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Does Trump Even Want To Be President?

IndyBoilerman

Nov 16, 2016
12:16am

Donald will keep his companies and the Libs will whine. He won't concern himself with this whining for a second, but you feel free to keep it up.

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Originally posted by: billryan
Let him sell and invest in U.S. bonds.
Otherwise it's a terrible conflict of interest. GSA forbids federal employees from leasing from it, yet he has a long term lease on the Old Post Office. He no longer is a businessman. He is now a Civil Servant, a Federal Employee. He works for us, and I expect him to follow the same rules as everyone else.

IndyBoilerman

Nov 16, 2016
12:23am

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There are no comparisons here. First of all, Trump built these companies, and creates wealth, while Hillary only consumes and redistributes wealth. Furthermore, Hillary started a slush fund with illegal kickbacks from those she provided government favors for, all will managing an illegal pay-to-play scheme.

It's not reasonable to expect him to divest of his assets. Finally, we are back to the good old days when a successful person rode into Washington, was president for 4-8 years, and then they went back to their successful business. This is exactly what we need.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: hoops2
Billy quotes rumors

Did mal read past the first sentence? The article said that in order to do a blind trust Trump would have to sell his 500 companies; not that easy

Something to be considered long before the day after he won the election. Trump has business interests all over the planet - none of which have any obligation of transparency with the general public since they are privately owned.

So let me tell you what happens now. All the Hillary haters that were just super-pretend-pissed-off about publicly disclosed foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation and all the unfounded pay-for-play allegations....those people are going to be hunky dory with Trumps hidden foreign interests, his hidden tax returns, any and all hidden financial transactions performed between his businesses and foreign governments.

His kids are currently settling labor disputes in properties in Nevada....and those same kids are a part of the White House transition team that has input on things like WHO THE NEXT LABOR SECRETARY WILL BE.

But hey! He hasn't set up a private server yet.

drmilled

Nov 16, 2016
1:01am

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You idiotic liberals will look for ANY excuse to try and disrupt/prevent Trump from being President. You whiners are pathetic.

pjstroh

Nov 16, 2016
3:07am

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I don't really have a problem with him keeping his companies so long as he is transparent with their foreign transactions. Its not an open question as to the conflict of interest this poses. Open the books so America can see what Russian entities are loaning him money, what UAE government permits and transactions surround his resorts there....and other countries....and how they are effected by policy being crafted in the Federal government under his lead.

People like Boilerman who cry Bloody murder about Hillary's deleted emails seem perfectly fine with a president who hides his personal, financial dealings with the same countries he will be creating foreign policy and trade with. I guess all that "Hillary is a crook" crying was based on sour grapes more than legitimate values.

OddsWrkin

Nov 16, 2016
4:31am

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Just for clarification, hillbilly's emails were not simply deleted but were erased using bleachbit. From the bleachbit.org web site: shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications

Also of note is the picture of hillbilly on the same web site with the caption 'like with a cloth or something'.

Another fun fact, deleted files that have been written over can still be recovered unless a tool like bleachbit has been used to completely erase the data.

I suppose it's possible that it was pure coincidence that the files were deleted using a tool that would prevent recovery. I also think it is possible that I will win the PowerBall grand prize tonight, just that both of these aren't as likely as Lloyd Christmas ending up together with a guy like her.

billryan

Nov 16, 2016
4:44am

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It is illegal for Federal employees to head a company that does business with the GSA. If President Trump can do it, how can we prevent any other employee from doing it?
As long as Trump is President, he is a public servant and is obligated to live by the same rules as every other federal employee.
Perhaps the head of the EPA should be able to lease land from the Agency, or the Chiefs of the the Pentagon can lease Ft Bragg.

alanleroyII

Nov 16, 2016
4:52am

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Originally posted by: billryan
It is illegal for Federal employees to head a company that does business with the GSA. If President Trump can do it, how can we prevent any other employee from doing it?
As long as Trump is President, he is a public servant and is obligated to live by the same rules as every other federal employee.
Perhaps the head of the EPA should be able to lease land from the Agency, or the Chiefs of the the Pentagon can lease Ft Bragg.

The President, Vice President and Congress were specifically exempted from Federal Conflict of Interest Laws.

billryan

Nov 16, 2016
5:26am

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Can you give me a citation for that? I'm not aware of it.

IndyBoilerman

Nov 16, 2016
5:47am

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Possibly PJ could clarify this for us. Will Trump be violating a law if he does not become transparent with his business dealings? I suspect that the answer is no.

Trump is going to give all the wacky liberals the middle finder, and good for him.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh
I don't really have a problem with him keeping his companies so long as he is transparent with their foreign transactions. Its not an open question as to the conflict of interest this poses. Open the books so America can see what Russian entities are loaning him money, what UAE government permits and transactions surround his resorts there....and other countries....and how they are effected by policy being crafted in the Federal government under his lead.

People like Boilerman who cry Bloody murder about Hillary's deleted emails seem perfectly fine with a president who hides his personal, financial dealings with the same countries he will be creating foreign policy and trade with. I guess all that "Hillary is a crook" crying was based on sour grapes more than legitimate values.

malibber2

Nov 16, 2016
6:07am

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII

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Originally posted by: billryan
It is illegal for Federal employees to head a company that does business with the GSA. If President Trump can do it, how can we prevent any other employee from doing it?
As long as Trump is President, he is a public servant and is obligated to live by the same rules as every other federal employee.
Perhaps the head of the EPA should be able to lease land from the Agency, or the Chiefs of the the Pentagon can lease Ft Bragg.

The President, Vice President and Congress were specifically exempted from Federal Conflict of Interest Laws.

Not all of them. Trump can't accept payments from foreign governments which causes problems with some of his real estate holdings. In any event, it doesn't pass the smell test. Especially considering he wants to give his three kids top secret security clearance and spend a substantial portion of his presidency away from the White House.

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