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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's the COVER of Newsweek for tomorrow
From Rachel's screenshots -
"A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its partners, reveals an enterprise with deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians and even criminals, although there is no evidence the Trump organization has engaged in any illegal activities.
It also reveals a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled. If Trump moves into the White House and his family continues to receive any benefit from the company, during or even after his presidency, almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires.
If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States?"
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NEWSWEEK to release Trump financial conflicts.
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Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)bombshell issue.
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)better late then never?
after just watching a rachel rerun, these connections should disqualify him from the presidency. How could they ever give him a top secret clearance, ever!!!
even if he cut his business ties, he could never keep what he knows to himself and would surely blab to his world connections.............he's a CON!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)It's a medical condition and we need to know exactly what it, how likely it will kill him in office, and if it is communicable...say through shaking supporters' hands or kissing their babies.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)dflprincess
(28,078 posts)and just minutes to live.
True, I'm not a doctor, but I read things on the internet so I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about.
Tactical Peek
(1,209 posts)"Clintons email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House lost 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in Americas recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons."
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Great find
Hekate
(90,686 posts)groundloop
(11,519 posts)He's been the golden (orange?) example of ' no publicity is bad publicity'.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)spanone
(135,832 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)I have been waiting forever for someone in the media to pin him down on this.
From a couple of statements he has made, it sounds to me as if he is intending to continue business as usual while President.
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)There will be no blind trust
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)BlueStateLib
(937 posts)"If I become president, I couldn't care less about my company. It's peanuts. I want to use that same up here, whatever it may be to make America rich again, and to make America great again. I have Ivanka and Eric and Don sitting there. Run the company, kids. Have a good time. I'm going to do it for America. ... I would put it in a blind trust. Well, I don't know if it's a blind trust if Ivanka, Don and Eric run it. But is that a blind trust? I don't know. But I would probably have my children run it with my executives. And I wouldn't ever be involved, because I wouldn't care about anything but our country. Anything."
A campaign spokeswoman said this week that nothing has changed since he made that statement. In other words: No blind trust.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)Selling cover in NW history. The only ones buying it will hang the same name. MAGGOT.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)image warning next time!
barbtries
(28,794 posts)has realized that a trump presidency would be catastrophic. bringing the truth to light. it's truly refreshing to see this. hopefully those outlets that feed the news to most people will follow up and report on these stories. it's important.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)It reminds me of the "exposé" ABC news did on Reagan when he was running for the 2nd term. 5 minutes of RR on screen, no one remembers much of the story but the image lasts. Reagan's press secretary thanked Diane Sawer for the free PR. I bet that blond politibot working for Trump does the same with Newsweek's editorial board.
niyad
(113,306 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)and Hillary still hasn't given them enough medical records.
sellitman
(11,606 posts)My right wing friend uses it constantly when trying to press a point.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He just keeps getting uglier and more disgusting.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Typical.