned us into becoming accustomed to these kinds of comments

But that too is worrying. This is the President of the United States speaking to the New York Times his comments are by turns

incoherent incorrect

conspiratorial

delusional self aggrandizing and under-informed

this is not a partisan judgment indeed the interview is rarely coherent or specific enough to classify the points Trump makes on a

Recognizable left-right spectrum as has been true since he entered American politics Trump is interested in Trump over the course of the interview

He mentions his electoral college strategy seven times in each case using it to

Underscore his political savvy and to suggest that he could easily have won the popular vote if he had tried I am NOT a medical

Professional and I will not pretend to know what is truly happening here

It's become a common conversation topic in Washington to muse on whether the president is suffering from some form of cognitive decline

psychological malady

I don't think those hypotheses are necessary or meaningful

Whatever the cause it is plainly obvious from Trump's words that this is not a man fit to be President that he is not well

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12 Cabins 12 Vacancies: The Haunted Hotel In Cinema - Duration: 9:22.

I'm sure by now, most are familiar with the idea that, in the uncanny words of Emily Dickinson

'One need not be a chamber to be haunted' – that a person can be haunted

without the need for a ghost, even if we're given the suggestion of one.

A person can be haunted by their own experiences, their own thoughts, their past

and even when the danger should have past, its influence can remain.

And while this image of the 'haunted house' can often act as a spatial double for the

mind, and the idea of the familiar rendered unfamiliar, of not quite being at home with yourself,

what about when we move away from the personal towards the haunting of

collective space, a space in between public and private.

In cinema, these hauntings seem to manifest differently, and in a way that more directly

parallels Dickinson's poem.

Here we are not terrorised by ghosts, even if they may be present in one way or another,

but rather, so it would seem, by the building itself and who we might become inside it.

These buildings are old, isolated, empty where we expect crowds of people or perhaps where

there once were – but these spaces aren't haunted by the ghostly figures we might associate

with the word, even if this image might still present itself.

In fact I'd say it's not that the building is haunted but that we're haunted by the building itself,

and there are few buildings more menacing than The Overlook Hotel

in Stephen King's 'The Shining', particularly as it appears in Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation

it's impossible labyrinth-like structure seemingly watching, even pursuing.

And while the idea of ghosts is certainly conjured, the visions that dwell here seem

to exist between physical and metaphysical space, traces of past events that might

linger in the present.

[audio: The Shining] "When something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind."

"Say, like, if someone burns toast."

"Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind."

"I think a lot of things happened right here in this particular hotel, and not all of them is good."

And what better place to explore such an ephemeral conception of haunting than a hotel,

a place that is itself defined by a kind of ephemeral existence, where people pass through,

a space that we occupy, that we live in, but only briefly.

This idea of the ephemeral is then frequently paired with that of duality – doubles, mirrors,

reflections that create a trace of the present. One that, like the visions projected by

The Overlook, is reliant on and responsive to the observer.

But the mirror also functions in a more uncanny manner, being, as Foucault describes:

And so, through this double, like a ghost, we are both here and somewhere else,

physical and projected, the self and the other.

It is this other that is often portrayed as the true self, the reflection revealing what

the physical body is able to hide.

It's in this space that identity can begin to break down.

The film 'Last Year at Marienbad' takes place in a similarly serpentine hotel, and

uses mirrors to simultaneously fracture identity and physical space, drawing a connection between

the characters' consciousness and the hotel's infrastructure.

Here intangible space breaks free of the mirror, and the conversation continues as past, present,

reality and memory merge together:

The shifting architecture of the vast hotel provides a visual echo of the characters'

confused and competing memories – where one says they've met before and the other

denies it.

And just as we can't be sure of space and time, we can't be sure of which character to believe,

and it seems, neither can they, and without being able to trust our own

memory, our identity increasingly fractures until we become unavoidably lost.

The hotel provides the perfect parameters for this fracturing, not only in its capacity

for expansive hallways, but also its position between public and private.

In addition to yet another prevalent use of mirrors and its own type of haunting, Alfred

Hitchcock's 'Psycho' makes both a clear distinction between these public and private

spaces – the private, shadowed house that looms over the public and, now, notorious,

Bates Motel – and complicates this distinction with its voyeuristic themes and cinematography,

and it's only a matter of time before the dark, undisclosed 'private' space

violently collides with the 'public'.

Unlike 'The Shining', the 'ghosts' here are not fleeting visions

but rather hide in plain sight.

Images of taxidermy, a grotesque kind of resurrection and preservation,

where the dead won't stay dead.

[audio: Psycho] "I won't have you bringing strange young girls in for supper!"

"My mother there?"

"But she's harmless."

"She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds."

But here the past is shown to be anything but harmless.

Despite moving ever further from it, the past still has a hold on the present.

It influences our actions, our surroundings, and there are visual reminders all around us.

So, if this past lingers in the present through the physical space it shares, then this gives

rise to another fear – a fear cultivated in the wake of merging dichotomies, past-present,

public-private, self-other, – that as we become a part of this space, it is now a part of us.

[audio: Session 9] "already an itty bitty piece of this shit may have gotten into your lungs, man.

"It incubates in your lungs, and tissue begins to grow around it like a... like a pearl."

"Like a timebomb."

The 2001 horror film 'Session 9' isn't set in a hotel, but the abandoned psychiatric

hospital entered by a small asbestos removal team is certainly comparable to the grand

exteriors of The Overlook or the hotel in Marienbad – and it's the most overt in

its suggestion that these sprawling corridors and rows of empty rooms reflect how we too

might not be so singular.

[audio: Session 9] "Billy, where does the princess live?

"In the tongue … because she's always talking, sir."

These taped sessions of a patient with dissociative identity disorder, with three alters, provide

an explicit parallel to the fractured identity we see in the characters of these films,

a fracturing that somehow seems almost inevitable in the shadow of such vast, oppressive, foreboding

architecture.

[audio: Session 9] "And where do you live, Billy?

"I live in the eyes."

"Because I see everything, sir."

There's a fear that we could be consumed by this space and its history

that we could lose our hold on our own identity in the way that the unnamed characters in 'Last

Year at Marienbad' never really get a hold of theirs – even credited at the end as

only A, X, and M.

Early in Session 9, a character jokes about

how the only side effect of a lobotomy is a black eye, easily treated with sunglasses

but the reality reveals the violence of that which at first might seem invisible

engraving the effect of trauma onto the surface.

The haunted house is the classic model for the familiar rendered unfamiliar

but the act of occupying a space in between public and private is trying to force to unfamiliar

to be familiar – trying to claim a space as our own, a claim that's far more tenuous,

a space that's far more outside our control.

{audio: Session 9] "Hello, doc." "Simon?"

And this fear of empty spaces that seem as

though they should be occupied, really arises from the sense that these spaces are not empty

at all, for, as film critic Kathleen Murphy puts it, 'these empty spaces are heavy with old air'.

Traces of the past linger here as they do in us. The past will not stay dead and

this ghostly force threatens to appear on the surface at any moment and take over

not as a ghost, but as something inside us,

inside everyone.

[audio: Session 9] "And where do you live, Simon?"

"I live in the weak and the wounded, doc."

Hey everyone, thanks for watching.

This one was a bit different as I usually just focus on one film,

but this was a lot of fun to do and probably about time I, you know, mix things up a bit as I've

been doing this for nearly a year now.

So let me know what you thought and I hope I'll see you next time.

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2 security guards killed at Vegas hotel-casino: cops

LAS VEGAS — Police in Las Vegas say two security guards are dead after being shot in a room at a hotel-casino.

Police say the alleged shooter ran away after the shooting Saturday morning at Arizona Charlie's Decatur but then was found by police at a nearby residence with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter's condition and the victims' identities have not been released.

Additional information about the circumstances of the incident, including a possible motive, was not immediately available. A call to the hotel-casino's office went unanswered. Arizona Charlie's Decatur is a short distance west of the Las Vegas Strip.

The shooting comes as law enforcement officers are preparing for tens of thousands of New Year's Eve revelers on the Strip and three months after a mass shooting that killed 58 people.

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LAS VEGAS — Two Las Vegas security guards were fatally shot Saturday while investigating

a disturbance in a room at a hotel-casino and the suspected shooter is facing critical

injuries after turning the gun on himself, police said.

The gunman's motive wasn't known but investigators believe it was an isolated incident.

"I want you to know right now that this has nothing to do with terrorism," Capt.

Robert Plummer told reporters outside the scene of the shooting.

The shooting happened before 7 a.m. at Arizona Charlie's Decatur, which is located west

of the Las Vegas Strip.

According to police, the suspect, Christopher Olague, ran from the hotel-casino after the

shooting and into a nearby neighborhood where he tried to enter two homes but the residents

were able to keep him out.

Police found him in a laundry room accessible through a garage of the second home after

he appeared to have shot himself in the head, Lt. Dan McGrath said.

According to McGrath, Olague tried to enter the first home with the intention of stealing

a car and also tried to take a vehicle on the street.

Police described Olague's condition as a "non-survivable wound."

The victims' identities were not released.

Police said the uniformed security guards were a man and a woman in their 40s and that

one was armed.

Their identities and their causes of death will be released by Clark County Coroner's

Office.

McGrath said the circumstances of what happened in the hotel room still unclear.

The hotel-casino's office did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

The shooting comes a day before law enforcement officers expect tens of thousands of New Year's

Eve revelers on the Strip and three months after the city dealt with the deadliest mass

shooting in modern U.S. history.

Officials have been trying to reassure residents and visitors that the city is safe, especially

in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting.

A high-stakes gambler killed 58 people and injured hundreds more after he shattered the

windows of his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Strip

and unleashed gunfire on a country music festival below.

He then killed himself.