Emoluments clause anyone? This is supposed to be illegal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...8-million-foreign-payments-during-presidency/ During Donald Trump’s presidency, his businesses received at least $7.8 million in payments from the foreign governments and officials of 20 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, according to a report released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. When Republicans took control of the House in 2023, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) ended the congressional investigation into Trump’s alleged violations of the emoluments clause. He also declined to enforce a court-ordered agreement that Mazars USA, Trump’s former accounting firm, produce evidence related to Trump’s financial dealings.
1. Party over country. 2. Rules for thee, not for me. The only two rules of American democracy that seem to matter anymore.
Keep in mind this is “Democrats say Trump received …” along the lines of “republicans say Biden received …”’
Just read that on CNN and thought surely this will move the needle for the MAGA crowd. I'm kidding, as are the MAGA folks themselves. I chalk their blind support of Trump up to being unable to admit they've been wrong about him. In their defense, it's impossible for anyone who doesn't have an open mind to admit error.
Republicans, being in the majority, declined to further investigate, issue subpoenas, enforce subpoenas, or issue the report. So, for the info to come to light, it had to happen this way.
Gotta love James Comer. He refuses to investigate benefits received from foreign countries by a former president during his tenure in office yet he's obsessed with investigating possible payments received by the son of the current president/former vice president during a period in which he (the current president) didn't hold any public office and in which his party didn't hold the presidency or have a majority in either House of Congress.
You must be thinking of Jimmy Carter who put his peanut business into a blind trust when he became president. Trump supposedly turned over control of the family business to his sons but it was in no way put in a blind trust. Trump's claim that he played no role in the operation of the Trump Organization after he took his office is as credible as the representation that enrollment in Trump University would least to a successful career in real estate investing.
Obsessed with the son of the current POTUS who himself never had a role in government and at a time when the current POTUS was completely out of government and had zero influence over an administration of the opposite political party which also controlled both Houses of Congress at the time. By the way the ex-POTUS who could very well end up in office again is more relevant than the sleazy son of the current POTUS.
Trump asks public for blind trust - POLITICO Donald Trump promises that he and his adults sons won’t talk business or policy while he runs the country and they run his company, but the country will have to take his word on it. Trump says his company is hiring an ethics officer to review any new deals for conflicts of interest, but the ethics officer will report to business executives, not the public. Trump says he’ll forfeit profits from foreign government officials who stay in his hotels, but he didn’t say how he’ll calculate profit or keep track of all such payments. There is a common thread in the ethics plan Trump outlined Wednesday: His pledge to separate his private interests from public policy depends almost entirely on him and his team following their own rules, with almost a total absence of public disclosure, outside oversight or independent verification. New Evidence That Trump's 'Blind Trust' Is A Sham (commoncause.org) Remember President Trump’s promise to put his far-flung business empire in a blind trust, the better to ensure that his personal financial interests could never conflict with his obligation to serve the public interest? Turns out that was fake news. Bigly. ProPublica and other news outlets are reporting today that a sentence buried deep in revisions of the president’s trust agreement makes it clear that Trump can tap his fortune at will and without disclosing it publicly.
US ethics chief slams Trump ‘halfway blind’ trust as failing to meet acceptable standard (cnbc.com) The transition plan announced by President-elect Donald Trump falls short of the standards met by every President since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, according to the Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE). Walter M. Shaub Jr. said that he wished that he did not have to address the public with his concerns but that there had been a lot of recent commentary surrounding ethics so he hoped by speaking up on Wednesday afternoon, Trump may see fit to reconsider some of his plans. “I need to talk about ethics today because the plan the President-elect has announced doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every President in the past four decades has met,” Shaub stated. “My hope is that, if the Office of Government Ethics can provide some constructive feedback on his plan, he may choose to make adjustments that will resolve his conflicts of interest,” he continued.
