Saturday, February 23, 2019

Trump announces nomination of Kelly Knight Craft to be ambassador to United Nations


Philip Rucker and Anne Gearan, The Washington Post, February 22 at 7:57 PM

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Image (not from article) from (2016), under the headline
"Trump Hotel sets September D.C. opening"
Excerpt:
Craft, 56, was a business executive and philanthropist before serving as ambassador to Canada. Her husband, Joe Craft, is president and chief executive of coal producer Alliance Resource Partners.

The Crafts ... have been repeat, high-paying customers at Trump’s hotel in Washington, according to a list of “VIP Arrivals” distributed to hotel staff on June 19, 2018. That list, obtained by The Washington Post, was intended to help staff identify the Trump International Hotel’s most important customers as they checked in.

The Crafts were listed as gold-level members of the Trump Card rewards program when they checked in for a three-day stay. They were also described as “high-rate” customers, and their listing bore the notation R(20), which former Trump Hotels employees have said indicates customers who’ve stayed at least 20 times. That was an unusually high number among the hundreds of Trump hotel guests whose VIP listings have been reviewed by The Post. ...

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