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... Now, The New York Times reports that a $1.5 billion Trump Organization development project outside of Hanoi has seemingly blown through the typical approval process, leaving locals enraged at the government and the president adding another layer to the onion of alleged self-dealing and kickbacks that has defined all four years and four months of Trump's presidential tenure.

According to documents published by the Times on the Trump Organization's Hanoi development, the project skipped typical environmental reviews and cut short a local public comment period -- one that had been dotted by fired-up local residents who've been informed that their land will be sold for less than half the value of what the parcels would have been worth prior to the alleged land grab.

The area set to be developed for the project includes farms and nearly four square miles of riverbank property, all together totaling "hundreds" of residences.

One local, Le Van Truong, 54, was quoted byThe New York Times as saying he could lose farmland as well as the local cemetery holding five generations of his ancestors. ...

@#2 ... Kings make their own rulz. ...

Rulz like apparently allowing the use of tariff threats to ~encourage~ a country to bypass its law in order to allow a Trump resort to be built?

@#6 ... Absolutely amazing food. ...

There's a Vietnamese community in the city north of me, Danbury, CT.

I have visited some of the Vietnamese restaurants there.

Yes, excellent food.

@#7 ... What was that Vietnam War thing about, anyway? ...

Domino Theory.

If Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow.

(I summarize)