Earlier this week, a respected Argentinian TV journalist reported that President-Elect Donald Trump had not only spoken with Argentinian president Mauricio Macri, but had specifically inquired about a stalled building permit for one of his real-estate projects in Buenos Aires. The camps for both Trump and Macri furiously denied that Trump had brought up the Torre Trump development and said that the conversation was merely a courtesy call from one head of state to another. The denials effectively neutered the story until Wednesday, when it was further reported that Trump’s real-estate project had, in fact, secured the long-delayed building permits just three days after speaking with Macri on November 14, according to Argentinian paper La Nación.

While there has been no hard evidence that Trump pressured Macri to approve the project, Quartz notes that the call between the two, who have been occasional golfing buddies since the 1980s, had been arranged with the help of Trump’s Argentinian business associate. La Nación reported that Felipe Yaryura, whose firm YY Development is building Torre Trump in Buenos Aires, helped foreign minister Susana Malcorra get in touch with the president-elect’s son, Eric Trump, shortly after the election. (Yaryura himself was present at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown the night that Trump was elected.)

The State Department normally organizes conversations between the president-elect and other heads of state, but Trump has so far handled most of his dealings with his soon-to-be peers personally, often including his children in the conversations. Last week, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, now a top Trump administration adviser, sat in on his meeting with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, raising questions about the division between Donald Trump and his Trump Organization. Trump has pledged to hand over the family business to his children in an arrangement the billionaire has likened to a blind trust, but that will leave him with a full accounting of his global assets and easy access to its managers. All three of Trump’s children from his first marriage, Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr., are also key members of his White House transition team.

In an interview Tuesday with The New York Times, Trump defended his conflicts of interest, noting that the president is largely unrestrained by law from engaging in business while in office. “The law’s totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest,” he argued, following days of questioning over his international business ties. “In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly,” he said at another point. “There’s never been a case like this.”

Trump, who has never released his tax returns, is technically correct. The president, unlike other federal employees, is exempt from having to divest from businesses and financial interests while in office. Only the Emoluments Clause, an until-recently obscure provision of the Constitution, prevents the president from accepting any “present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state,” unless agreed to by Congress. Which is perhaps why Trump allegedly saw it fitting to suggest to British politician Nigel Farage, after winning the presidency, that he would certainly prefer if the U.K. did not build an unsightly offshore wind farm nearby his Aberdeen golf club in Scotland. And, perhaps, why Ivanka, who is in charge of the Trump Organization’s global real-estate holdings, was reportedly on her father’s call with Mauricio Macri. Family is important, after all, to the president-elect. “If it were up to some people,” Trump told the Times on Tuesday, “I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again.” The public might settle for him keeping her off his conference calls, to start.