Interesting show about Trump's conflicts of interest

[about_average]

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/50398...ntial-conflicts-of-interest-theyre-everywhere

The link has a couple of highlights, but the audio is 36 minutes.

The Post Office building, a few blocks from the White House, that the Trump Organization is leasing to operate the new Trump International Hotel ... is owned by the General Services Administration — essentially the federal government — and it's leased to the Trump family, and the president is going to appoint the head of the GSA, and at the same time as this family is leasing the building from the GSA. ... There's a provision in the contract that the Trump Organization signed that no federal employee should benefit from this lease. So how can he simultaneously be the tenant and the landlord in this contract, essentially, because he appoints the guy who oversees the agency?

Another interesting part was pointing out Trump will be making appointments to the NLRB, the people who help resolve disputes between unions and Trump's businesses.

 

[dan_c00000]

The NY Times had a good piece on Trump's global conflicts of interest. We'll see how much his racist base loves him when he sells them at to make an extra million.

Even before he's taken office Trump's sold out his base.

 

[rawsilk]

The NY Times had a good piece on Trump's global conflicts of interest. We'll see how much his racist base loves him when he sells them at to make an extra million.

Even before he's taken office Trump's sold out his base.

Trump's global conflicts of interest all look like nice holiday destinations he could write off as tax deductions. Pleased to see we in Australia have no exposure to this man. He may not be allowed to do business here with his record of bankruptcies.

 

[Iceprincess12]

No matter how much you dislike him, he is still the President. Do you think you can keep your contempt as fresh in 4 years as it is now? Will you be supportive of any of his successes as you will be giddy of his failures?

I hope he has some sexual scandals that are better than jizz on my dress.

 

[about_average]

No matter how much you dislike him, he is still the President. Do you think you can keep your contempt as fresh in 4 years as it is now? Will you be supportive of any of his successes as you will be giddy of his failures?

I hope he has some sexual scandals that are better than jizz on my dress.

I think you must have posted in the wrong thread because it has nothing to do with the topic or anything anyone has posted.

 

[JoanneA]

appointments to the NLRB, the people who help resolve disputes between unions and Trump's businesses.

http://www.npr.org/people/2100593/terry-gross

 

[KingOrfeo]

I hope he has some sexual scandals that are better than jizz on my dress.

He's 70 years old. He's probably a bit past doing much more than groping.

 

[about_average]

http://www.npr.org/people/2100593/terry-gross

I'm not getting the reference.

 

[dan_c00000]

Trump's global conflicts of interest all look like nice holiday destinations he could write off as tax deductions. Pleased to see we in Australia have no exposure to this man. He may not be allowed to do business here with his record of bankruptcies.

Well he did make an awful joke about an Australian Miss Universe contestant. Plus he talked about revenge at some business conference in Sydney.

Do you think you can keep your contempt as fresh in 4 years as it is now? Will you be supportive of any of his successes as you will be giddy of his failures?

I hope he has some sexual scandals that are better than jizz on my dress.

1. Yes, I do. In fact, I still have unlimited contempt for Bush II.

2. He won't have any success only failures because that's what he is. He's a living, breathing example of just how corrupt the American political system has become.

3. You have some strange hopes.

 

[rawsilk]

Well he did make an awful joke about an Australian Miss Universe contestant. Plus he talked about revenge at some business conference in Sydney.

That is all vile, repulsive and revolting.
I am wondering if there may be a reason he creates such a noise, was he trying deflect some other problem, like one of his scams going wrong?

Ha! Just a quick Google and it seems Trump University was closed down because it was just a giant scam in 2011 when he was insulting ex Miss Universe. He probably wanted to get Trump University scam off the headlines by humiliating a defenseless woman in public.

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://congressionalresearch.com/RS21656/document.php

A blind trust, as discussed in this report, is a device employed by a federal official
to hold, administer and manage the private financial assets, investments and ownerships
of the official, and his or her spouse and dependant children, as a method of conflict of
interest avoidance. In establishing a qualified blind trust upon the approval of the
appropriate supervisory ethics entity, the official transfers, without restriction, control
and management of private assets to an independent trustee who may not communicate
information about the identity of the holdings in the trust to the official. The trust is
considered “blind” because eventually, through the sale of transferred assets and the
purchase of new ones, the public officer will be shielded from knowledge of the identity
of the specific assets in the trust. Without such knowledge, conflict of interest issues
would be avoided because no particular asset in the trust could act as an influence upon
the official duties that the officer performs for the Government.

To enforce conflict of interest provisions, to deter the ownership of
assets which may raise ethical problems, and to provide public information and
assurances concerning the ethical conduct of high-level Government officials, the identity
and categories of amount of one’s assets, ownerships, and property (as well as other
detailed financial information), must be publicly disclosed by high-level federal officials
upon entering Government and every year thereafter, under the provisions of the Ethics
in Government Act of 1978

The nature of a “blind trust,” generally, is such that the federal official will have no
control over, will receive no communications about, and will (eventually as existing assets
are sold and new ones obtained by the trustee) have no knowledge of the identity of the
specific assets held in the trust.

 

[Denotion]

Another interesting part was pointing out Trump will be making appointments to the NLRB, the people who help resolve disputes between unions and Trump's businesses.

An even larger issue IMO is that Trump owes BILLIONS of dollars to banks around the country (and likely globally). He'll now be appointing bank regulators and head of the Treasury, Fed chairman and other regulators to banks. How long until the Trump organization refinances all of their loans at 50ish years and 1.5% interest rates?

He's already been talking about doing away with the Dodd Frank regulation and scrapping the DOL's new securities industry regulation on retirement plans. What else is he going to do for that sweet refi?

 

[dan_c00000]

I am wondering if there may be a reason he creates such a noise, was he trying deflect some other problem, like one of his scams going wrong?

His scams never go wrong. There's always someone else to blame: shoddy workmanship (even though the Donald hired them and he's supposedly only hires the best), it was rigged (even though he won), or the judge was a Mexican (he wasn't). It's pure ego.