(04-07-2019 10:31 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 09:39 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 09:31 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 09:12 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 06:51 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  I skipped over that detail because the list of politicians who became uber-wealthy while "serving" their constituents is endless. It makes no sense to me why this should be the case and it is a black mark on our political system. Singling out Obama in this regard is pointless.

So why all the anguish over transactions that are not material to Trump's financial condition? If the prime minister of Slobovia spent two nights in a Trump hotel, that's not even rounding error.
I really think it is far more, "Orange man bad, so let's throw up as many roadblocks as we can," than any serious oversight activity.

But those two days all add up, and foreign nationals have admitted to staying there to curry favor.
Heck, even T-Mobile did it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019...istration/
The Trump hotel is in a good location, but so are the W, JW Marriott, St. Regis, and on, and on. In fact, those are in even better locations.
So are you just comfortable with these types of conflicts of interest?

Yes, because I don't see normal transactions in the ordinary course of business as conflicts of interest.

How do you differentiate normal from influence peddling? Obviously someone could take advantage of someone's business as a way to buy influence, right?

Do you think Trump's tax return will specifically point out the two nights the Minister of Streetcars from Slobovia spent in a Trump hotel?

The funny thing is that you are counting the gd 400 bucks here and the 2k bucks there as a supposed defense to the opening the tax returns. Btw, what is, say, 10k divided 3.1 billion?

And the funny thing is that you are pulling out these supposed terrible practices as a reason for opening up the tax returns. Turning back to the original question, given your spirited examples of 'what not to do', on what line of Trumps tax return do you think you will find that item detailing the two nights the Minister of Streetcars stayed at the Trump hotel? Or even three gd months?

But..... by god! those tax returns MUST BE OPENED!

This is like watching a bunch of first year attorneys cranking out the 375 question interrogatories in a litigation and none of the interrogatories even touch on the core of the matter......

The funny thing is Trump is ratcheting up the defense on this simply to watch the media and Maddow/Cuomo watchers to spin their wheels like a bunch of teenagers on acid doing a Chinese fire drill.

Rent free....