| Insidb said: 1) Sorry about the article subscription. My concern lies in his close connections to Russian mafia members (Sater is the son of a boss.), as Putin has them under his thumb. The families have effectively been consolidated (Pledge allegiance or die.). A lot of them have disappeared in the last couple of years, and a few have resurfaced as devout Russian nationalists. One of the more peculiar occurences have been Russian investors who miss major deal meetings; most don't resurface. This has started to become more commonplace with Chinese investors now, so we're collectively concerned about it impacting the investment community. If you're familiar with the industry, you know that Russian investment diminished and was surpassed by Chinese: this started with the consolidation and dovetailed into OPEC breaking the Russian economy, while attempting to price out the American shale oil companies. 2) I actually visited Monticello, and most of the furnishings are replicas, near-duplicates, and or reclaimed property. The reason is that Jefferson had to auction off most of his estate, because he was in such massive debt. By all rights, he was the master of his own undoing: he spent half of his presidential salary on wine lol. He also inherited signifcant debt from his marriage in 1774 and got himself caught up in bad lending arrangements with farmers, banks, and welathy individuals. I see high income-low networth and vice versa people all the time, and the latter usually get trippped up by their illiquidity (because they need the banks and financiers to capitalize on their equity); the former usually end up like MC Hammer. The bottom line is that high net worth people, especially those relying on hard money lenders, are often beholden to said lenders and "who" is more important than "how much." 3) You ever live in NYC or a high-rise building? "One block away," during any crisis situation, might as well be a mile. During "alarm" situations, elevators also go through a recall process that sends them to the first floor. Only a fire marshal can use his key to commandeer the elevator, which makes Trump's 58 flights of stairs a mite bit of an issue. There's a petition to defray the now-estimated $1MM cost to protect Trump in NYC; that's $365MM+/year or (assuming he's not impeached) $1.5B+/term. That's on him and total BS. 4) Daily news: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/01/us/politics/trump-conflict-of-interests.html |
1) Do you have any evidence that Felix Sater carries is father's obligations ? Family members being connected to terrorists does not mean that they will automatically pose as a threat and likewise for similar arguments ... (You need to show absolute evidence that proves BEYOND DOUBT that Trump is connected to Russia otherwise it'll become a precedent of a conspiracy theory!)
3) Four Seasons Hotel is literally just 300 meters (agents could decide to engage outside targets further away making even less need to rush in a crisis) away from Trump Tower so the Secret Service does have a realistic alternative to renting out space in Trump Towers in spite of what you say. Trump isn't the one forcing them to rent his place, that's on them for thinking that the convenience is worth so much ...
4) There's more than one solution to a problem in many of these cases where Trump doesn't have to go out of his way to interfere when it's not yet his job to take the office since he's president-elect ... (that means the current adminisitration must do their part to make way for him)
If the General Services Administration is leasing to the Trump Organization then they have an option to revoke it ...
Also it is the current DOJ who must force Deutsche Bank into a settlement if they don't want any future conflicts of interest ...
IRS and NLRB are pretty much whatever since any executive action will pose a conflict of interest from those organizations whether he has a business or not ...
Trump's businesses abroad are affected by a sovereign nation's domestic policy, foreign policy can't exactly do that especially when Trump takes a rather isolationist approach when he's shown to be very skeptical about NATO ...
