Trump pledges to forgo his presidential salary during his time in the White House

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And on the flip side - he has handed his business concerns over to his kids.

So, if Trump gets into the White House, the president of the United States will be in a business deal with an Azerbaijani billionaire whose father is a prominent government official identified by American intelligence as a money launderer for the Iranian military. The Trump Organization’s partners in India would place America’s crucial but shaky alliance with Pakistan at risk. Relations between Trump and Turkey’s government are deteriorating in part because of his business connections there, and that country’s president has told people close to him that he will not allow a Trump-led America to use a military base that has been a critical staging area for the bombing campaign in Syria against the Islamic State group, known as ISIS. In other words, all these entanglements would imperil the national security of the United States.

And while his lawyer Thursday used the term “blind trust” when discussing the family’s upcoming financial arrangement, putting Trump’s children in charge of a set of assets that their father is aware of does not constitute a blind trust. Under the legal definition of a blind trust, a public official places his finances under the management of an independent party. (underline emphasis mine)

Does anyone not see a problem with this, oh wait - he's only taking a dollar a year for doing this job, so that's all good then.  


http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/30/donal...00398.html

Nope, not seeing a problem with it.

The Turkey thing is no problem at all - they can't be trusted anyhow. I dunno whose bone-headed idea it was to allow them into NATO in the first place, but clearly if they want to deny American access to the base there, then NATO is not the place for them... over and above the fact that they are a long way from the North Atlantic. It would be a lot more convenient and pragmatic to form an alliance with Syria and use bases there instead. If that were to happen, they might be able to see which way the Syrians are pointing more clearly so they can stop bombing the shit out of the wrong people.

The trust isn't a problem, either. Trump ain't running it, his kids are, and they aren't in office. If we don't see any signs of selling favor (not a claim Clinton could have made ever), then there isn't any problem at all. If there ever ARE any signs of it, I'm sure there are quite enough watchdogs just waiting for a faux pas to trumpet about, it would be common knowledge, and there are mechanisms in place to deal with that roughly.

So where is the problem?


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