Let's just see how much $$$ in government contracts goes to his company which of course he will have no control over while he's President but will have when he's not.
There's a doco on airforce one on you tube, it's well documented that the aircraft are very customized and fit for purpose. He's grand standing....likely someone forgot to tell him he's won the election...
GB, what have you got to say regarding the GS hires?
The conflict of interest laws in the US do not apply to the President. He could sit in the Oval Office running his company and be totally immune from any prosecution. Nixon famously said "it's not illegal, if the president does it"(turns out it was). He's also refused the long precedent of setting up a blind trust to manage his assets, or even placing management of them in an independent third party.
The President of Argentina called to congratulate Trump, Trump and his daughter pressed the president on some building permits in BA that were taking too long.
GB, what have you got to say regarding the GS hires?
Trump is going to make the Clinton's $2B "foundation" and hundreds of millions in paid speeches seem like a genuine charity and sharing of wisdom.
Sure. ok......
But to be fair to Trump, all US presidents and US policies have been to benefit big corporations anyway... Trump is just a whole lot smarter and see nothing wrong with his country, his administration benefiting his family's business too.
If the bin Saud, the Kims, the Comrades, the Tudors ran their little empire for their little clans... what's so special about the US and its First Family?
Real Politiks and what not.
Exactly. That's why I was no fan of Clinton. She'd been around way too long and was too secretive about pretty much everything. I don't buy the whole Mr Smith Goes to Washington thing that Trump is trying to sell either.
If America wasn't America I wouldn't give two sh!ts about who they elect president.
Democracies expect higher standards and the press may well tar and feather him if he goes too far.
Trump himself is not in it for the money.
He is in it for the glory!
He is 70 years old, why would he want more money?
I'm still very apprehensive about this "commitment to his country" business. At the extreme that Trump takes it to, disregarding how it alienates and disadvantages the 95% non-US citizens of the World, he crosses the line into dangerous Nationalism and economic Imperialism. History is full of precedents. Sadly, only very few learn anything from History and tend to repeat the same mistakes.He spends 10's of millions of his own money on a campaign, he refuses to be paid for the job. If that doesn't spell commitment to his country, I don't know what does.
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”
The Trump transition team dismissed the findings in a short statement issued Friday evening. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again,’ ” the statement read.
Trump has consistently dismissed the intelligence community’s findings about Russian hacking.
“I don’t believe they interfered” in the election, he told Time magazine this week. The hacking, he said, “could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.”
A foreign power actively trying to influence an electoral outcome, and Trump's response...
So it would seem he trusts Putin more than he trusts his own intelligence agencies. That cannot be good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.e86b51b00e58
A foreign power actively trying to influence an electoral outcome, and Trump's response...
So it would seem he trusts Putin more than he trusts his own intelligence agencies. That cannot be good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.e86b51b00e58
Are those WikiLeaks emails and documents false?
If not, then so what if Russia was behind the hack?
Any provision to annul the election based on external interference ?
My point was you would expect the President-elect to back his own government rather than a quasi-democratic foreign government.
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