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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre there legal sanctions against conflicts of interest...
.... between the President's business dealings and his duties as President? Or is it all just convention?
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)".... between the President's business dealings and his duties as President? Or is it all just convention?"
doc03
(35,363 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)And look what happened to him
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Though you'll be chagrined to learn there is no remedy or consequence likely to occur ~
We are through the looking glass
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/23/13715150/donald-trump-emoluments-clause-constitution
question everything
(47,522 posts)The President is exempt from federal conflict-of-interest laws, but Mr. Trumps plan is already hitting political turbulence. Earlier this week Ivanka Trumps jewelry company took heat for promoting a $10,800 diamond bangle that Ms. Trump donned during a family interview on CBSs 60 Minutes.
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The alternatives are fraught, perhaps even for the Trump Organizations bottom line: Thanks to a Clinton Administration precedent, Presidents can face litigation in private mattersso the company will become a supermagnet for lawsuits.
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The political damage to a new Administration could be extensive. If Mr. Trump doesnt liquidate, he will be accused of a pecuniary motive any time he takes a policy position. For example, the House and Senate are eager to consider tax reformand one sticking point will be the treatment of real estate, which will be of great interest to the Trump family business. Ditto for repealing the Dodd-Frank financial law, interest rates and so much more.
The conflicts span the globe, including a loan from the Bank of China and likely dealings with sovereign-wealth funds. Along the way Mr. Trump could expose himself to charges, however unfair, that he is violating the Constitutions Emoluments Clause, which prohibits public officials from accepting gifts or payment from foreign governments.
Mixing money and politics could undermine his pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If a backlash allows Democrats to retake the House in 2018, Mr. Trump and his business colleagues would field subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee. Ranking minority member Elijah Cummings this week expressed his enthusiasm for such a project, and answering daily questions about this cant be how Mr. Trump wants to spend his political capital.
MORE..
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-family-political-business-1479426984
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)... as a COI if for instance one of the foreign diplomats stay in a DPutin hotel for a night and liked it... fuck it then... impeach his ass.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Don't hold your breath waiting for those clowns to do something about it.
ananda
(28,874 posts)We don't.