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Pence on Trumps unprecedented conflicts of interest: Who cares?
The Trump administration is shrugging off how much the Trump family plans to profit off the presidency.
Donald Trump may not be taking his $400,000 presidential salary, but his business meeting this week with Indian real estate developers suggests his company will profit far more just because hes the president. Asked about this unprecedented conflict of interest Sunday morning on Fox News Sunday, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence shrugged it off, quoting Trump, Who cares?
Pence insisted that there would be a legal separation between the presidency and the Trump business, but host Chris Wallace pressed that it was more than a legal question. There was no response regarding that conflict. The President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, is completely focused on the peoples business, Pence said, and I promise you and I can assure the public that theyll have the proper separation from their business enterprise.
The exact opposite seems to be true. Trumps meeting with three Indian executives to discuss their partnership with the Trump Organization had nothing to do with the transition. It was not about advancing the American people, but advancing Trumps profits.
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The line between his business and his duties as president is further blurred by the prospect that foreign diplomats might stay at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. They could brag to Trump that they stayed there and fed into his profits in an attempt to literally buy his favor and the ability to influence him.
There have been many promises that there will be a separation between Trumps presidency and his business holdings, but its essentially too late for any such promises to be reassuring. Hes continuing to hold meetings related to his business, and his kids, who were supposedly going to run the business without his involvement, are already participating in meetings related to his administration. Given the people in these business meetings already know hes about to be president, the conflict of interest is already playing out. Trump is leveraging his election to make his company money across the world, and his administration literally doesnt care.
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Pence on Trump's unprecedented conflicts of interest: Who cares? (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2016
OP
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)1. No one cares if it is a Republican
doing it
spanone
(135,843 posts)2. pence's word means absolutely nothing.
malaise
(269,026 posts)3. Pence did the same and had to drop out of a Congressional Race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html
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Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
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Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
lastlib
(23,241 posts)4. Hey, Pence! WE care, Fuckstick!