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originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
I honestly don't care about Trump's conflicts of interest. His business interests are a known commodity, and they mostly revolve around the properties he owns. Potential conflicts of interest that are fairly transparent are preferable to hidden conflicts of interest, based on who purchased influence at the Clinton Foundation.
you do know that Trump is appointing the very same people into the various branches of government that are assigned to oversee his business interests, right?
While American voters largely know Trump from his American real-estate properties and his stint as a reality network television star,
More than 100 Trump companies have done business in 18 countries. One extraordinary conflict of interest is an effort by eight mysterious Trump companies established on the eve of Trump’s campaign to develop luxury real estate projects in Saudi Arabia—a country that Trump explicitly said he hopes to protect as president.
The Trump organization also has business deals or properties in Scotland, Azerbaijan and Uruguay. He has marketing deals in Turkey, the Philippines, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. The Bank of China is a lender to at least one of Trump’s properties. Representatives of his organization carry the Trump brand to dozens of other countries on a regular basis—raising the distinct possibility that Trump’s business brand will essentially be promoted right alongside the Trump White House and American national interests in many of these places. The Trump organization, for instance, describes the role of his son, Donald Jr., as business development and acquisitions that range “from Eastern Europe to Southeast Asia, the Middle East to South America, (and) mainland China.”
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Those Indian executives, however, have told Indian newspapers that they had been discussing the possibility of expanding their business deals with the Trump organization now that he was the President-elect, the Times reported.
originally posted by: stolencar18
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
I honestly don't care about Trump's conflicts of interest. His business interests are a known commodity, and they mostly revolve around the properties he owns. Potential conflicts of interest that are fairly transparent are preferable to hidden conflicts of interest, based on who purchased influence at the Clinton Foundation.
you do know that Trump is appointing the very same people into the various branches of government that are assigned to oversee his business interests, right?
Hmmm no. He's not.
originally posted by: redhorse
a reply to: Krazysh0t
So he's basically talking to the media and the American public like an abuser: "You knew about this before and you still got into a relationship with me and so you shouldn't bring it up".
Thank you Trump supporters for dragging me into your dysfunctional relationship with this psycho. Now the rest of us have to deal with your daddy issues and/or abusive partner baggage that you so clearly haven't dealt with.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
The one I am most concerned about right now is the current racial tension that the past 8 years have given rise to with it being ok to call all whites racist for some reason now and that anyone other than whites is not able to be racist. That is something we should ALL be concerned with.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
The one I am most concerned about right now is the current racial tension that the past 8 years have given rise to with it being ok to call all whites racist for some reason now and that anyone other than whites is not able to be racist. That is something we should ALL be concerned with.
I can help you bridge the gap here: my son says that discriminating against white folks isn't racism, but it is discrimination. He says only black people can be treated racially. He's no fool...he's a master candidate and well educated. He's just been miseducated and led to believe that "racism" has a definition that is different than what the rest of us agree it is.
"Racism" has become "discrimination against black people" among the people you are talking about. And they didn't bother to send out the memo to the rest of us uneducated plebes.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
I can help you bridge the gap here: my son says that discriminating against white folks isn't racism, but it is discrimination. He says only black people can be treated racially. He's no fool...he's a master candidate and well educated. He's just been miseducated and led to believe that "racism" has a definition that is different than what the rest of us agree it is.
"Racism" has become "discrimination against black people" among the people you are talking about. And they didn't bother to send out the memo to the rest of us uneducated plebes.
originally posted by: darkbake
This makes sense. We have not had a billionaire be president before, so it is unprecedented. He has so many companies that are basically his hobbies, that he has put his heart and soul into, and he probably wants to continue running them when he is done being president. A lot of the people he works with in these companies are probably his friend, and I think he likes friends.
If he had to sell them off - could he buy them back when he's done being president? Are there other people that could run the companies besides his children?
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote
Thirteen days after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that no one should worry about the potential conflicts of interest he could face over his range of global properties because everyone knew about them when they elected him. He blamed any questions of impropriety on the media for reporting on them.
The evening tweet from the president-elect reads: “Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!”
The hell? It's the media's fault Trump has conflicts of interest while in the White House? Um no. It's his fault. He owns the businesses. The media pointing that out doesn't make them at fault. That is the media doing its job. You know making sure there is transparency between our government and the public?
The declaration that he currently has global properties comes after promising that he would separate himself from his Trump Organization and hand the company off to his adult children Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump in a so-called blind trust. He has so far done no such thing. In fact, his tweet is a statement in the present tense ― “I have interests in properties all over the world” ― that affirms his current ownership and management of his business empire.
The children continue to take part in their father’s presidential transition despite their supposed work leading the Trump Organization. Ivanka Trump even appeared at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and reportedly was handed the phone to speak to Argentinian President Mauricio Macri when he called to congratulate her father. Trump is working to build an office tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This is BS. Even his children are demonstrating a conflict of interest. Trump hasn't even signed over his businesses in a blind trust to his kids, but even if he did it would still be a conflict of interest since those kids are involved in Trump's administration.
“President-elect Trump seems to think that he will be able to enrich himself as president and blame the press when he is caught,” said John Wonderlich, executive director of the pro-transparency group The Sunlight Foundation. “He’s going to learn soon that campaigning is very different from leading a country built on integrity and the rule of law.”
Trump is responding to the parade of stories detailing his immense portfolio of potential conflicts of interest. He met with his Indian business partners one week after winning the presidency. He continues to hold a government lease for his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., even though the lease declares that it cannot be held by a government official. Last week, the hotel held an event to pitch its luxury rooms to foreign diplomats as a way to ingratiate their countries with the president-elect. And there have been reports about Ivanka Trump’s appearance at the meeting with Abe and her talk with Macri.
Trump is demonstrating Government corruption (blatantly I might add) and he isn't even the President yet! He's basically saying here that a vote for Trump back on November 8th was a sanctioning of his corruption.
originally posted by: stolencar18
I'll say two things and then leave this thread because people like you don't care about conflicting opinions anyways...
First...his role in his businesses can (and will) change before inauguration. This is a pointless..er...point.
Second...Nobody really cares. Nobody trusts the media. Nobody trusts politicians. That's why he won.