Posted on 01/06/2016 6:12:09 PM PST by VinL
Donald Trump will scrap $1 billion of planned investments in Britain if he is banned from entering the country, a spokesman for the US politician's business empire said on Wednesday.
British lawmakers are expected to debate whether the Republican presidential candidate should be barred from Britain for an alleged "hate speech", a move the Trump Organization said would set a "dangerous precedent".
The organisation said the US tycoon had planned to invest a total of £700 million pounds (950 million euros, $1 billion) in two golf courses he owns in Scotland.
"Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom," spokesman George Sorial said in a statement.
"Westminster would create a dangerous precedent and send a terrible message to the world that the United Kingdom opposes free speech and has no interest in attracting inward investment."
Parliament is due to debate whether Trump should be banned on January 18, after an online petition calling for him to be barred gathered more than 570,000 signatures.
Lawmakers are obliged to consider for debate any official petition that reaches 100,000 signatures, but no decision is taken at the end of the session.
The petition accused Trump of hate speech after his call last month for Muslims to be temporarily denied entry to the United States, following a mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple said to have been radicalised.
He has also in recent months labelled Mexican immigrants rapists and mocked a disabled reporter by mimicking him.
Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned Trump's remarks on Muslims as "divisive, stupid and wrong" but does not support banning him. (snip)
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‘That’s because an incoherency’
A man does not spend money in a place that a man is not welcome.
The man does not spend his money there because he is not welcome there, not because the man is evil.
The man is smart.
Only a stupid man would spend his money where he is not welcome.
A smart man is not an evil man.
Some men pretend to be smart.
But even when a man pretends to be smart, it does not make him evil.
It simply means he is not smart enough to know he is not smart.
Ungrateful drivel.
That’s fair enough. And that remains to be seen. When and if he becomes President, it will all be out in the open. So if he pursuits a policy that is in his own financial interests but goes against the interests of the country, then it will be out there for people to see. And by the way, every person who holds the office of President is in a position to effect policy to benefit themselves. At least with regards to Trump it will be out in the open and he won’t be helping himself by helping his rich backers who are hiding in the shadows. So we’ll see.
And if Trump makes a policy decision that is unequivocally good for the country, and it also benefits him financially, then knock yourself out Trump, as long as he puts the country’s interests first.
At any rate, what we’re dealing with regarding his threat to withhold a billion in investments doesn’t even fall into that category, because in this case, he would be hurting his own financial interests by withholding an investment that he had already planned on (presumably he felt the investment was in his best interests or he wouldn’t have been planning on it in the first place).
It appears quite clear that trump intends to co-mingle his private business with his public position.
What a load of $hit from the Guru of Goofiness.
Ah.. but we must remember.. "the dogs bark.. but the caravan moves on"
I was merely responding to the point that suggests that because Trump takes no donations ( and others do) that he is not financially conflicted- arguably, he’s more conflicted than any of them since his personal financial holdings run into the billions, and are global.
read an adult reply at post #71— oh...sorry...ask mommy if she’ll read and explain it to you.
If you're alluding to that as "adult" then you must also believe you have a developed intellect and that you're using it. You're NOT!
I will say, however, you have one of the more pronounced cases of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" seen on FR.
Fair enough. But again, if he uses the Presidency as a vehicle to enrich himself at the expense of the country, it will be hard to hide. Other candidates, while having less personal wealth at stake are so dependent on others (backers, lobbyists, etc.), that it’s not always obvious that they’re doing something out of self interest when they are. It’s all in the shadows, because the relationships are largely hidden from the public. It will be harder for Trump to hide such self-interested actions than it is for your typical bought and paid for politician.
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