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Donald Trump to leave business ‘in total’ to concentrate on running the US

 

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WASHINGTON: -- US President-Elect Donald Trump has announced he will hold a press conference with his family on December 15 to discuss leaving his business “in total” to focus on what he labelled “the far more important task” of running the country.

 

Four for foreign policy?

 

Now the main question for many people centres around the coveted Secretary of State position. The future of US foreign policy has been narrowed down to a list of four potential candidates, according to a transition team spokesperson.

 

Mitt Romney is tipped to be in the running for the job. Formerly a critic of Trump, he sat down for dinner with the president-elect for a second time on Tuesday night (November 29).

 

Romney labelled Trump a ‘phony’ and a ‘fraud’ during the 2016 election campaign. He also ran for the presidency on the Republican ticket in 2012, but lost out to current President Barack Obama.

 

Foreign policy has been a thorn in the side of Trump’s transition team. Doubts have been raised about bringing in the former Massachusetts governor. Some are pushing for long-time Trump supporter and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to be offered the position.

 

But, whatever the past, Romney was all smiles when he emerged from dinner with the president-elect at his golf club in New Jersey.

“I had a wonderful evening with President-Elect Donald Trump,” he said. “We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world and these discussions I’ve had with him have been enlightening and interesting and engaging. I’ve enjoyed them very, very much.”

 

Who else?

 

Former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday he had accepted the nomination to become the next Treasury Secretary.

 

The Wall Street veteran was the national finance chairman for Trump’s election campaign.

 

Mnuchin, like the president-elect, has no direct government experience.

 

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said he had agreed to accept the role of Secretary of Commerce.

 

Trump’s move to fill up his domestic policy team saw the appointment on Tuesday (November 29) of Elaine Chao as Transportation Secretary and Tom Price as the Minister of Health and Human Services.

 

 
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First thing to concentrate on would be to get rid of all the professional parasites who have been on welfare for literally generations and have no intention of working for a living ! Many people may need assistance after becoming unemployed, but if someone has not found a Job in 6 months they aren,t looking very hard. The system that makes it more profitable to collect free money than work has to be straightened out, and would save billions for more useful projects.

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11 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

First thing to concentrate on would be to get rid of all the professional parasites who have been on welfare for literally generations and have no intention of working for a living ! Many people may need assistance after becoming unemployed, but if someone has not found a Job in 6 months they aren,t looking very hard. The system that makes it more profitable to collect free money than work has to be straightened out, and would save billions for more useful projects.

  Are we talking about the Goldman Sachs crowd being looked at for Trump admin jobs? Seems perfect for "those parasites": no experience necessary!

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

Donald Trump to leave business ‘in total’ to concentrate on running the US

 

Weird, the headline doesn't match the content. There is nothing to backup the headline. Will he put the business in a blind trust? Will his children run them? Will he sell them all off?

 

How will he handle the DC Hotel? As soon as he becomes Prez, he violates the terms of the lease.

House Dems: Trump’s DC hotel a clear conflict of interest

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/308193-house-dems-trumps-dc-hotel-clear-conflict-of-interest

 

 

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Ridiculous. There can be no expectation he will not try to enrich himself if he only passes control of the business to his children who he is also using as political advisers. It would be hard for almost anyone, much less a narcissistic imbecile like Trump to not think of themselves when given so much power. This is why presidents have turned to blind trusts.

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Paraphrasing a Tweet from Gin & Tacos:
3:49 AM: WSJ uploads a story about Trump children's financial conflicts of interest
3:55 AM: trump makes non-sequitur tweet about how flag burning should be jailable offense.

 

Hmmm...

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2 hours ago, Emster23 said:

  Are we talking about the Goldman Sachs crowd being looked at for Trump admin jobs? Seems perfect for "those parasites": no experience necessary!

 

 

www.aljazeera.com/programmes/.../06/goldman-sachs-bank-rules-<...
Goldman SachsThe bank that rules the world. An i

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So how is the con-man POTUS elect going to remove himself from the 150 companies that he owes money to? I wonder how easy it is to manipulate the POTUS when he owes you money, huh?

 

Trump's debt spread across 150 companies, Wall Street Journal says

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/05/news/wall-street-journal-trump-business/index.html

 

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4 minutes ago, Silurian said:

So how is the con-man POTUS elect going to remove himself from the 150 companies that he owes money to? I wonder how easy it is to manipulate the POTUS when he owes you money, huh?

 

Trump's debt spread across 150 companies, Wall Street Journal says

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/05/news/wall-street-journal-trump-business/index.html

 

This is an interesting point. By 'removing' himself from all the companies he would be getting away from his responsibility for the debt. It will never happen, it cannot be done.

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So will the con-man POTUS elect ever divest his DC Hotel? From the looks of it, he is planning on making a killing charging exorbitant prices to awaiting diplomats. What a good way for foreign dignitaries to funnel money directly to the con-man POTUS himself.

 

Thirsty at Trump's DC hotel bar? Get ready for a yuge bill

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/donald-trump-dc-hotel-bar/index.html?

 

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There has actually been some fairly serious discussion about Trump just charging ahead without doing more than saying "I'm not going to control my businesses", and then issuing presidential pardons to himself, his kids, his cabinet members and anyone else in his administration who falls afoul of the various ethics rules and laws.

 

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On 1/6/2017 at 9:19 AM, Andaman Al said:

This is an interesting point. By 'removing' himself from all the companies he would be getting away from his responsibility for the debt. It will never happen, it cannot be done.

 

How would this be any different than how he has built up his business in the first place, using Other People's Money 

 

Do we read about any other supposed billionaire that has been in bankruptcy so many times they have lost count, so when it comes to Trump never use the phrase; it cannot be done 

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9 minutes ago, Andaman Al said:

Well worthy of a watch!

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing!  the pattern is  terrible  

( "cheaper than a war...."   " a foreign governement's gift...."... " who is controlling?... )  

 

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Run, Con-Man, Run! Keep trying to run away from all those failed business dealings. The POTUS position won't hide you from all these pending lawsuits. Hear is to hoping that he suffocates under a tsunami of legal actions so that he never does anything in office at all.

 

Lawsuits over Trump business threaten to tie up presidency

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/10/lawsuits-over-trump-business-threaten-to-tie-up-presidency.html

 

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