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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:20 AM Mar 2018

Ivanka Trump Never Cut Ties with the Trump Organization

March 12, 2018 at 8:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

McClatchy: “Ivanka Trump — a senior White House adviser who is doing everything from lobbying the Senate on tax policy to representing her father at a G20 summit of world leaders — will pull in more than $1 million a year from the family business that has continued to develop luxury resorts across the globe during the Trump presidency.”

“Some of those Trump-branded developments are hiring state-owned companies for construction, receiving gifts from foreign governments in the form of public land or eased regulations and accepting payments from customers who are foreign officials.”

“Ivanka Trump’s continued relationship with the businesses affiliated with the Trump Organization creates countless potential conflicts of interest prohibited by federal law and federal ethics standards as she works as a special assistant to the president. And just like her father, she is being accused of violating the so-called emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution that forbids government officials — not just presidents — from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the approval of Congress.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/12/ivanka-trump-never-cut-ties-trump-organization/

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Ivanka Trump Never Cut Ties with the Trump Organization (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
The complete lack of consequences for such violations MineralMan Mar 2018 #1

MineralMan

(146,286 posts)
1. The complete lack of consequences for such violations
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:29 AM
Mar 2018

sets a very bad precedent. Unless charges are brought and penalties assessed, the law might as well not exist.

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