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Trumps presidency, overseas business deals and relations with foreign governments could all become intertwinedBy Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger
Days after Donald Trumps election victory, a news agency in the former Soviet republic of Georgia reported that a long-stalled plan for a Trump-branded tower in a seaside Georgian resort town was now back on track.
Likewise, the local developer of a Trump Tower planned for Buenos Aires announced last week, three days after Trump spoke with Argentinas president, that the long-delayed project was moving ahead.
Meanwhile, foreign government leaders seeking to speak with Trump have reached out to the president-elect through his overseas network of business partners, an unusually informal process for calls traditionally coordinated with the U.S. State Department.
All of it highlights the muddy new world that Trumps election may usher in a world in which his stature as the U.S. president, the status of his private ventures across the globe and his relationships with foreign business partners and the leaders of their governments could all become intertwined.
In that world, Trump could personally profit if his election gives a boost to his brand and results in its expansion overseas. His political rise could also enrich his overseas business partners and, perhaps more significantly, enhance their statuses in their home countries and alter long-standing diplomatic traditions by establishing them as new conduits for public business.
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Trump's presidency, overseas business deals and relations with foreign governments could all... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2016
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spanone
(135,841 posts)1. could? WILL.
ARE!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. He's not sworn in yet and already cashing in.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. Already has:
1) Junior's meeting with Russia's allies re Syria
2) Trump pressuring foreign diplomats to stay at Trump Hotel in D.C.
3) Trump (and Ivanka) pressuring Argentine President to get permit for hotel in B.A.
For more see NYT article today on this subject:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opinion/donald-trumps-caldron-of-conflicts.html?emc=edit_th_20161126&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=57435284
And that's just for openers, when he isn't yet President!