| sundin13 said: It conflicts with the country's interests. If you are president, the country's interests come before your own. If he is in a situation as president where a decision he could make in regards to foreign policy could benefit him financially, that is a clear conflict of interest. He has foreign ties all over the world. For example in South Korea where Trump Organization is partnered with Daewoo Engineering and Construction. Now Trump could very well be put in a situation where he has to make a decision about how to aid South Korea. Does he continue to provide American support or does he pull back and encourage them to develop their own military, including nuclear weapons? Well, wouldn't you know, Daewoo Engineering and Construction is one of the major companies involved in nuclear energy, so pushing for South Korea to militarize themselves could provide large financial gains to Daewoo, which would directly benefit Trump financially... You can't really get a more clear conflict of interest then that. Here is a more in depth look into some of the conflicts of interest which arise from Trump's business: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html |
Hmm, OMG Trump will lose 9 million dollars from licensing so he should definitely give in give in to the demands of small fry's LOL ...
FYI, Daewoo E&C's speciality isn't even an arms developer so how would they even begin making weapons let alone a nuclear one ?
South Korea would have better luck depending on it's own military to make nuclear weapons ...
| sundin13 said: So we shouldn't worry about blatant conflicts of interest in one branch because there are two more? That is an extremely dangerous precedent to set my friend. We should do everything in our power to remove such conflicts of interest, and unless Trump and his family pledge to step away from the business personally, we will be tied up with these massive conflicts of interest through the course of his presidency. |
If you think 9 million dollars worth (not even all of it) of potential conflict of interest is worse than taking in 165 million dollars in donations for granting special access then I think this discussion has met it's course ...
Yes, you've definitely convinced me that the Clinton Foundation is worse than The Trump Organization (which makes most of it's foreign money off of licensing or owning some shares) when it comes to conflicts of interests even though 85 people were granted access with the Secretary of State LOL ...
