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In March 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order freezing any U.S.-based Duvalier assets, which included — according to the New York Times — Trump Tower apartment 54K.
The tale of Duvalier’s ownership of a Trump Tower apartment gained renewed interest in January 2018, thanks to a BuzzFeed News investigation of possible money laundering by the Trump Organization, combined with Trump’s alleged derogatory comments about Haiti.
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That story does mention the Duvalier incident, reporting that Trump himself signed the deed of sale for Apartment 54K in 1983, but notes that there is no evidence that the Trump Organization, or Trump personally, participated in any untoward money laundering scheme in this case.
However, as Donald Trump did sell an apartment in Trump Tower to Duvalier through a Panamanian shell corporation in 1983, we rank the claim as true.
FACT CHECK: Donald Trump Sold an Apartment to a Brutal Haitian Dictator?
On 7 February 1986, facing a domestic populist revolt and international pressure to step down, embattled President of Haiti Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, fled his country for exile in France a ...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-sold-an-apartment-haitian-dictator/
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In the mid-1980s, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had more money than he knew what to do with. The brutal Haitian dictator, a linchpin in America's network of anti-communist strongmen helping keep ...
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-first-kleptocrat-430b52c18e25/
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