pacino wrote:Sean Spicer, the incoming WH Press Secretary, threatened to throw CNN's Jim Acosta out of the press conference.

CalvinBall wrote:imagine if barack obama lashed out like trump does when someone writes something bad about him.

JUburton wrote:lovett told me cnn's post coverage was good and the 3rd person i hear after turning it on is rick santorum. god dammit.

Bucky wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:imagine if barack obama lashed out like trump does when someone writes something bad about him.

pacino wrote:

JUburton wrote:lovett told me cnn's post coverage was good and the 3rd person i hear after turning it on is rick santorum. god dammit.

they had former congressperson Jack Kingston on last night comparing President Obama to Justin Bieber

Bucky wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:imagine if barack obama lashed out like trump does when someone writes something bad about him.

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Trump: “The only ones that care about tax returns are reporters... I won.”

For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter.

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Woody wrote:Selling his company would EXACERBATE conflicts of interest. I'm dying

Who can Trump sell to, anyone? If a Russian company offered $20B for Trump Corporation, how about that?

a trustee decides all that, no?

Trump gets the money when sold. If someone overpays, then that's a possible bribe. While I enjoy a lot of the glib comments in this thread, it's not possible to eliminate the possibility of conflicts of interest given the current state of his business.

Difficult. Not impossible by any means.

I'm not an expert, but wouldn't a true blind trust be the most ethical course of action?

Yeah, it's the far easier way of resolving some of his conflicts. But even then, how do you make a prominent hotel/casino chain into a truly "blind" holding? You'd have to sell those properties.

Correct. But if he really wanted to eliminate his conflicts of interest he could sell the Trump Organization and put the proceeds into a blind trust. And the notion that he couldn't sell the Trump Organization for a fair price and without continuing conflicts is totally bogus. Not surprisingly he wants to have his cake and eat it, too.

As Trump looked for deals in Russia, Russian consumers became a key market for his real estate projects in the United States and elsewhere.

Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auction less than four years earlier for $41.4 million, records show.

In 2013, Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project, Aras Agalarov, an Azeri-born real estate developer who is sometimes called the “Trump of Russia” for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects.

The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state-funded construction projects, a sign of their closeness to the Putin government. Shortly after the pageant, Putin awarded the elder Agalarov the “Order of Honor of the Russian Federation,” a prestigious designation.