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Augiedog

(2,545 posts)
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 09:52 PM Sep 2016

I keep reading and hearing the talking heads barfing about Hillary Clinton needing to dissolve

her relationship with the Clinton Foundation charity and its work. Which by the way has saved uncounted lives and improved the prospects of so many more. But I hear not a peep about tRump needing to answer for his business interests and if he is going to disconnect himself from those, whatever they are. I'm not sure how you disengage from a business based on going bankrupt but that seems to be his business model so who am I to judge. At any rate, why no discussion on tRump and the conflict of interest present if he is, well I can't say it but you know what I mean.

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I keep reading and hearing the talking heads barfing about Hillary Clinton needing to dissolve (Original Post) Augiedog Sep 2016 OP
Our Media has determined Wellstone ruled Sep 2016 #1
there's simply no way trump's business can ethically continue if he's president unblock Sep 2016 #2
If the MSM's coverage was honest, Trump would not stand a chance, ronnie624 Sep 2016 #3
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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Our Media has determined
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 09:58 PM
Sep 2016

that their messages would be,all in with their personal friend Trump and when talking or writing about Hillary,use negative descriptive adjectives when every possible. Remember,they created the Con Job,and most if not all the Media Executives are ego driven males,and appears they are not coming to gripes with a smarter more capably person than Hillary.

unblock

(52,208 posts)
2. there's simply no way trump's business can ethically continue if he's president
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 10:04 PM
Sep 2016

his entire business is about profiting off branding and imaging.

turning the brand and image of the president of the united states into a for-profit business is morally reprehensible.

nor is it good enough to cut himself out and hand everything over to his kids. aside from the fact that he's obviously got a vested interest in the financial well-being of his immediate family, it's still all based on his own image.

it's not as if he was in the business of manufacturing something that would be reasonable to continue, in someone else's hands.

and, of course, the potential for abuse (e.g., pay-for-play) exists.

he's already engaged in self-dealing, jacking up the rent the campaign pays him for office space.


but no, hillary deleted an email, let's talk about that, instead...

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)
3. If the MSM's coverage was honest, Trump would not stand a chance,
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 10:30 PM
Sep 2016

but that wouldn't attract as many ad viewers, so it pushes a blatant false equivalence, in the interest of generating advertising revenue. The owners chase profit at the expense of our country's well being.

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