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Trump brothers say they don't need their father to forge ahead

They will be launching a golf course in Dubai, a hotel in British Columbia and a new boutique hotel chain in the US

Published Tue, Feb 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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PRESIDENT Donald Trump's old office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan sits unoccupied, an unofficial storage space for the gathering trove of memorabilia that his two oldest sons say they hope will eventually be turned over to their father's presidential library.

But just one flight down, in Eric and Donald Jr's cramped offices, their father is ever-present - on the cover of a recent issue of Golf Digest, in his visage looping endlessly on CNN, in the cardboard cut-out of the president watching from behind a stash of blueprints in a corner.

The conundrum facing the two brothers as they assume control of the empire their father built: How do they move forwar…

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