- Dec 25, 2009
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Hey liberals, should we presume that you would say it's fine that Ivanka makes a $500K speech in Moscow right around the time that Trump agrees to sell uranium to Moscow, not to mention a hefty donation to Trump's personal foundation? How about it?
Depends on the details. Ivanka has no authority over uranium reserves to start with, but assuming that she did; If the departments of Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, Energy and Homeland Security, and two White House agencies (Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and Office of Science and Technology Policy). each has equal authority with her in the decision, and the uranium was guaranteed to never leave the US, I don't think I would see it as a problem, especially since she, or the heads of each of the other agencies didn't do anything but make recommendations. None of them had authority to approve or deny the sale. As far as being paid for a speech, I don't see a problem if the person paying for the speech was completely separated from the company buying the uranium about 5 years before anything was even mentioned about the deal.
Ok, so you would say "no problem" and you wouldn't criticize Trump over the matter because you never engage in rhetorical criticism of Trump, right?