1. So, it's a land exchange, not a "Giveaway". Coventina lied, unsurprisingly.
2. What Coventina quoted from the NYT did not speak of what the developer would do with the "two 40-acre parcels near the park". Trump's business being what it is, my guess is that the developer will build another lodge or hotel.
3. Coventina wants to believe and for DUpipo to believe that McMansions will be built. A simple access road would not suffice for that ... which, probably, is how the "small parcel just inside the western boundaries of Yosemite" would be used.