[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Deep State and their media enablers are out to destroy our constitutionally elected President, his family, business interests, and associates.

[butlerweave]

YAWN , Bill Clinton was the advance party for Hillary to set up the amount of money the US would give away and the donations the Clinton Foundation would get in kickbacks

[Jim Robinson]

Did our Founders envision government being run solely by professional politicians, ie, no business owners allowed in office?

[pugmama]

Leaking already from what the DOJ/FBI found during the Cohen raid?

[Fhios]

Non issue. 1 Trump is not directing his own company and 2. Lobbying is not illegal.

[plain talk]

"While never mentioning Trump or his role as president, the letter says lawyers representing the Trump Organization were aware of "the separation of powers" in Panama but essentially asks the country's president to intervene in the judicial process anyway."

That is the key quote. Nothing here.

[Sarah Barracuda]

So now Trump colluded with Panama LOL..gee if only throughout the 8 years of Obama we could have gotten all the juicy secrets I wonder what we could have learned..oh yeah almost forgot, its racist to go after Obama and the looney left..with Conservatives its A OK

[enumerated]

Well, at least Trump didn’t give away the Panama Canal.

Carter did that, thus proving that a President can harm US strategic, economic and security interests, even with no potentially conflicting foriegn business interests at all. (Wait, did Carter sell peanuts in Panama?).

...and at least Trump didn’t get our ambassador and 5 others killed in Ben Ghazi just to cover up a foriegn policy embarrassment weeks prior to his reelection.

Obama did that, thus proving that a President can harm US strategic, economic and security interests, even with no potentially conflicting foriegn business interests at all. (Wait, did Obama sell his books in Libya?).

...and at least Trump didn’t let his SoS get rich selling state secrets and strategic assets to the highest bidder while still in office.

Obama and the Clintons did that, thus proving that a President, SoS and ex president can harm US strategic, economic and security interests, even with no potentially conflicting foriegn business interests at all. (Wait, did Clinton sell Uranium or just give it away?).

It’s amazing how the NYT and Washington Post can never think of any scandals to write about while Democrats are in office.

[Wuli]

The disagreement precedes Trump getting elected. The legal argument does not sound very different than any American real estate management company would make. We do have a treaty with Panama regarding contracts and any could lawyer would bring that up. Treaties, even here in the U.S., are often considered as much “basic” law as the Constitution, and all the legal priority that goes with it.

[Skywise]

more Fake news.

If Trump did nothing he effectively recused himself.
Even iF Trump did something - if he did it within the law - he still did it legally and ethically.

[blueplum]

The article is misleading. Trump exercises no control over the Trump Org, Trump Jr has taken the helm. The fact that Trump Jr's father is president, has no relation to this story of a hostile takeover and anything that may arise from that, including evoking treaties to protect American business interests.

If the press were honest, they'd make that distinction but they aren't so they won't. And that is why we come to FR instead :)

[falcon99]

The biggest joke in the whole article was the term “ethics experts”. We’ve seen how those experts in Obama’s admin saw nothing wrong with anything while under Trump, everything is an ethics violation. Ethics to these experts are what they agree with politically — another area that the Dems have destroyed.

[Monorprise]

How is this not a legitimate case of a forign country violating treaties to steal u.s. property?