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Showing Original Post only (View all)Newsweek: HOW THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S FOREIGN BUSINESS TIES COULD UPEND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY [View all]
Last edited Wed Sep 14, 2016, 10:37 AM - Edit history (2)
Kurt Eichenwald's article is up!
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html
If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States?
Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump familys bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched byor will further enrichTrump and his family if he wins the presidency.
A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its international partners, reveals an enterprise with deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians and even criminals, although there is no evidence the Trump Organization has engaged in any illegal activities. It also reveals a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled. If Trump moves into the White House and his family continues to receive any benefit from the company, during or even after his presidency, almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires.
UPDATE: CNN did a segment on Eichenwald's article:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/politics/kurt-eichenwald-donald-trump-business/
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Newsweek: HOW THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S FOREIGN BUSINESS TIES COULD UPEND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY [View all]
sarae
Sep 2016
OP
Yeah, it's pretty dry reading, which tends to really dampen the "bombshell" effect.
sarae
Sep 2016
#3
I have an idea-- let's not just elect this fucking psychopath in the first place
Fast Walker 52
Sep 2016
#10
Would a President Trump even move into the White House? There's a new Trump hotel in D.C.
tanyev
Sep 2016
#14
Media seems to think Trump's non-release of medical records much more important
rurallib
Sep 2016
#26