Examples
There’s a petition urging Congressional investigation of Trump’s massive conflicts of interest. It includes a useful list:
Here are the examples of potential corruption that have emerged just since Nov. 8:7,8,9
- Trump’s children have a role in the presidential transition, despite claims that they will take over the Trump business from their father.
- Ivanka Trump attended a meeting with the Japanese prime minister and reportedly joined a phone call between her father and the president of Argentina.
- A long-stalled Trump project in Argentina mysteriously got the green light to move forward days after that phone call.
- Trump reportedly used his meeting with British politicians to push them to block offshore wind farms that he believes will sully the view from his Scotland golf courses.
- Indian real estate developers bragged about meeting with Trump post-election and expanding their work with him now that he has the power of the presidency.
- Trump paid $25 million to settle charges that he defrauded students of Trump University.
- News broke that immediately before the election Trump launched eight mysterious companies to build luxury real estate projects in Saudi Arabia.
- Foreign diplomats told The Washington Post that they would deliberately book rooms at Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel in order to curry favor with the president
- Government ethics experts who served under Republican and Democratic presidents have agreed that Trump’s potential conflicts of interest might be unconstitutional
- The U.S. Secret Service might pay millions of dollars to rent two floors in Trump Tower to protect him and his family, with Trump pocketing the proceeds.
- Trump praised his Turkish business partner, who had butted heads with Turkey’s government, in a phone call with autocratic Turkish President Erdogan.
I didn’t know the Argentina project had been given the green light. I didn’t know about the eight companies to build luxury projects in Saudi Arabia.
Time to sharpen the Google and begin work.
This one amazes me. Millions of dollars paid directly to Trump from the taxpayer, all because his vanity and sloth prevents him from moving from a luxurious mansion to an equally luxurious (but less garish) site.
If he insists the secret service have to rent the space from him, the US Treasury department should just decline to use the space and he will have to live with a diminished level of protection as a result of his choices.
I wonder how much the story about the diplomats is, well, just being diplomatic.
Being phrased the way it is, the diplomats put themselves in a bad light, sounding like utter weasels. However, I’d find the story more believable if it were phrased, “Foreign diplomats told The Washington Post that they would deliberately book rooms at Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel in order to avoid the possibility of accidentally crossing the notoriously thin-skinned, unpredictable, and unusually vindictive president”.
However, if that were the story they’d told the WaPo, they’d be even more likely to incur his wrath.
All this, and not even sworn in…hell, the electoral college hasn’t even voted, and his corruption already rivals…no, tops…that of the Nixon administration.