Forbes uncovers Trump's likely Yuuugest conflict of interest

[DrLove]

Of course, since Mango Mussolini handed over the businesses to Don "Guido" Trump Junior, Orange Loyalists will see absolutely nothing wrong with this -- NADA

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The largest American office of China's largest bank sits on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, six levels below the desk where Donald Trump built an empire and wrested a presidency. It's hard to get a glimpse inside. There do not appear to be any public photos of the office, the bank doesn't welcome visitors, and a man guards the elevators downstairs--one of the perks of forking over an estimated $2 million a year for the space.

Trump Tower officially lists the tenant as the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, but make no mistake who's paying the rent: the Chinese government, which owns a majority of the company. And while the landlord is technically the Trump Organization, make no mistake who's cashing those millions: the president of the United States, who has placed day-to-day management with his sons but retains 100% ownership. This lease expires in October 2019, according to a debt prospectus obtained by Forbes. So if you assume that the Trumps want to keep this lucrative tenant, then Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. could well be negotiating right now over how many millions the Chinese government will pay the sitting president. Unless he has already taken care of it: In September 2015 then-candidate Trump boasted to Forbes that he had "just renewed" the lease, around the time he was gearing up his campaign.

The real money in the Trump empire comes from commercial tenants like the Chinese bank. Forbes estimates these tenants pay a collective $175 million a year or so to the president. And they do so anonymously. Federal laws, drafted without envisioning a real estate billionaire as president, require Trump to publicly disclose the shell companies he owns--but not the hundreds of businesses pouring money into them or even the extent of the money involved.​

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Trump's Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight

 

[Sunni Man]

............

 

[DrLove]

............

Told ya

 

[SassyIrishLass]

That's a reach

 

[Sunni Man]

So now it's going from Russia, Russia, Russia, .... to China, China, China?? ....

 

[Indeependent]

Of course, since Mango Mussolini handed over the businesses to Don "Guido" Trump Junior, Orange Loyalists will see absolutely nothing wrong with this -- NADA

<snips>

The largest American office of China's largest bank sits on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, six levels below the desk where Donald Trump built an empire and wrested a presidency. It's hard to get a glimpse inside. There do not appear to be any public photos of the office, the bank doesn't welcome visitors, and a man guards the elevators downstairs--one of the perks of forking over an estimated $2 million a year for the space.

Trump Tower officially lists the tenant as the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, but make no mistake who's paying the rent: the Chinese government, which owns a majority of the company. And while the landlord is technically the Trump Organization, make no mistake who's cashing those millions: the president of the United States, who has placed day-to-day management with his sons but retains 100% ownership. This lease expires in October 2019, according to a debt prospectus obtained by Forbes. So if you assume that the Trumps want to keep this lucrative tenant, then Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. could well be negotiating right now over how many millions the Chinese government will pay the sitting president. Unless he has already taken care of it: In September 2015 then-candidate Trump boasted to Forbes that he had "just renewed" the lease, around the time he was gearing up his campaign.

The real money in the Trump empire comes from commercial tenants like the Chinese bank. Forbes estimates these tenants pay a collective $175 million a year or so to the president. And they do so anonymously. Federal laws, drafted without envisioning a real estate billionaire as president, require Trump to publicly disclose the shell companies he owns--but not the hundreds of businesses pouring money into them or even the extent of the money involved.​

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Trump's Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight

Trump ran on the fact that China loves renting space in his beautiful buildings.
Feeling stupid yet?

 

[DrLove]

That's a reach

Praytell - what exactly is a reach Sassy?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Of course, since Mango Mussolini handed over the businesses to Don "Guido" Trump Junior, Orange Loyalists will see absolutely nothing wrong with this -- NADA

<snips>

The largest American office of China's largest bank sits on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, six levels below the desk where Donald Trump built an empire and wrested a presidency. It's hard to get a glimpse inside. There do not appear to be any public photos of the office, the bank doesn't welcome visitors, and a man guards the elevators downstairs--one of the perks of forking over an estimated $2 million a year for the space.

Trump Tower officially lists the tenant as the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, but make no mistake who's paying the rent: the Chinese government, which owns a majority of the company. And while the landlord is technically the Trump Organization, make no mistake who's cashing those millions: the president of the United States, who has placed day-to-day management with his sons but retains 100% ownership. This lease expires in October 2019, according to a debt prospectus obtained by Forbes. So if you assume that the Trumps want to keep this lucrative tenant, then Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. could well be negotiating right now over how many millions the Chinese government will pay the sitting president. Unless he has already taken care of it: In September 2015 then-candidate Trump boasted to Forbes that he had "just renewed" the lease, around the time he was gearing up his campaign.

The real money in the Trump empire comes from commercial tenants like the Chinese bank. Forbes estimates these tenants pay a collective $175 million a year or so to the president. And they do so anonymously. Federal laws, drafted without envisioning a real estate billionaire as president, require Trump to publicly disclose the shell companies he owns--but not the hundreds of businesses pouring money into them or even the extent of the money involved.​

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Trump's Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight

But what happened to Russian Collusion?

 

[DrLove]

Conspiracy Theories Will? Awesome man, I trust you'll now move all the posts from Gateway Pundit and Infowars currently residing in Current Events and Politics here as well.

After all, Steve Forbes' publication is liberal pablum loaded with conspiracy theories.

Derp -

 

[SassyIrishLass]

That's a reach

Praytell - what exactly is a reach Sassy?

LOL Are you switching gears from Russia Russia Russia to China China China?

You may as well....both won't go anywhere

 

[equalizer_0]

Trump's ties to Russia of course include China.

'BRICS' is a Yuuuge big money investment thesis, Namely:

• Brazil
• Russia
• India
• China
• South Africa

There is, of course, no rule of law in those countries to protect the "little people" in these investments, and those countries have discovered how to satisfy rich, powerful plutocrats like Trump while riding roughshod over "little people."

 

[Indeependent]

Trump's ties to Russia of course include China.

'BRICS' is a Yuuuge big money investment thesis, Namely:

• Brazil
• Russia
• India
• China
• South Africa

There is, of course, no rule of law in those countries to protect the "little people" in these investments, and those countries have discovered how to satisfy rich, powerful plutocrats like Trump while riding roughshod over "little people."

The US has Rule of Law to protect “Little” People?
Let us in on the secret.

 

[equalizer_0]

The US has Rule of Law to protect “Little” People?
Let us in on the secret.

I never said that of the US. The SEC is a joke and has never had much authority or enforcement power. The divestment to BRICS is a further entrenchment of US and other Western "Big Money" against any possibility of rule of law.

 

[Indeependent]

The US has Rule of Law to protect “Little” People?
Let us in on the secret.

I never said that of the US. The SEC is a joke and has never had much authority or enforcement power. The divestment to BRICS is a further entrenchment of US and other Western "Big Money" against any possibility of rule of law.

BRICS was around before Trump tossed his hat in the ring.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Wait. What happened to Deutsche Bank? I thought you had him with that

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's a reach

Praytell - what exactly is a reach Sassy?

LOL Are you switching gears from Russia Russia Russia to China China China?

You may as well....both won't go anywhere

You see how close China and Russia are on a map?

 

[Moonglow]

Trump's ties to Russia of course include China.

'BRICS' is a Yuuuge big money investment thesis, Namely:

• Brazil
• Russia
• India
• China
• South Africa

There is, of course, no rule of law in those countries to protect the "little people" in these investments, and those countries have discovered how to satisfy rich, powerful plutocrats like Trump while riding roughshod over "little people."

The US has Rule of Law to protect “Little” People?
Let us in on the secret.

That is a fool's errand believing that the little guy is somehow protected....

 

[emilynghiem]

Of course, since Mango Mussolini handed over the businesses to Don "Guido" Trump Junior, Orange Loyalists will see absolutely nothing wrong with this -- NADA

<snips>

The largest American office of China's largest bank sits on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, six levels below the desk where Donald Trump built an empire and wrested a presidency. It's hard to get a glimpse inside. There do not appear to be any public photos of the office, the bank doesn't welcome visitors, and a man guards the elevators downstairs--one of the perks of forking over an estimated $2 million a year for the space.

Trump Tower officially lists the tenant as the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, but make no mistake who's paying the rent: the Chinese government, which owns a majority of the company. And while the landlord is technically the Trump Organization, make no mistake who's cashing those millions: the president of the United States, who has placed day-to-day management with his sons but retains 100% ownership. This lease expires in October 2019, according to a debt prospectus obtained by Forbes. So if you assume that the Trumps want to keep this lucrative tenant, then Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. could well be negotiating right now over how many millions the Chinese government will pay the sitting president. Unless he has already taken care of it: In September 2015 then-candidate Trump boasted to Forbes that he had "just renewed" the lease, around the time he was gearing up his campaign.

The real money in the Trump empire comes from commercial tenants like the Chinese bank. Forbes estimates these tenants pay a collective $175 million a year or so to the president. And they do so anonymously. Federal laws, drafted without envisioning a real estate billionaire as president, require Trump to publicly disclose the shell companies he owns--but not the hundreds of businesses pouring money into them or even the extent of the money involved.​

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Trump's Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight

Dear DrLove
What I'd like to see is the public policing both Trump and Clinton equally for "conflicts of interest"

I don't mind people questioning these foreign rentals and "emolument" deals
if the same standards were enforced for the Clintons and donations/speaking fees
that were arguably tied to deals with foreign interests and investments as well.

What bothers me is trying to substitute one case "in place of" going after another,
then both cancelling out instead of investigating and resolving both!

Two wrongs don't make either of them right.
But America and the media has gotten into this habit of saying basically:
"Well, we didn't go after X when XYZ happened, so why should we go after A over ABC???"

This is backwards!

We should still go after both XYZ on the left and ABC on the right,
and hold all cases to public account.

Instead of just judging and punishing parties politically for points,
where is the correction to these conflicts?

What the normal policy is to avoid conflicts of interest is to avoid any APPEARANCE of them.

For example, while Trump is in office, why not let a nonprofit group take over part of the
businesses and let the profits from any "conflicting sources"
go toward charity causes that the public agrees are nonpartisan.

So for Russian and Chinese money going to Trump or Clinton,
why not direct those funds to go toward help for Trafficking or Sweatshop victims,
since both Russian, Chinese and other Asian workers are suffering from
global trafficking and slavery. Why not let some of the profits pay for
the extra costs of Security detail for the First Family when they travel for leisure.

There could be creative ways to work this out, where the money
goes to costs or causes that the public agrees is consistent and not conflicting with
political or personal interests.

See Code of Ethics for Govt Service www.ethics-commission.net
Any conflicts in duty to the public interest first, above personal gain,
should be resolved.

And NOT politicized where parties take turns excusing one for the other.
Neither side gets policed that way!

 

[equalizer_0]

BRICS was around before Trump tossed his hat in the ring.

Sure. Trump's money was made long before his run for office. But the idea of 'BRICS' as an investment thesis for big, no-questions-asked, western money is relatively recent.

 

[Indeependent]

BRICS was around before Trump tossed his hat in the ring.

Sure. Trump's money was made long before his run for office. But the idea of 'BRICS' as an investment thesis for big, no-questions-asked, western money is relatively recent.

I’m sure lots of Americans have their hat in that ring.