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How Donald Trump Benefits From Anti-LGBT Countries

He's called out Hillary, but Trump is in bed with many of the same homophobic regimes.

Last night in the final presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed Hillary Clinton is no ally to the LGBT community because she has accepted donations from countries that discriminate against—even imprison—gay people.

The Clinton Foundation reportedly accepted $25 million from Saudi Arabia’s ruling family, even though the punishment for homosexuality there is the death penalty.

It's has also taken contributions from Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, which have notoriously homophobic laws.

"She's no friend of women and she's no friend of LGBT Americans. No friend. Believe me," he said in June.

"How can you be a friend when these countries are oppressive to LGBT, when they're oppressive to everybody?”

But Trump has profited off the same countries.

In 2001, he sold space in New York's Trump World Tower to the government of Saudi Arabia, the same government he has attack Clinton for getting into bed with.

Trump also signed a $3 million deal to open a hotel in Azerbaijan, even though that country was named worst place for gays in Europe by the ILGA. (An 18-year-old Azeri boy was reportedly set on fire by his parents after they found out he was gay.)

Trump also has a strange admiration for Vladimir Putin, despite Russia's ban on "gay propaganda." And CNN reports he has ties to Indonesia, where gay sex is punishable by public caning and the government is trying to ban gay apps and websites.)

But the Republican presidential candidate insists it's apples and oranges.

"It's much different when she is selling our country down the tubes with her bad judgment and corrupt thought process," he told CNN in a statement.

"I am an international businessman with worldwide relationships and tremendous success and I'm going to do for the country what I did for my business."

But many of his global business deals don’t actually pan out.

In 2005, Trump partnered with the crown prince of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to open a massive luxury hotel.

"I am delighted to invest, manage and sell this project on what is clearly the best location in Dubai," he said at the time.

Three years later the hotel plan was scrapped.

Article 177 of Dubai's penal code punishes homosexuality with up to 10 years in prison. But Trump still licensed a golf course there. (His name was actually taken off it last year after his numerous Islamophobic comments.)

Trump even leased a New York property to murderous Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi.

"I made a lot of money with Gaddafi, if you remember," he said earlier this year.

"He came to the country and he had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay."

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