why is this happening?
is there an emo dimension I ignored? is it somehow cheering or comforting to see a rich man use the country as his personal plaything during your own lifetime?
can anyone explain why it has been customary for US Presidents to put their property in blind trusts, or why it's a good idea that US presidents (starting with Donald Trump) should no longer do so?
why is this happening?
is there an emo dimension I ignored? is it somehow cheering or comforting to see a rich man use the country as his personal plaything during your own lifetime?
As long as it's not Hillary, there's a good portion of the population that don't particularly give a .
the intense public interest in political corruption apparently went to sleep on November 9.
what it might consist of now is speculative. apparently it doesn't register brazen self-enrichment as a possible conflict of interest.
It's all corruption. Trump just has enough lifelong elitist at ude about him that he'll do it openly. The Clintons did it more covertly but they all do it.
With half the nation, and obviously woke up with the other half.
I suppose I'm old-fashioned; I think that preserving the appearance of propriety is an actual check on corruption. A politician should decently hide his/her grafting.
A nod and a wink amounts to encouragement. The erosion of norms isn't consequence free: purely private interest swallowing the presidency is a bad precedent.
RG has checked out again. He's probably working on stage 3 or 4.
1. Denial and isolation
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Custom is stronger than legality. The destruction of political norms is momentous and not all for the good.
He's LYING
Trump Claims He’s Leaving His Company ‘In Total’ — But Doesn’t Provide Any Details
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...m_term=Reuters
He's holding a news conference about this on December 15th, and I'm sure we'll hear all the details then. But don't let that stop you and HuffBlow from freaking out because Trump isn't operating on your schedule.
Nothing to do about scheduling. Trash fully intends to enrich his bull empire by exploiting the Presidency.
Trump’s stock holdings may give him a personal stake in rules on banks and oil firms
President-elect Donald Trump has disclosed owning millions of dollars of stock in companies with business pending before the U.S. government and whose value could rise as a result of his policies.
Trump’s stock holdings, which are separate from the more high-profile real estate and branding empire that he has said he will separate from in some fashion, represent another area rife with potential conflicts of interest that Trump has yet to address as he prepares to take office.
Trump’s stock holdings, as of his most recent disclosure in May, included millions of dollars worth of shares in financial ins utions such as Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo, which have seen their stock prices rise with his promises to roll back regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crash.
He has held substantial numbers of shares in Apple and a unit of Ford, companies whose executives he has spoken with since the election as part of his efforts to press corporations not to ship jobs overseas.
Trump’s portfolio also has been dotted with millions of dollars worth of shares in oil and other energy companies that could stand to gain if he follows through on promises to loosen environmental regulations and pursue more drilling — including Halliburton, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and Phillips 66.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.d294effede0c
No we won't.
He is going to blather on about how good his hotel is, and he won't do anything but continue to directly profit from being president.
That you think otherwise is shockingly niave.
The wit hasn't provided any details about how he would do anything, never released his tax returns, and now is going to be all serious about providing details on how he is going to solve his conflict of interest problem?
Or maybe I was on a business trip, and have been more than a little busy. nah.
Keep going with whatever "feels" truthy to you, it is a post-fact world where such things don't matter.
So let's get back to do enting this, shall we?
Let's start with the Hotel in Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...ests.html?_r=0The Trump Organization’s contract with the General Services Administration prohibits any elected official of the United States government from being part of the lease or deriving any benefit from it.
Unless the agency ends its lease before the president-elect takes office, Mr. Trump will, in effect, be both the landlord and tenant of the building, according to two government procurement experts, Steven L. Schooner and Daniel I. Gordon.
The lease with the GSA, states that no federal employee can be enriched. Trump appoints the head of the GSA.
Further Trump can direct that federal employees stay at his hotel, and charge them whatever he wishes.
Next up, how he will handle federal sanctions on one of his largest lenders, as I have noted before.Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, is in negotiations with the Justice Department to settle claims over its handling of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis.
Questions remain about the bank’s ability to pay a large penalty. The Justice Department’s opening bid was $14 billion.
If the negotiations are not settled by Jan. 20, Mr. Trump will oversee a department that has the potential to make or break the bottom line of one of his biggest lenders.
Next up is that Trump gets to appoint the IRS commissioner while being under audit. Awfully convenient, that.The head of the Internal Revenue Service is nominated by the president for a five-year term. Republicans have tried to impeach the current commissioner, John A. Koskinen, whose term ends on Nov. 12, 2017. Mr. Koskinen could resign or be impeached before then, clearing the way for Mr. Trump to nominate a new commissioner.
Here is a sweet way to make all those labor violations at his various properties go away.The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency responsible for enforcing labor laws and safeguarding employees’ right to organize.
The five members Mr. Trump appoints will be in charge of investigating complaints brought by workers, which could include those at his hotels and other properties.
In fact, a week before the election, the board ruled against the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, which Mr. Trump co-owns, for refusing to negotiate with a new culinary workers union.
He can steal from his workers without worry about regulatory consequences.
Business dealings in dozens of countries.At a minimum, ethics experts warn, Mr. Trump’s holdings around the globe could give the appearance of tainting his decisions on various foreign issues.
In addition, they could also open him up to accusations that he has violated a part of the Cons ution known as the emoluments clause, which prohibits government officials from taking payments or gifts from a foreign government or en y.
“Unless he divests ownership, he will have an interest in the foreign government payments and benefits that flow to his business daily,” said Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyers for President Obama and former President George W. Bush, respectively, in a statement on Democracy 21, a group that pushes for government transparency.
Tell me that they won't be buying influence by smoothing things out. Go on.
Several of them have already pretty much done so. This is what hold the potential to get him impeached.
Have you googled emolument yet?
What nuthin?
Four solid conflicts of interest, and those are just the big ones.
Should I go on about the call with the Argentinian president?
Trickle down baby! What's good for Trump is good for AMERICA!
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