Tuesday, March 21, 2017

President Trump is funneling Taxpayer money into his businesses!! A time to make money.

http://liberalspeak.com/1140/brave-lawyers-risk-everything-tell-truth-trump-funneling-federal-money-businesses/



Brave Lawyers Risk Everything To Tell The Truth: Trump Is Funneling Federal Money To His Own Businesses

Concerned voters are getting a new glimpse into the elaborate scheme President Donald Trump is pulling on the American people.

Two leading American political analysts delivered a major blow to the Trump administration this week with a new report detailing the ways Trump is using his power as president to improve his own financial status.

“All kinds of accusations have been leveled against President Donald Trump, but few people have questioned his ability to find creative ways to pay himself with other people’s money,” said Ron Fein and Brianne Gorod, the authors of the new report.
The first and most obvious problem is that Trump is making frequent visits to his own hotels, restaurants, and resorts. In many cases, the federal government is making direct payments to Trump’s businesses.
It’s not difficult to imagine the various ways in which the federal government may end up paying Trump’s businesses. In fact, it’s already happening.
The Department of Defense is looking into renting a floor of Trump Tower, which could cost $1.5 million per year.
On top of that, the Secret Service is apparently also considering renting space there.
Similarly, when Trump visits Florida’s Mar-A-Lago resort, whether on vacation or on official travel (such as his trip with the prime minister of Japan), he is accompanied by other federal employees: Secret Service officers, White House aides, a military attaché and so on. Recently, he had dinner there with multiple members of his Cabinet and the White House counsel.
These other federal employees may not stay in the presidential suite, but every expense they incur at Mar-A-Lago, from a bottle of Trump Ice to rental of space for a secure command center, will ultimately put money in Trump’s pocket.
But that’s not all.
There’s an even sneakier way that Trump is using government power to enrich himself.
Read more, from U.S. News and World Report:
The power of the modern presidency means that Trump can direct policy changes that will benefit his business interests. Of course, all presidents direct policy – that’s their job. But previous presidents, some of whom were quite wealthy before taking office, divested real estate and other investments, and re-invested their funds either into widely-held, “conflict-free” assets (such as Treasury bonds), or appointed an independent trustee to manage their money in a “blind trust,” in which a trustee might buy specific stocks or other investments, but only the trustee (and not the president) would know what investments the trust holds.
Trump’s trust is not like that. He knows exactly what assets the trust holds. Indeed, for many of the assets, the name “Trump” is plastered over the front door. That means he has the unprecedented ability to use the federal government’s regulatory power to benefit his businesses.
Trump is out of control – he must be stopped!

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