Posted on 11/03/2016 11:04:59 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
Donald Trump’s adult children have spent a decade doing business with politically connected foreign firms—a role that will present potential conflicts of interest whether he wins on Nov. 8 or continues to pursue politics if he loses.
Those whom Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have worked with abroad include: the family of a developer in India who is a ruling-party politician, an Azerbaijani government minister’s son and a media company that became the Turkish president’s outlet of choice during the July 15 coup attempt.
No recent president has had a portfolio of international business interests as extensive as Mr. Trump’s—or as great a level of business engagement on his behalf by offspring, who have also played a role in his campaign.
(snip)Mr. Trump’s campaign referred questions to Mr. Garten. The three Trump children didn’t respond to requests for comment sent through the campaign and the company.
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I’ll take my chances with Trumps entanglements over the Beasts any day........she’s already shown what her “entanglements” have brought down on this country!
As opposed to Hillary who has NO foreign business.
Pretty far.
But its true that few US politicians to date have had such wealth, assets and business record. Anyone in Trumps situation would have extensive international business contacts.
Romney did have quite a few actually, and so of course did Nelson Rockefeller, through his family.
WSJ - THhe obits of financial information
When there is nothing remaining to be scraped from the barrel’s bottom, it’s poke time. Shovel’s ready to dig deep.
Different maybe, but unparalleled?
Hellary’s would be unparalleled, illegal, and catastrophic.
For heaven’s sake. What about hillary accepting pilfered questions for at least one debate against Sanders precluding her from being Commander in Chief? Duty, HONOR, and country should mean something to a candidate for President.
The Wall Street Journal has been a propaganda organ of the Cheap Labor Express for years.
They are very worried that the Cheap Labor Express will be shut down.
Oh, but selling US influence as Sec. of State is just fine?
FUWSJ
ha ha ha
meanwhile,HiLIARy has been going around (with her supposed husband) collecting bribe money from dozens of ENEMY AGENTS and representatives of ENEMY dictatorships Moslems especially from the Gulf all the way to the (somewhat more benign) Moslem king of Moracco...
plus enemyNaziSoroz $$$$$$$$ flowing for HilLIARy through numerous front groups and fake groups
and the Clintons sold our out nuclear missile control technology (for multiple re-entry vehicles, so that five nuclear bombs can destroy 5 different American cities, all shot from a single rocket) to the Communist Chinese
and the Clintons have sold a major portion of our American nuclear fuels, uranium...to foreign interests, too
but of course, HilLIARy is not compromised AT ALL.
only Mr Trump is compromised because he owns a couple of hotels and a golf course
He has no say and does not deal with them. Then what is the problem?
And what crimes has Trump been involved in again?
Except Trump says he will separate from his biz once elected.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Mr. Trump has been busy building a global real estate empire, and other business interests for decades.
Who would have thought that during that time he would have developed contacts and cultivated both business and personal relationships?
Hardly. He turns it over to his kids. They run the businesses, and he runs the country.
It just makes it look better, for sure.
The difference being his doing business is legal, whereas the Clinton’s foreign fundraising , and receipt of foreign payoffs to their foundation and Global Initiative are illegal. If elected, Hillary and Bill will continue to line their pockets with money by using their position to conduct more illegal business.
Some of the Founding Fathers had interests which arguably could have involved conflicts of interest. But they were men of honor, and no one will suggest that they risked everything to win our sovereignty, to feather their own nests, as it were. Meanwhile, in the far less ethical America we live in today, we allow people who take unearned benefits from Government to vote for those who deliberately buy their votes with other people's money.
I am all for dealing with the really egregious conflicts of interest; but this article is a foolish diversion from what we should be working on: Electing Donald Trump!
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