Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Infinite Conflicts of Interest for Trump

Here is the paradox. There are no laws regarding how a president should deal with his holdings and investments, only a law which forbids a president from receiving gifts from foreign nations and foreign companies.

But, even if it is only gifts with 500 separate holdings Trump owns or has an interest in around the world, each one there are hundreds to thousands of possible conflicts of interests as president.

So, if you multiply the thousands of possible conflicts of interests in one holding, then if you take all 500 you might have up to 1 million logical conflicts of interest in all holdings regarding gifts from foreign nations or foreign companies.

IN other words, if he is president (even with his children running the businesses) he is liable to make billions or trillions of dollars just by being president in ways (gifts) that will be against the law.

So, going into this the likelihood of Trump being impeached the first month of his presidency from receiving gifts from foreign countries grows more likely every day now. Because literally thousands of things regarding his businesses could be considered "Gifts" from foreign countries. Even a pen a country gave to Trump that he kept and used could be a beginning ground for impeachment in this ridiculous scenario.

So, unless Trump becomes a dictator no longer subject to the constitution or law he won't be long in office the way things presently stand.

So, Unless Trump Sells every holding he presently has and puts the money from this sale into a Blind Trust (not controlled by his children) he will corrupt every promise he has made as a candidate.

So, here it is: "unless he sells everything he owns and puts the cash into a blind trust (not managed by his children)  he has corrupted the presidency with conflicts of interest like no president ever has in U.S. history".


However, if he sells these properties he also loses all the tax breaks of various kinds from running businesses and this could cost him millions or even billions of dollars in new taxes.

And this is the rub.

So, likely Trump will not sell and thereby and corrupt the presidency like no other president ever dared to.

And doing this he will forever Taint the Presidency with corruption like no other from Conflicts of Interest without limit worldwide.

So, in order to give up conflicts of interest he may have to lose millions and billions of dollars or more in investments. However, he should have thought about all this BEFORE running for president.

This was really poor planning on his part.

(Unless his plan was ALWAYS to become a Dictator who is above the law anyway).

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