After outcry, Trump Jr.'s foreign affairs speech changed to 'Fireside Chat'

[demmiblue]

Source: The Washington Post

NEW DELHI — Donald Trump Jr. landed in India earlier this week for a contractually obligated trip to promote his family’s branded real estate projects, but controversy seemed to dog the president’s eldest son at every turn.

The trip was meant to climax with a foreign policy speech at a business summit on “Indo-Pacific” relations, but amid the outcry over conflicts of interest between the family business and his father’s job, it was hastily changed to the more innocuous “A Fireside Chat With Donald Trump Jr.”

After a possible meeting with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Trump Jr. will be whisked away to another event, a dinner with buyers of Trump properties, which had prompted accusations of influence-peddling by ethics watchdogs.

“With this trip to India, the Trump Organization is literally selling access to the first family,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “It is providing condo buyers with a chance to curry favor with President Trump through that purchase and also giving them an opportunity for face-to-face communication with one of Trump’s sons.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/donald-trump-jrs-wild-indian-finale-a-controversial-speech-and-buyers-dinner/2018/02/23/b1c5af42-1731-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html?utm_term=.8cfde71299b9

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‘The level of scrutiny is ridiculous’: Don Jr. whines to Indian reporters that Russia investigation is a waste of time

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/level-scrutiny-ridiculous-don-jr-whines-indian-reporters-russia-investigation-waste-time/

[Angry Dragon]

1. all guilty people say that

[hlthe2b]

2. His sons are monsters.. I hate to think what they will be emboldened to do in the future if

Mueller fails to hold at least JR accountable

[nocalflea]

3. Conjuring up FDR.

How dare that treasonus piece of shit witless daddy's boy.

[logosoco]

5. On behalf of the memory of FDR and all that he did for the citizens of the USA

I would like to tell this little trump weasel "FUCK OFF!!"

[nocalflea]

9. Hear ! Hear ! And for all that's great and glorious about the US of A:

little trump weasel ,

FUCK OFF!!

[dchill]

17. Bastard.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The whole family needs to be locked up

They are just running buck wild.

[SayItLoud]

6. Secret Service and plane seats

So, how much did the grifters tRUMP charge the Secret Service per seat to fly on tRUMP's aging battle wagon?

[catbyte]

7. Sleazy, sleazy, sleazy. I wonder if he scheduled an elephant murdering trip while he was at it

[Tanuki]

8. I guess-he wanted to out-do his corrupt sister's trip to India last November

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567404301/ivanka-trump-promotes-female-entrepreneurs-while-in-india

..."Some put the gushing over Trump down to Indian love of celebrities. Others cited her access — as the daughter of President Donald Trump — to the Oval Office.

Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, chairman and CEO of IKP Knowledge Park, an incubator for startups, said Trump was "projected as a state guest, and a state guest would get that kind of treatment."

But Chattopadhyay also said Trump was a "novelty," and the fact that she was a bona fide entrepreneur bumped up her relevance among the entrepreneurs from more than 100 countries.

Trump has stepped aside from the management of her apparel line since becoming adviser to her father.

Her clothing brand is sourced from factories mostly in China, where female workers dominate the low-wage industry. Allegations of labor abuse involving Trump's supply chain have surfaced.

In a letter, 23 labor and human rights groups told Trump that her clothing line makes a mockery of President Trump's "Buy American, Hire American" mandate, and urged her to publicly disclose the names and locations of the factories making Trump-branded products.

Many delegates in Hyderabad demurred when asked whether such alleged business practices collided with the theme of the summit: the empowerment of women. But not Harish Hande, CEO of Selco, a social enterprise that promotes sustainable energy for the poor.

"I see a complete contradiction because – what are we pushing for? Inclusivity in the business, right?" he said.

Hande said India itself needs to pull "600 million poor" into better living conditions and that "exploiting poverty" is no solution.

"You don't hire poor just because you get cheap labor," Hande said.
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Acharya and others said it perhaps would have been better to put the spotlight on a woman entrepreneur who had struggled more than Ivanka Trump, who had a privileged start.".....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. thanks for the link

I missed that one.

Yet another TrumPutin displaying rank hypocrisy and corruption.

[malthaussen]

10. He can light the fire with his pants. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

11. "Can't Stand The Heat..."

The door for your whole useless family to use as an exit is right over there Uday.

[Bayard]

12. I don't think India is known to have a bunch of fireplaces

So, what fire is he planning on sitting beside? People burning Rump Sr. in effigy?

[Tanuki]

14. I hope he will sit by a cow dung fire in one of the villages

http://www.shalusharma.com/cow-dung-is-still-used-in-india-for-cooking/

[jmowreader]

15. How far do you have to sit from the burning dumpster?

[MGKrebs]

16. "The level of scrutiny is riduculous."

I can think of a couple of other families who might think the same thing, dumbass.
I guess Trumps are supposed to be immune from the scrutiny they welcome on others.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Chinless wonder.

[smirkymonkey]

19. I just can't believe the shit that this family is getting away with.

Can't anybody stop them? This can't be legal, and it certainly isn't ethical. And who is paying for these "business trips"? If it's the American taxpayer, that is a violation right there.