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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
well you left the substance of mine, so Cheers!
But as understood, your point was that the entire family has no business being in international businesses that might gain Chinese TMs? I don't know that we have ever had a president that owned as many businesses. Certainly we have not in my lifetime. So accepting a FB meme about what he should do is maybe a bit of a stretch for me- moreso when the meme is telling me what his aide (his daughter, but still) should do.
And they would have applied for the applications years ago. It seems to me the real scare post is he/she should have dumped their businesses because of REASON? Not "He/She got Chinese TMs!!!! they're valuable!"
And I was not hating on your response. You did at least respond. I was hating on those that stick their head in the sand.
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One of the really striking things about this debate is that we're focused on whether he got a substantive benefit or merely the appearance of a benefit on these TMs -- where every past president avoided the appearance of a benefit, understanding the damage done by even such an appearance. Yes, it's a higher standard than we'd hold other people to. But that's because being President used to mean something.
I understand that TMs are not a big deal, and mostly administrative in granting, but, you know, once upon a time, it was a huge, many months long controversy when a Presidential brother who was kept at arms length from the White House decided to cash in on his brother's fame by marketing "Billy Beer"....
