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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/trump-blumenthal-fued-1136372
looks like Trump and Blumenthal's father in law have a bitchfight related to their NYC property developer careers. go figure.
>But Blumenthal’s in-laws and Trump go way back in New York real estate circles. Trump and Blumenthal’s father-in-law, Peter Malkin, were competitors in the Manhattan real estate market and eventually clashed over a deal involving control of the iconic Empire State Building.
Those clashes have intersected with Blumenthal’s status as a Democrat who is among “the most vocal on Trump’s potential legal liability,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
“Their families traveled in the same circles,” Murphy said. And Blumenthal “is picking a scab regularly that Trump’s particularly sensitive about. Dick’s on TV a lot talking about the Mueller investigation. He doesn’t pull any punches.”
The Democratic senator is among the chattiest in the Capitol, quick to find ways to weigh in on the issue of the day.
It's a big club, and we ain't in it!
The real estate dispute stretches back more than 20 years, when Trump in 1994 claimed that he purchased 50 percent of the title to the Fifth Avenue skyscraper, which was controlled by Malkin and his partner, Leona Helmsley. In 1995, he sued to get the lease broken by accusing Helmsley of violating its terms due to improper upkeep of the historic building.
Both parties battled for ownership in court until a Manhattan judge denied Trump’s petition in 1999. Trump’s attorneys accused Malkin and Helmsley of allowing the building to become “second-rate” and infested with rodents. Trump appealed, lost, and eventually agreed to sell his portion of the lease to Malkin for $57.5 million in 2002,according to reports at the time.
