Remember when Trump said he could be President and run his businesses also?
But, in order to continue running his businesses, he had to have people that would be loyal and be willing to work around the normal government operations.
He has not stopped running his businesses.
He wanted people that could work within the shadows of government, but in secret.
That is why Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, attempted to set up a secret phone service to the Kremlin, without the knowledge of the FBI or anyone in government.
That is why he had Erik Prince, Betsy DeVos' brother, set up a meeting on an island off the coast of Africa, to discuss how Trump and Russia could work together.
That is why each and every one of them lied when asked about meeting with any Russians.
That is why he sent low-level operators, such as Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, on secret errands to Russia. Also, they discovered that the Russians could help Trump with his election, by stealing the emails of the DNC and John Podesta.
Donald Trump cannot be trusted. He is always working in the shadows. His connections go as deep as Manafort's. He knows some of the biggest criminals in the world. He hired Wilbur Ross for his Cabinet, because he thought it was better to have the camel on the inside pissing out than outside pissing in. Wilbur Ross handled a great deal of the money-laundering deals when he was a VP in a Cyprus Bank.
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he’d figure out a way to make it a corrupt and devious operation. He would send out his minions to shut down the other stands in his neighborhood. Or make them “buy insurance”. Use lemons tainted with arsenic. Not wash his pitchers. Take the money he says he intends to donate to charity and blow it on KFC and ice cream (2 scoops) and not share any of it.
