Rachel Maddow roasts the “embarrassing” scandal, the Trump Hotel deal derailed

The first international hotel in Europe could not take place thanks to a “embarrassing” scandal in which the Serbian government is involved, said Rachel Maddow during a segment about state corruption that endangered the deal.

The families of Trump and Kushner had planned to tear down a national monument in Belgrade and to build a luxury hotel and a residence of 500 million US dollars on the site, Maddow said. But the deal is in danger after the official who signed the demolition of the monument has admitted to forging the document to approve the destruction.

The officer was missing an expert opinion that said that the site of his cultural heritage could be freed Status and is now being charged with abuse of office and counterfeiting official documents. The New York Times Registered last week.

“Damn this rule of law. If there was no remaining rule of law and for this interference of children. Now there may never be a Trump tower in Europe,” said Maddow during the show on Monday evening.

Trump's son -in -law Jared Kushner's company told the Just In an explanation: “We will check this matter and determine the next steps.”

“Womp, Womp, sad trombone,” said Maddow.

The location in question is the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defense, which was badly damaged in a NATO bomb campaign in 1999.

The fake document formed a legal basis for removing the complex of its protected historical status according to the Just.

During her segment, Maddow said that the forgery was uncovered in the middle of a massive, “relentless” protest movement, which began in November after a concrete canopy at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia's second largest city, killed 16 people.

The collapse shone a light on the corruption of the government, said Maddow. When demonstrators took to the streets in Serbia, Donald Trump Jr. visited the country to try to support his “very Trumpy” president, she added.

“In Serbia there was a completely new round of this business against the president of this country in Serbia, which shifts a place of national, cultural and historical importance for a development agreement that Donald Trump and his family personally benefits,” she said.

Kushner's company Affinity Partners said in a statement on the explanation of the Just that it had not played a role in checking the cultural status of the website. Opposition leaders have nevertheless accused the Serbian government of expressly falsified the cultural heritage document in order to “create space for the Trumps”.

“It is astonishing how corruption things run so well and so easily and so quickly – for a second,” said Maddow. “Before everything goes too damn, right before people absolutely a cotton to what they do and find a way to stop it.”