You conflate the issue. The issue is whether or not he will use his public position to advance his multi billion dollar global financial interests. In this instance, he intermingles both.
The claim is that Trump is not controlled by outsider money— the question is — is he controlled by his own financial interests?
‘The issue is whether or not he will use his public position to advance his multi billion dollar global financial interests. In this instance, he intermingles both.’
Your point is a disingenuous non-sequitur. What Mr. Trump does and what President Trump does are two entirely separate issues.
If you were banned from Rhode Island, would you buy a house or apartment building there?
What? Why not? Then you are intermingling your personal interests with your standards that you expect from others.
Of course you wouldn’t...and of course Mr. Trump would not either. It’s really that simple and requires no imagined and false narratives.
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).