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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy biggest worry about Trump's corruption and conflicts of interests
What happens if someone or some entity or even some government that's expecting a big payment or pay off or favor does not get it. The envelope is light. What happens then?
Screwing over contractors, NJ government officials, and banks is one thing. Screwing over foreign interests as president is something else entirely.
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My biggest worry about Trump's corruption and conflicts of interests (Original Post)
Yavin4
Nov 2016
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or even worse. what happens when he sells out the US to his foreign financial backers
JI7
Nov 2016
#1
Or worse yet, those who hacked the election blackmail him. Russia owns him.
McCamy Taylor
Nov 2016
#2
JI7
(89,249 posts)1. or even worse. what happens when he sells out the US to his foreign financial backers
he has no loyalty to the US.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)2. Or worse yet, those who hacked the election blackmail him. Russia owns him.
Do you want Russia to own us?
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)3. Very dangerous! Trump only has allegiance to himself and money! n/t
moondust
(19,981 posts)4. Who protects all his properties?
And who pays for it?
Are Trump towers and hotels across globe now terror risks?
bhikkhu
(10,716 posts)5. let us hope that the worst that happens is he gets richer
Annoying, but I could live with that if we can just move on harmlessly, to better things, whole, but a little poorer and wiser, 4 years from now.