ordnance11 Wrote:I did hear that news report about his "charity" buying things for him, yes.DHBirr Wrote:He doesn't accepts rules now, so what makes you think as POTUS he'll accept rules then. Better yet, what makes you sure that he won't decided to use the Treasury as his personal piggy bank? I pretty much suspect a Trump residency is going to act like a kleptocracy.robkelk Wrote:Something else that was mentioned on the CBC - if Trump wins, he and his immediate family will have to put their business holdings into a blind trust. How long would it take him to decide being President isn't worth that?To paraphrase Mr. Spock, you proceed from a not-necessarily-correct assumption. What makes you think Donald Trump accepts that as President there'd be rules he couldn't just ignore? Especially considering that every president we've had for the last I've-lost-track-but-at-a-minimum thirty-six years has danced around plenty of laws to get his own way? Trump would probably just revive Nixon's infamous argument: "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."
But, hey, if you want to elect somebody who has a history of playing fast and loose with money matters, that's your choice. And if the historical single largest producer of uranium wants to stop doing business with you because we can't trust you'll pay your bills because of your choice of leader, that's our choice. (Maybe you'll be able to buy some from Kazakhstan. You certainly don't produce enough domestically for your own use...) Not saying this will happen - maybe money will ... er... trump principles.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012