Donald Trump’s property company is in negotiations to re-purchase his Washington hotel, which opponents say was a venue for illicit influence peddling during his first presidency. The Trump International hotel, housed in the city’s old post office building a short walk from the White House, was sold in 2022 and is now the Waldorf Astoria. The president-elect’s son, Eric Trump, who is an executive vice-president at his father’s company, met a senior executive from BDT & MSD Partners, the merchant bank that controls its long term lease, at the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this week to discuss buying it