See that's the conflict of interest you get if you vote businessmen to office. Their first loyalty will always be to their personal bottom line, even if that means doing things against the interest of the people.
Official Trump Corruption Thread: Trump is mixing business with politics
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Pay to Play politics. This should obviously be investigated by a special prosecutor. It is a major abuse of power and a huge conflict of interest.
I just wonder if some of you would have supported the same against Hillary for the Clinton Foundation and her Speeches on Wall Street.
I would ask the same of the supporters of Trump who would be foaming at the mouth about Clinton's pay to play past if she won.
And that's the problem with government corruption. We tend to overlook it or even defend it when "our side" does it.
I just wonder if some of you would have supported the same against Hillary for the Clinton Foundation and her Speeches on Wall Street.
I would ask the same of the supporters of Trump who would be foaming at the mouth about Clinton's pay to play past if she won.
And that's the problem with government corruption. We tend to overlook it or even defend it when "our side" does it.
mc_brew
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amen.... i thought i was the only one who noticed that....
Except. Bill and Hillary never used the CF like Trump is or did. Especially in office.
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the funny thing is, Hillary supporters acknowledge she was a terrible candidate.
trump supporters troll and make excuses for him. if you voted for trump you are on the wrong side of history. period.
trump supporters troll and make excuses for him. if you voted for trump you are on the wrong side of history. period.
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Trump Meeting Suggests He Is Keeping Up His Business Ties
Donald Trump Meeting Suggests He Is Keeping Up His Business Ties
By ERIC LIPTON and NOV. 19, 2016
A billboard for Trump Tower Mumbai in India. Donald J. Trump met this week with businessmen linked to the building. Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump met in the last week in his office at Trump Tower with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded luxury apartment complex south of Mumbai, raising new questions about how he will separate his business dealings from the work of the government once he is in the White House.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump described the meeting as a courtesy call by the three Indian real estate executives, who flew from India to congratulate Mr. Trump on his election victory. In a picture posted on Twitter, all four men are smiling and giving a thumbs-up.
“It was not a formal meeting of any kind,” Breanna Butler, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, said when asked about the meeting on Saturday.
One of the businessmen, Sagar Chordia, posted photographs on Facebook on Wednesday showing that he also met with Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. Mr. Trump’s children are helping to run his businesses as they play a part in the presidential transition.
Ms. Butler and Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, declined to comment when asked on Saturday if the meeting with the Trump family members included any discussion of Trump businesses in India or expanding that business.
The three Indian executives — Sagar Chordia, Atul Chordia, and Kalpesh Mehta — have been quoted in Indian newspapers, including The Economic Times, as saying they have discussed expanding their partnership with the Trump Organization now that Mr. Trump is president-elect.
Sagar Chordia did not respond to a request for a telephone interview. But in a series of text messages with The New York Times early Sunday, he confirmed that the meeting with Mr. Trump and members of his family had taken place, and that an article written about it in the Indian newspaper, which reported that one of his partners said they had discussed the desire to expand the deals with the Trump family, was accurate.
Washington ethics lawyers said that a meeting with Indian real estate partners, regardless of what was discussed, raised conflict of interest questions for Mr. Trump, who could be perceived as using the presidency to advance his business interests.
“There may be people for whom this looks O.K.,” said Robert L. Walker, the former chief counsel of the Senate Ethics Committee, who advises corporations and members of Congress on government ethics issues. “But for a large part of the American public, it is not going to be O.K. His role as president-elect should dictate that someone else handles business matters.”
In an account of the meeting that appeared in The Economic Times, Mr. Trump was quoted as praising the United States’ relationship with India and its prime minister, Narendra Modi.
The Economic Times reported that the meeting occurred on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization would not confirm the day of the meeting.
Internationally, many properties that bear Mr. Trump’s name are the result of marketing deals — like the one in India — in which he is paid by someone for the use of his name but does not actually own the underlying property. He has such marketing agreements in South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, the Philippines and Turkey, according to a list published by his company.
Atul Chordia and Sagar Chordia are well-known figures in real estate in Pune, a city of about three million people in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Their father, Ishwardas Chordia, was born into a family of sugar traders, but as a young man forged a close friendship with Sharad Pawar, who became an important politician in Maharashtra and now sits in the upper house of India’s Parliament.
Beginning in the 1990s, Chordia businesses built luxury hotels, corporate parks and residential projects in upscale neighborhoods in Pune.
The third executive at the meeting, Mr. Mehta, is the managing partner of a real-estate firm named Tribeca, which is also a part of the Trump projects in India, which go by names including Trump Towers Pune and Trump Towers Mumbai.
Dave Besseling, a former deputy editor at GQ India, hosted an event at Sagar Chordia’s hotel during the 2016 presidential campaign and said Mr. Chordia expressed “elation” about Mr. Trump’s candidacy and the opportunities it would bring.
The same week, Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka — an executive at the Trump Organization hotel chain — attended a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The move drew criticism from former State Department officials, given that Ms. Trump does not have security clearance and is helping run the family business enterprises.
Separately, The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the recently opened Trump International Hotel in Washington invited representatives from local embassies to the hotel after the election to encourage them to use it when leaders from their countries visited Washington.
Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a liberal government watchdog group in Washington, said the meeting at Trump Tower was inappropriate even if there had not been conversation about business. “Donald Trump’s children and son-in-law have been deeply involved in the transition and selecting who will be part of his administration,” Mr. Bookbinder said. “At the same time they are deeply involved in the business. There does not seem to be any sign of a meaningful separation of Trump government operations and his business operations.”
Ms. Butler, the spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, said the family was moving to try to formally separate Mr. Trump from his family’s business ventures.
“Mr. Trump is not going to have dealings in the day-to-day business of that organization,” she said.
Another spokeswoman for the Trump Organization added in a written statement that “the structure that is ultimately selected will comply with all applicable rules and regulations.”
Asked if such a separation had already taken place in the aftermath of the election, she said she did not know.
Trump Meeting Suggests He Is Keeping Up His Business Ties
Donald Trump Meeting Suggests He Is Keeping Up His Business Ties
By ERIC LIPTON and NOV. 19, 2016
A billboard for Trump Tower Mumbai in India. Donald J. Trump met this week with businessmen linked to the building. Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump met in the last week in his office at Trump Tower with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded luxury apartment complex south of Mumbai, raising new questions about how he will separate his business dealings from the work of the government once he is in the White House.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump described the meeting as a courtesy call by the three Indian real estate executives, who flew from India to congratulate Mr. Trump on his election victory. In a picture posted on Twitter, all four men are smiling and giving a thumbs-up.
“It was not a formal meeting of any kind,” Breanna Butler, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, said when asked about the meeting on Saturday.
One of the businessmen, Sagar Chordia, posted photographs on Facebook on Wednesday showing that he also met with Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. Mr. Trump’s children are helping to run his businesses as they play a part in the presidential transition.
Ms. Butler and Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, declined to comment when asked on Saturday if the meeting with the Trump family members included any discussion of Trump businesses in India or expanding that business.
The three Indian executives — Sagar Chordia, Atul Chordia, and Kalpesh Mehta — have been quoted in Indian newspapers, including The Economic Times, as saying they have discussed expanding their partnership with the Trump Organization now that Mr. Trump is president-elect.
Sagar Chordia did not respond to a request for a telephone interview. But in a series of text messages with The New York Times early Sunday, he confirmed that the meeting with Mr. Trump and members of his family had taken place, and that an article written about it in the Indian newspaper, which reported that one of his partners said they had discussed the desire to expand the deals with the Trump family, was accurate.
Washington ethics lawyers said that a meeting with Indian real estate partners, regardless of what was discussed, raised conflict of interest questions for Mr. Trump, who could be perceived as using the presidency to advance his business interests.
“There may be people for whom this looks O.K.,” said Robert L. Walker, the former chief counsel of the Senate Ethics Committee, who advises corporations and members of Congress on government ethics issues. “But for a large part of the American public, it is not going to be O.K. His role as president-elect should dictate that someone else handles business matters.”
In an account of the meeting that appeared in The Economic Times, Mr. Trump was quoted as praising the United States’ relationship with India and its prime minister, Narendra Modi.
The Economic Times reported that the meeting occurred on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization would not confirm the day of the meeting.
Internationally, many properties that bear Mr. Trump’s name are the result of marketing deals — like the one in India — in which he is paid by someone for the use of his name but does not actually own the underlying property. He has such marketing agreements in South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, the Philippines and Turkey, according to a list published by his company.
Atul Chordia and Sagar Chordia are well-known figures in real estate in Pune, a city of about three million people in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Their father, Ishwardas Chordia, was born into a family of sugar traders, but as a young man forged a close friendship with Sharad Pawar, who became an important politician in Maharashtra and now sits in the upper house of India’s Parliament.
Beginning in the 1990s, Chordia businesses built luxury hotels, corporate parks and residential projects in upscale neighborhoods in Pune.
The third executive at the meeting, Mr. Mehta, is the managing partner of a real-estate firm named Tribeca, which is also a part of the Trump projects in India, which go by names including Trump Towers Pune and Trump Towers Mumbai.
Dave Besseling, a former deputy editor at GQ India, hosted an event at Sagar Chordia’s hotel during the 2016 presidential campaign and said Mr. Chordia expressed “elation” about Mr. Trump’s candidacy and the opportunities it would bring.
The same week, Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka — an executive at the Trump Organization hotel chain — attended a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The move drew criticism from former State Department officials, given that Ms. Trump does not have security clearance and is helping run the family business enterprises.
Separately, The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the recently opened Trump International Hotel in Washington invited representatives from local embassies to the hotel after the election to encourage them to use it when leaders from their countries visited Washington.
Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a liberal government watchdog group in Washington, said the meeting at Trump Tower was inappropriate even if there had not been conversation about business. “Donald Trump’s children and son-in-law have been deeply involved in the transition and selecting who will be part of his administration,” Mr. Bookbinder said. “At the same time they are deeply involved in the business. There does not seem to be any sign of a meaningful separation of Trump government operations and his business operations.”
Ms. Butler, the spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, said the family was moving to try to formally separate Mr. Trump from his family’s business ventures.
“Mr. Trump is not going to have dealings in the day-to-day business of that organization,” she said.
Another spokeswoman for the Trump Organization added in a written statement that “the structure that is ultimately selected will comply with all applicable rules and regulations.”
Asked if such a separation had already taken place in the aftermath of the election, she said she did not know.
yo they tooled UP QUICKI see correct the record has retooled and got a new mission...Your boss is gonna fukk around and get herself locked up ...she should fade into obscurity before the new attorney general decides to open up some old files ...Barry wont be there to cover her past January
First He is still not president yetand second Nap i already told you...you view the world through a BROKE NIKKA PERSPECTIVE..
you dont have shyt and never did so you could walk away from your life RIGHT NOW....just walk out of that basement and do something else with your life and no one will notice.
But Unfortunately Some of us have Business Partners,Employees,Vendors waiting to be paid,Clients waiting on delivery, Deals pending,Charity pledges...If something changed it takes at least a month or two to wrap that shyt up,make the final deliveries,close open accounts,Hand over to someone else.
It will probably take him 60 days at least to wrap that shyt up and hand over the reins to competent people so his business doesn't collapse while he is President
Broke? Me?
and second Nap i already told you...you view the world through a BROKE NIKKA PERSPECTIVE..
you dont have shyt and never did so you could walk away from your life RIGHT NOW....just walk out of that basement and do something else with your life and no one will notice.
But Unfortunately Some of us have Business Partners,Employees,Vendors waiting to be paid,Clients waiting on delivery, Deals pending,Charity pledges...If something changed it takes at least a month or two to wrap that shyt up,make the final deliveries,close open accounts,Hand over to someone else.
It will probably take him 60 days at least to wrap that shyt up and hand over the reins to competent people so his business doesn't collapse while he is President
I'm talking about your openly corrupt president.
Or there is nothing he can do right to the left. Every day, there's some bullshyt speculation or egregious story involving "sources" that are coming so fast, most of you quickly express your sheer indignation and condemnation of Trump, while being completely ghost when the story turns out to be total bullshyt.
Still waiting for that @ThreeLetterAgency story about that FISA warrant issued to be proven true.
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
so you're saying trump has done no wrong to speak of.... my point proven....Or there is nothing he can do right to the left. Every day, there's some bullshyt speculation or egregious story involving "sources" that are coming so fast, most of you quickly express your sheer indignation and condemnation of Trump, while being completely ghost when the story turns out to be total bullshyt.
Still waiting for that @ThreeLetterAgency story about that FISA warrant issued to be proven true.
hahaha.
Is the senate no longer an office?
Face it you stupid hicks. Neither Democrats or Republicans will go after Trump for ethics because every single person in D.C. has done illegal corrupt shyt regarding mixing their personal finances with their jobs to represent the citizens. You want to enforce ethics? Start with getting rid of every single politician in DC.
Typical dishonest liberal bullshyt. Didn't say that.