To the Trumps, it’s a tower. To Georgia’s oligarchs, it’s a stamp of approval

Published September 23, 2026 6:00am ET | Updated September 23, 2026 12:25pm ET



In an interview The Real Deal published on Sept. 16, Eric Trump said Trump Tower Tbilisi has “nothing to do with the influence of a government.” Nor, he added, with any influence of his father’s.

The same week, he gave a very different interview, to a very different audience.

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