Trump's businesses received millions from foreign entities during his presidency

a reply to: Threadbarer

Your thread is not about Biden, it's about Trump, so I stayed on topic.
To quote your good self...

This topic isn't about Comer's fishing expedition to find anything he can to impeach Biden to help Trump's campaign.

This topic is about the documented millions that Trump's businesses received while Trump was President.

First ... I'm not a Trump voter so Im not saying this as a fan ...

Second ... He DIVESTED HIMSELF from his business while he was POTUS.

Third ... that's not a whole lot of money over a four year time period, considering how many business' the Trump empire has and how many countries there are and how many people there are etc etc etc. Kinda small pickings ...

Any direct link to the actual report?

knock knock

knock knock

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: angelchemuel

$2 million a year is certainly much greater than the $4000 loan Hunter paid back that the GOP are trying to impeach Biden over.

Yeah because business are often known to hire crack heads with 0 zero experience in a field to join their board of directors. Yet that is exactly what a foreign energy company did in the ukraine. Maybe you heard of them Burisma?
Perfectly normal . lol

I'm not a trump supporter although he is better than dementia Joe or any loony democrat, but dude your bias is making you look like a fool. I suggest you stop drinking the koolaid.

originally posted by: CriticalStinker

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Threadbarer

Trump divested of his businesses during his term as President.

But you knew that.

This was addressed 7 years ago.

I don’t see anything alarming with this story, but he didn’t divest from the businesses. Just wanted to point that out. He handed control over, but divesting would imply he sold his ownership which didn’t happen.

By the definition of divest, that's what Trump did.

But lets be clear, OP is trying to tie business profits to Trump while in office while minimizing what Biden has done during senator, vp, citizen and POTUS.

Then, clearly unconvincingly, to claim Trump is worse lol.

a reply to: WingDingLuey

White House for Sale

a reply to: Threadbarer

Oh no, someone paid money to a hotel owner to stay in their hotel where a 1 bed suite can cost 14K+ per night........

a reply to: PorkChop96

Oh no a son paid back his dad for a personal loan.

originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: Threadbarer

Oh no, someone paid money to a hotel owner to stay in their hotel where a 1 bed suite can cost 14K+ per night........

Where's the judge to say the clients were "overcharged" for their stays? I'm sure some liberal judge will come along and determine $29.99/night is more than sufficient for night at a Trump hotel.

Wait for it. It's coming.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: DAVID64

This topic isn't about Comer's fishing expedition to find anything he can to impeach Biden to help Trump's campaign.

This topic is about the documented millions that Trump's businesses received while Trump was President.

who said this?

So, when is Comer going to subpoena the Trumps to give depositions?

You should tell whichever idiot typed that, that this thread is STRICTLY about Trump being bad, orange man bad!

I'd raise hell with some uninformed #tard trying to derail your thread. Stop the stupid from messing with your awesome threads!

And YES! an investigation needs to be done into this. Sadly, I think the REPUBLICAN led house is tied up checking into Joe Biden's family getting millions from foreign sources right now, but it sure is nice to see you finally understanding that if you take money from foreign sources and offer nothing in return, there might be a problem and it really needs to be investigated. You are making progress.

a reply to: Threadbarer

Can we stay on topic here please

This is your thread, you should know Biden is not the topic here

a reply to: Threadbarer

I just love how easily fooled you guys are.

a reply to: JinMI

Divesting is selling or relinquishing assets.

You can still own them while not being in control of them.

I wouldn’t normally split hairs on something like this, but contextually divestment is pretty important in politics and it used to be pretty standard. By selling your ownership of a business you can’t profit from the office, or be accused of it.

That said, in recent times theres been rife insider trading, so not divesting is low on the totem pole of tomfoolery.

I can't say much about this until I find out what the transactions were. Did he sell things to foreign countries from his businesses legitimately....I do not think selling products your companies produce to a foreign countries businesses would be considered a problem as long as the sales were not above what they would sell for in America.

It is too early to conclude anything about this, I will wait and see till I get more info on these transactions before making an opinion on this subject.

The fact that the Democrats are bringing this up at a time that Biden and his son are under investigation for taking money for services that are inappropriately accounted for makes me think this is politically motivated to cover up Bidens deals with foreign countries. If these were legitimate sales, then I can say that Trump was not doing something immoral like the Biden's did. I cannot condemn a businessman for doing legitimate business.

This is too fishy for me to automatically believe, but there are plenty of suckers in this country that will believe anything the Democrats say. There are not nearly as many conservatives that will go with the flow on things the Republicans say if it is not true...but there are millions of Democrats that will follow the corrupt people at the top of their party.

I will just wait and see what this is all about. I feel it is not nearly the same as what Biden's family did by taking bribes from corrupt companies...but I could be wrong too...I hope they do not keep all of the proof on this from the people while pushing political anti-trump propaganda to make him look bad.

No article I scanned said what they were talking about. Maybe his businesses had contracts in place he had to fulfill or he would lose lots of money if he cancelled the contract after he got elected president for all we know.

This is not the same as what the Biden Family did. Biden's son's dealings were not legit it appears. Money did go to Biden improperly too from what they are showing us in the investigation.

Maybe we should make a new law that no politician can get any money or do any financial deals with foreign governments or businesses or even stock markets or hold money in any foreign accounts this summer. That would make sure that politicians were dependent on this country alone...not any of their assets should be in any other country anywhere, they should not even own stock in any foreign car company or a pharmaceutical company like Bayer.

By elevating his personal financial interests and the policy priorities of
corrupt foreign powers over the American public interest

That was in the report. Those words. Front and Center. Verbatim. I copied and pasted.

What, uh............ What "Policy Priorities of Corrupt Foreign Powers"? And "over the American public interest"?

Surely this (CENSORED CONGLOMERATION OF WORDS THAT I CANNOT SAY) that drafted this report meant to say that he elevated American Public Interests over Left-Leaning Interests? Because that's what happened. It had to have been a typo. They literally come out swinging with lies. Not even into the actual report, and they're lying through their teeth.

Oh my god, this is going to be an amazing election year.

Are you stoked? I'm stoked.

a reply to: visitedbythem

That aint nothing! He has lived in liberals heads for the better part of a decade

rent and mortgage free.

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: JinMI

Divesting is selling or relinquishing assets.

You can still own them while not being in control of them.

I wouldn’t normally split hairs on something like this, but contextually divestment is pretty important in politics and it used to be pretty standard. By selling your ownership of a business you can’t profit from the office, or be accused of it.

That said, in recent times theres been rife insider trading, so not divesting is low on the totem pole of tomfoolery.

Relinquishing, yes, sure. Selling off? I don't think that was ever on the table.

And certainly handing over the mantle of the businesses while in office.

I agree with your positions here though. The bottom of the barrel is obvious.

Especially in the greater context of current day politics.

a reply to: JinMI

A lot of politicians have sold their businesses prior to office so it can’t be perceived they profit from their position.

Again, those days are long gone and many openly profit from their office.

Whether or not Trump profited from his office is a very nuanced debate. On one hand the value of the businesses went down at one point, on the other hand the US tax payers paid directly into his businesses for room and board for the Secret Service at his tower and hotels.

Again, in the grand scheme of things it’s not the same as politicians investing based off of prior knowledge or making decisions on policy that effects their holdings.

It’s sad that the ethics are so loose in government now, but many who go after Trump don’t hold their party to the same standards and vise verse.

Trump should have been impeached for this. Perhaps a preemptive one could be done so if he wins, the work is already done, you know, to streamline things a bit and be more pragmatic.

After the impeachment, an investigation can be called for. Just to verify the impeachment was just, like the first one where Trump asked Ukraine to look into the Biden crimes before the public was informed.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Ill even concede that it would be difficult to prove that Trump didnt profit from his time in office after his tenure was complete.

The name, the office in conjunction with for profit businesses.

Now for the important question, was any of the profit contingent on policy and decisions like we are seeing with Biden?