Potential Presidential Conflicts of Interest.

[Rusty Edge]

GLEANINGS from recent days-

* Ivanka & Kushner present at meeting with Japanese Prime Minister.

* Ivanka present at meeting with Indian businessmen.

* [Sleezebag] pressing the British to not have windmills ruining the vistas at his Scottish golf course. ( I find it interesting that he rants about windmills ruining vistas, but asserts his right to giant flagpoles. Maybe if they flew flags from the windmills...)

* Ivanka present on phone call when when Argentina called. According to Argentina news source [Sleezebag] asked for help permitting a skyscraper there.

* [Sleezebag] made 4 or 5 deals in Saudi Arabia during the campaign.

* [Sleezebag] tweeted- " 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!"

* Obama and others call for [Sleezebag] to divest.

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At first I was thinking that okay, this is just one foreign media source for each allegation, let's wait for confirmation, but there seems to be a pattern of  behavior here, and more sources picking it up. [Sleezebag] bringing up business, making it clear that Ivanka is the liason ( okay, that has creepy implications . Ivanka is the go-between ), looking forward to a good working relationship.

[Unorthodox]

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[Rusty Edge]

Today he sort of admitted to bringing up the Scottish windmills with the British government.

He also indicated that he doesn't see the conflicts of interest as a big deal. Maybe that's why he doesn't want the Clinton Foundation investigated. That kind of attitude will lead to excess and trouble.

The question is, will the GOP Congress restrain him, or will it get bad enough for everybody to consider it bribery/impeachable, and flip the Congress to make it so. Well, I think the Congress will be less forgiving if they see him as enriching himself, while taking money out of their pockets by imposing a 5 year lobbying ban upon them.

[Unorthodox]

Biased source, but:

-conflicts-of-interest]http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/only-congress-can-deal-with-[Sleezebag]-conflicts-of-interest

[Rusty Edge]

The Mother Jones article was fair.

The only way out of this box that I see is if Congress regulates this & Obama signs off before [Sleezebag] takes office.

OR if Congress buys him out. Too big to handle for years otherwise.

[E_T]

Not for the next two years, which will cause the largest party mid-term flip in Congress, then after, will have to see.... But wait.... Mike Pence...

[Unorthodox]

Don't really have a place to put this. 

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Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!

Putting aside the rest of the circus that is [Sleezebag], if there is one glimmer of hope I have for Trumpident, it's that he takes a serious look at ALL government contracts. 

[Rusty Edge]

The proposed [Sleezebag] Cabinet is basically generals, Goldman-Sachs bankers, and assorted plutocrats. [Sleezebag] repeatedly said that he knows more than the generals. So why hire any of them? Because they'll take orders?  I can't help but wonder if Goldman-Sachs isn't helping out the [Sleezebag] family financial empire somehow... just a hunch. Plutocrats, well, people like to surround themselves with like-minded guys.

 I hear [Sleezebag] doesn't want to divest because it might mean paying capital gains taxes. But if he doesn't divest, he'll have conflicts of interest. The ones with the foreign governments are the thorny ones, Constitutionally.   The only remedy is for The House to start impeachment proceedings. Of course they aren't likely to do that.

 Then again, I'm sure the House Republicans would much prefer their former colleague Mike Pence as president. If [Sleezebag] doesn't want to play along with the GOP agenda, he'll have that hanging over his head. .  You may say they can't do that, because [Sleezebag] has a mandate. But he's already flipped on "Lock her up",  "Mexico will pay for it", and his puplic opinion of Obama. His Carrier deal wasn't strong-arming with the threat of a 35% tariff  and no more government contracts, it was a tax break deal, which the parent company has since announced will be used to further automate the Indiana plant. That's not all. He's only saving 800 of the 1100 jobs he promised. So the taxpayers are paying to automate workers out of a job AND will be supporting them on the unemployment rolls. How cool is that?!

 But it doesn't stop there. [Sleezebag]'s Sec. of Labor choice is an advocate of immigration and automation. As a fast food CEO he has a history of not paying minimum wage and overtime. Cool, huh?  Anyway, my point is that [Sleezebag]'s approval ratings are still under water. When his supporters get disillusioned with him, he's in peril.

[Unorthodox]

-federal-contracts-weapon-000262]http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/12/[Sleezebag]-federal-contracts-weapon-000262

[Bearu]

The greed continues to emanate from the orifices of the president known as [Sleezebag]. Who does not love the characteristic of overt greed in a president? The greed represents the presence of a capitalist where a person who owns the means of production claims to "work" for the people while the bourgeoisie lines his or her pocket with the temporal blood of the proletariat.

[E_T]

Well, first, it is not yet Jan 20th, so he is not yet president, but still a PRIVATE Citizen...

As for other things, I think is just more stupidity than greed.

Now, if you have a specific instance that has promted your last post, please post a link (english sites only, please) to it, maybe even quote a few paragraphs too...

Allows for better discussion than just outright propaganda...  and who knows, you might just sway some readers that way....  but if anything, continues the overall discussion...

[Bearu]

Well, first, it is not yet Jan 20th, so he is not yet president, but still a PRIVATE Citizen...

As for other things, I think is just more stupidity than greed.

Now, if you have a specific instance that has promted your last post, please post a link (english sites only, please) to it, maybe even quote a few paragraphs too...

Allows for better discussion than just outright propaganda...  and who knows, you might just sway some readers that way....  but if anything, continues the overall discussion...

     Oh! The examples I could cite for the last point based on simple economic terms. The presence of the gambling industries in the portfolio of Donald [Sleezebag] represents a dangerous precedent for the population because the business deals of the corporations, for example, produces an excessive influence on the economic decisions of the president. The presence of the media corporations in the "acquaintances" of Donald [Sleezebag] represents another corruptible influence. How many times will the people delude themselves under the guise of a media who manipulates, according to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in [i[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media[/i], the population with the five point model of media creation? The quotations from the material derives from a copyrighted source, so I cannot employ the article unless I check the book from my local library. The answer remains the people remain suggestible since the population lacks the ability to discern the true motivations for the actions of the population.
    The other aspect of the critique derives from the principles of the economics of Marx, Keynes, and several other important economic theorists. The gist of the topic involves the exploitation of the surplus value from the population of a capitalist who multiplies the cost of a product through the hands of the various manufacturers in the industry. The labor cost of a phone with parts from five different industries costs about 1700 labor hours yet the cost appears at a reasonable 500 or 600 dollars for a phone. How can the cost reach the reasonable price? The answer remains the brutal exploitation of the labor force in a foreign country where the workers remain the slaves of the capitalists like Donald [Sleezebag] who profit from the suffering of the population. The examples from Marx include the presence of a cloth manufacturing process where the initial cost of the product remains 12 hours yet the process continues to increase through 1200 hours after a number of processes in an additive series. The capitalists promise to support the interests of the people, yet the people remain an ignorant group about the processes.

[Rusty Edge]

This article lists [Sleezebag]'s potential international conflicts of interest.
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2016/12/next-national-security-conflict-trumps-foreign-business-interests/133899/

"A global business empire raises the question: will the next president’s foreign policy serve America’s interests or his own?
From close neighbors in Latin America to European allies in the fight against the Islamic State, Donald [Sleezebag] has international entanglements like no previous commander in chief. Each of the president-elect’s business endeavors, critics say, offers an opportunity for foreign leaders and other actors to unduly influence U.S. policy through emoluments — or potentially, even extortion.
Keeping track of [Sleezebag]’s national-security conflicts-of-interest will be no simple matter, observers say, unless and until he creates a truly blind trust for his assets. Though some potentially profit-inflected decisions have already attracted critical scrutiny, others have surfaced only in the international press, and still others may remain hidden by the [Sleezebag] Organization’s opaque operating style.
What follows is as complete an accounting of [Sleezebag]’s overseas financial interests as could be gleaned from open-source reporting, including the financial disclosure form he filed as a presidential candidate. Released by the Federal Election Commission, the form is light on details but provides broad estimates of [Sleezebag]’s assets, income, and debt for the year ending May 2016.
We will update this article as information comes to light about [Sleezebag]’s interests, including projects that are being cancelled or moving ahead. Last updated: Jan. 9, 2017 . "

[Bearu]

The country requires the presence of labor unions for a healthy economy, but the president elect [Sleezebag] and the cadre of elite sphincters insist on the presence of the bourgeoisie's union busting members in the Department of Labor. The presence of a strong labor union activity without the oppressive restrictions of the 1947 National Labor Relations Act would allow the country to flourish under the auspices of a revitalized activity among the proletariat. The removal of the 1947 ban on the strikes would provide the labor unions with the means and methods to solidify the opposition and productivity against the insidious corporations in the United States of America. The current format of the labor union represents an antiquated method of organization, and the United States of America requires a contemporary version to endure the brutal manifestations of the corporate slavery. The labor unions further provide the average worker with the employment security from the aggressive corporations, provide the opportunity for civic engagement, provide the opportunity to establish a communal identity, and provide the foundation for a new political party separate from the influences of the republican and the democratic parties in the United States of America. The most important aspect of the labor unions remain the implementation of a collective action among the proletariat to improve the lives of the population through the combined efforts of each individual, and the singular path through the darkness towards a bright future resides in the arms of the collective movement.
 
The links below ensure the advice remains a relevant feature for the discussion.
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/31/this-week-in-donald-trumps-conflicts-of-interest-trumps-getting-what-he-wants-at-mar-a-lago/
-recently-canceled-added-up-to-less-than-400000/]http://www.salon.com/2017/01/09/the-conflicts-of-interest-donald-[Sleezebag]-recently-canceled-added-up-to-less-than-400000/

[Unorthodox]

Love the there is no conflict I can do whatever the hell I want speech yesterday.