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By Sarah Posner
August 11 at 1:52 PM
... Given that in the past 24 hours Trump has threatened nuclear war with North Korea, thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Moscow and publicly attacked his partys leader in the Senate, its easy to lose sight of another ongoing scandal: How Trump continues to line his familys pockets through the presidency ...
After spending just one month in the hotels public spaces, Post reporters witnessed, among other things, luminaries of Trumps world, including current White House staffers and former New York mayor and Trump ally Rudolph Giuliani, "posing for selfies at the bar the night Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey," and former Trump campaign manager-turned-lobbyist Corey Lewandowski sitting in "a black leather chair marked 'Reserved.'" In July, Republican fundraisers used the space to raise $10 million for Trumps reelection campaign ...
... his "working" vacation has also been a daily advertisement for his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort, another showpiece in his familys vast holdings around the world. When Trump is on television, golfing or eating or roaming around Bedminster, its free advertising not only for the resort, but also for the Trump brand as a whole ...
... : Trump is able to get away with this sort of self-dealing in part because hes making a mess on so many other fronts. Because of the sheer chaos of Trumps presidency Trumps erratic behavior, the West Wing mayhem, the cloud of the Russia investigation this alarming new reality has gone overshadowed, and he has managed to move the ethical goalposts of the Oval Office. The public has only so much bandwidth to absorb the scale and scope of this administrations unraveling of ethical norms ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/11/amid-all-the-craziness-dont-forget-trump-is-using-the-presidency-to-enrich-his-family/?utm_term=.0a50f72c3b54
Angry Dragon
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(81,570 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)wouldn't have been allowed to be inaugurated unless they got their financial assets separated under rules of ethics and Emoluments Clause. The hypocrisy of the GOP knows no bounds.