Trump distances himself from lobbyist claiming close ties to him

Donald Trump on Monday denounced a D.C. lobbyist who’d been claiming to have shut ties to the president and his allies.

“Many people say they know me, claiming to be ‘greatest buddies’ and actually shut and so on., once I don’t know these individuals in any respect. This happens, I suppose, to all who grow to be President,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “With that being said, I don’t know, to the perfect of my information, a person named Michael Esposito. I don’t like him utilizing my identify to build his consulting firm, or no matter. Please advise his shoppers and Administration officers accordingly.”

Esposito’s purported ties to the president first publicly got here underneath scrutiny in an article published by The Washington Post final week that examined Esposito's sudden business growth. His agency Federal Advocates noticed him absorb five occasions as a lot cash final yr as he did in the yr before.

This summer time, Esposito earned $1.6 million from the embattled Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, an enormous sum for a single lobbyist. And final yr, his firm Federal Advocates landed profitable Ukrainian shoppers.

Based on contract bids from Federal Advocates reviewed by the Publish, Esposito has claimed to have “an open line of communication to the President of america” and be in “common” contact with Trump. He has additionally boasted of ties to Trump’s youngest grownup son, Eric Trump, and his son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner. But Eric Trump, a White Home official and press secretary Stephanie Grisham have individually denied that any of the three men know Esposito.

Eric Trump provided a extra forceful denial after his father’s tweet Monday, dismissing Esposito as only one extra participant within the D.C. swamp the president has pledged to empty.

“This makes two of us! I hold hearing this identify (Michael Esposito) however do not know who this individual is... might I've met him, probably but he definitely doesn’t have ‘direct line,’” the younger Trump wrote in a repost of the president’s tweet. “If he ever worked on a Trump undertaking, he didn’t make an enduring impression. Welcome to the swamp.”

Esposito additionally serves on an honorary advisory board to the chair of the Republican National Committee, a place he received by assembly a sure donor threshold as a member of the Trump Victory Finance Committee. In response to the Publish, the RNC lately despatched Esposito a “cease and desist” letter for misrepresenting his ties to the committee.

Article initially revealed on POLITICO Magazine

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