Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

[SirRumpole]

I think there would be great aversion in the business and political circles to opening Pandoras boxes like money trails into high ranking elite.

I'm sure you are right. Everyone is probably guilty in some way.

 

[basilio]

The old saying about following the money is very relevant in this case.

Getting a complete description of what Trump owns and owes to various investors could be the most important thing any enquiry into political influence and election rigging does.

I think it could apply to Australia as well although not as much as Trump.

It is a very practical question. From memory there have been a number of queries about how much Donald Trump is actually worth and how much he and his companies owe to banks, institutions.

The question of his Russian property interests is particularly critical. Every piece of evidence re Donald Trump has demonstrated his focus on Making the Deal for him and god help anyone in his way.

 

[basilio]

I'm sure you are right. Everyone is probably guilty in some way.

Which is why Governments are supposed to be very careful to ensure politicians declare their interests and political decisions are not made that benefit them directly.

That's called corruption.

 

[Tisme]

I have no problem TISME with asking for clarification when I see something I don't understand. Again could you explain what your sentence means. If I saw such a sentence from any secondary or tertiary student I taught I would make exactly the same request.

I answered it already, which speaks heaps about its truth and your comprehension.

 

[basilio]

Just waiting for the end of the Winter Games

 

[explod]

Which is why Governments are supposed to be very careful to ensure politicians declare their interests and political decisions are not made that benefit them directly.

That's called corruption.

They are all pretty well corrupt across the board, Trump's just for himself and pretty open about it. This sort of blatant openness is shunned as it does not play the underhand game. The press represent this behind the scene charade making it difficult to understand or decipher.

Interesting times.

 

[SirRumpole]

A man so brave that he has to be surrounded by security guards 24/7 would have tackled the Florida school shooter (he says).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-27/trump-says-he-would-have-run-into-florida-shooting/9487640

 

[Tisme]

A man so brave that he has to be surrounded by security guards 24/7 would have tackled the Florida school shooter (he says).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-27/trump-says-he-would-have-run-into-florida-shooting/9487640

War hero too.

Personally I think they were brave just hanging around. A bit of a reality check that not everyone is a Hollywood action figure in real life and there are active shooter protocols that are paramount before the media wanted gung-ho.

I wonder if the deputy and security guys had the same armour and weaponry as the full metal jackets who came later?

 

[luutzu]

A man so brave that he has to be surrounded by security guards 24/7 would have tackled the Florida school shooter (he says).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-27/trump-says-he-would-have-run-into-florida-shooting/9487640

 

[basilio]

Hope Hicks has pulled the plug on her role in the Trump administration as Comminications Director. Fourth person in the job.

Hope Hicks resigns as White House communications director

Hope Hicks is resigning from her role as the White House communications director.

Updated Updated 1 hour ago
By Riley Morgan
Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday.

Ms Sanders told reporters the timeline for Hicks' departure was unclear.

She said her departure was not related to her testimony to a congressional committee on Tuesday about a probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (Really ?? We'll see soon enough..)
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/hope-hicks-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director

 

[basilio]

Current list of sacked/left Trump administration staff.

Top officials and advisers who have resigned or been dismissed under Trump
Stephen Bannon - Chief strategist

Mr Trump's former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, lasted less than seven months after he was reportedly removed by the administration. However, a New York Times report claims Mr Bannon had submitted his resignation to the president before he was stood down.

Sean Spicer - Press secretary

The embattled former press secretary lasted a turbulent six months after he resigned over Mr Trump's hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, according to reports.

Michael Flynn - National security adviser

Mr Flynn lasted only three weeks in the White House after Mr Trump asked for his resignation following claims he misled the vice president.

Reince Priebus - Chief of staff

Lasting six months, Mr Trump asked for Mr Priebus' resignation to replace him with John Kelly.

Anthony Scaramucci - Communications director

Mr Scarammuci was fired from the White House after 10 days following a verbal tirade during an interview.

Hope Hicks - White House Communications director

Hope Hicks is set to resign for unknown reasons.

Source: Reuters - SBS
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/hope-hicks-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director

 

[wayneL]

Current list of sacked/left Trump administration staff.

Top officials and advisers who have resigned or been dismissed under Trump
Stephen Bannon - Chief strategist

Mr Trump's former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, lasted less than seven months after he was reportedly removed by the administration. However, a New York Times report claims Mr Bannon had submitted his resignation to the president before he was stood down.

Sean Spicer - Press secretary

The embattled former press secretary lasted a turbulent six months after he resigned over Mr Trump's hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, according to reports.

Michael Flynn - National security adviser

Mr Flynn lasted only three weeks in the White House after Mr Trump asked for his resignation following claims he misled the vice president.

Reince Priebus - Chief of staff

Lasting six months, Mr Trump asked for Mr Priebus' resignation to replace him with John Kelly.

Anthony Scaramucci - Communications director

Mr Scarammuci was fired from the White House after 10 days following a verbal tirade during an interview.

Hope Hicks - White House Communications director

Hope Hicks is set to resign for unknown reasons.

Source: Reuters - SBS
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/hope-hicks-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director

And.........?

 

[basilio]

And.........?

Donald Trump behaves like a wilful 6 year old - armed with unlimited power and no restraints. Not a good receipe for any government.

A Tufts professor ‘broke Twitter’ with this crazy-long thread about Donald Trump’s staff treating him like a toddler

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President Trump met with business owners to speak about tax reform on Tuesday.
By Nik DeCosta-Klipa Boston.com staff December 05, 2017

Like most things on Twitter, it all started as “an exercise in snark.”

Daniel Drezner was simply reading up on the latest political news one morning last April when he came across a Washington Post story about President Trump’s cable TV-watching habits. Drezner, a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, was particularly struck by a paragraph in which an unnamed Trump adviser said there was “no managing” the president during his late-evening TV sessions, so he decided to screenshot the excerpt with a line of commentary:

“I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler,” he wrote, garnering thousands of retweets and likes.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/po...ike-toddler/hN9w3AlF5875Pkmu7VWvAI/story.html

If you want to see how White House staff attempted to manage this 6 year Prince check out the thread. It's priceless.
Daniel W. Drezner‏Verified account @dandrezner 2h2 hours ago
Daniel W. Drezner Retweeted Daniel W. Drezner
This is the 249th tweet in the #ToddlerinChief thread.

 

[basilio]

Ever considered why The President of the US and his staff don't/shouldn't have other business interests when they are acting on behalf of the nation?

Turns out that Daniel Kusher, Donald Trumps son-in-law and senior advisor to the President has received hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from companies that have visted him in the White House.
Kushner’s Business Got
Loans From Companies
After White House Meetings
Apollo, the private equity firm, and
Citigroup made large loans last year to
the family real estate business of Jared
Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser.

By JESSE DRUCKER, KATE KELLY and BEN PROTESSFEB. 28, 2018

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Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.

Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, was advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. During that period, he met on multiple occasions with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said three people familiar with the meetings. Among other things, the two men discussed a possible White House job for Mr. Harris.

The job never materialized, but in November, Apollo lent $184 million to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper.

Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.

It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received last year. An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

That loan was made in the spring of 2017, shortly after Mr. Kushner met in the White House with Citigroup’s chief executive, Michael L. Corbat, according to people briefed on the meeting. The two men talked about financial and trade policy and did not discuss Mr. Kushner’s family business, one person said.

There is little precedent for a top White House official meeting with executives of companies as they contemplate sizable loans to his business, say government ethics experts.

“This is exactly why senior government officials, for as long back as I have any experience, don’t maintain any active outside business interests,” said Don Fox, the former acting director of the Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration and, before that, a lawyer for the Air Force and Navy during Republican and Democratic administrations. “The appearance of conflicts of interest is simply too great.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/jared-kushner-apollo-citigroup-loans.html?smid=tw-share

 

[wayneL]

What is amusing is all this without consideration of your own behaviours.

You're playing to the echo chamber Komrade.

 

[moXJO]

Trump is President.
No one cares about the latest lefty cryfest. You would think the dems would have learnt during the Dillary campaign.

 

[basilio]

MoKjo, Wayne are you saying that regardless of competency, regardless of ethics, regardless of nepotism and regardless of obvious conflicts of interest Donald Trump is untouchable as President ?

Taking it to the obvious conclusion Donald Trump could walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone and nothing would happen. Fair comment ?

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html

 

[SirRumpole]

Trump is President.
No one cares about the latest lefty cryfest. You would think the dems would have learnt during the Dillary campaign.

I think you are wrong there. I don't think a lot of Americans like the disrespect that the US is seen by the rest of the world. They are used to everyone else liking them.

 

[SirRumpole]

Trump showing some b@lls over gun control ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-...d-pushes-for-tougher-gun-control-laws/9496206

 

[Tisme]

<insert here> behaves like a wilful 6 year old - armed with unlimited power and no restraints

Can you see what I see?