Were folders stuffed with Trump's 'business plan' papers blank props?

[NATI BENGALS]

(01-21-2017, 06:01 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-promised-to-resign-from-his-companies-but-no-record-hes-done-so

Come on. Give the fraudster con man the benefit of the doubt.

[GMDino]

(01-21-2017, 08:18 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Come on. Give the fraudster con man the benefit of the doubt.

I know, I know.  How dare we want proof?  Or let the media get proof?  Just trust what's in his heart.

[BmorePat87]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/22/511103785/trump-is-yet-to-sever-ties-with-his-business-despite-promises-to-do-so-report-sa?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170122

It looks like they most likely were just props.

[Griever]

(01-23-2017, 12:04 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/22/511103785/trump-is-yet-to-sever-ties-with-his-business-despite-promises-to-do-so-report-sa?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170122

It looks like they most likely were just props.

beat me to it

[Benton]

(01-23-2017, 12:04 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/22/511103785/trump-is-yet-to-sever-ties-with-his-business-despite-promises-to-do-so-report-sa?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170122

It looks like they most likely were just props.

Trump knows the legal system. Bury people in attorneys, drag a case out for years. At worst, he's bought himself 18 months. At best, he makes it through the first term.

[GMDino]

So NPR is saying that this past Monday (1/30) some of the required paperwork turning over the running of his businesses to his sons has started to show up in searches.

However his boys have been with him at the WH for various announcements.

Does anyone really believe he's letting those two run his empire with no interference?































He sure is shady.  <-- In before the snark attack.

[GMDino]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/03/24/after-promising-not-donald-talk-business-with-father-eric-trump-says-president-give-him-financial-reports/#3d2eb1bf359a

Quote:After Promising Not To Talk Business With Father, Eric Trump Says He'll Give Him Financial Reports

Donald Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr., left, and Eric Trump, walk in Trump Tower on November 14, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Eric Trump sits behind his desk on the 25th floor of Trump Tower on a late February day in New York City, dressed in a slightly less formal version of his father’s go-to power uniform—blue suit, white buttoned-down shirt, no tie. There are reminders of Donald Trump everywhere in this office, including the TV in the corner that beams out wall-to-wall news about the president any time his son turns it on. Amidst it all, Eric Trump, who now manages the Trump Organization with his brother Don Jr., wants to emphasize that the Trump business is separate from the Trump presidency.

“There is kind of a clear separation of church and state that we maintain, and I am deadly serious about that exercise,” he says, echoing previous statements from his father. “I do not talk about the government with him, and he does not talk about the business with us. That’s kind of a steadfast pact we made, and it’s something that we honor.”

But less than two minutes later, he concedes that he will continue to update his father on the business while he is in the presidency. “Yeah, on the bottom line, profitability reports and stuff like that, but you know, that’s about it.” How often will those reports be, every quarter? “Depending, yeah, depending.” Could be more, could be less? “Yeah, probably quarterly.” One thing is clear: “My father and I are very close,” Eric Trump says. “I talk to him a lot. We’re pretty inseparable.”

The apparent contradiction troubles ethics experts. “The statement that the president made earlier that he wasn’t going to talk to his children about the business sounded good, but the reality was there was no way to enforce it,” says Larry Noble, general counsel of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and a former chief ethics officer at the Federal Election Commission. “He is breaking down one of the few barriers he claimed to be establishing between him and his businesses, and those barriers themselves were weak to begin with. But if he is now going to get reports from his son about the businesses, then he really isn’t separate in any real way.”

George W. Bush’s former chief ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, expressed a similar sentiment. “It just means that a lot of what they say is malarkey because the president isn’t distancing himself from the business,” he says. “It doesn’t matter how much of the management is being delegated. Things are always delegated in business, down to who the hotel clerk is at the Trump hotel. But at the end of the day, he owns the business. He has the conflicts that come with it.”

The relationship between the president and his children has changed in some ways though. Don Jr. told the New York Times that he has barely talked to his father at all recently. Eric tends to stick to more serious conversations with his father today than he once did. “I also realize how big of a magnitude the decisions he makes and the things he has on his plate,” Eric Trump says. “I minimize fluff calls that you might otherwise have because I understand that time is a resource. And that resource is important, especially when you’ve got the biggest job in the world.”

Although their father’s promotion to president pushed the sons into bigger roles at the family company, they had already been central figures inside the Trump Organization for years. Even before Donald Trump began his bid for the White House, Eric Trump was managing the Trump International Las Vegas, a 50-50 partnership between his father and billionaire Phil Ruffin. Don Jr. struck the bond with Malaysian heir Joo Kim Tiah, who built the world’s newest Trump tower, a licensed deal in Vancouver. And both brothers have always had more contact than their father with the Trump Organization’s partner in Indonesia, Hary Tanoesoedibjo. Paulo Figueiredo Filho, who partnered with the Trumps in Brazil, worked mostly with the children as well. Donald Trump “gives his sons a lot of autonomy to make the company’s decisions,” he says. “They were already conducting 90% of the business, even before the presidency.”

The Trump Organization has curtailed some of its international work, pulling out of deals in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Brazil, while pledging to do no new foreign deals (though it has apparently resurrected an old deal in the Dominican Republic). Trump’s international hotel licensing and management business only makes up $220 million of his estimated $3.5 billion fortune, but it’s the most dynamic part of the Trump portfolio—and it throws off chunks of cash with virtually no risk. As the Trumps have winded down some international deals, they continue to push forward with new domestic agreements.

“From a business standpoint, is the presidency beneficial?” says Eric Trump. “We’re doing great in all of our assets. I would say that we also made great sacrifices and that the business made great sacrifices in that when you limit an international business to only domestic properties, when you put hundreds of millions of dollars of cash into a campaign, when you run with very, very tight and strict rules and the things that we do every single day in terms of compliance—I don’t know. You could look at it either way.”

Donald Trump will be keeping an eye on both the business and his children. “These papers are all just a piece of the many, many companies that are being put into trust to be run by my two sons,” the president said, standing next to stacks of documents at a January press conference where he announced he would hand over management to Eric and Don Jr. “I hope at the end of eight years I’ll come back and say ‘Oh you did a good job.’ Otherwise, if they do a bad job, I’ll say, ‘You’re fired.’”

[GMDino]

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/03/spicer-just-insulted-pulitzer-winning-journalists-response-epic/

Quote:Earlier today, ProPublica reported that President Donald Trump altered his financial trust on February 10, a month after announcing that he had isolated himself from his interests, to allow secret withdrawals any time he wants.


Asked about the revelation today at the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer predictably dismissed the news.


“Just because a left-wing blog makes the point of something changing doesn’t mean it actually happened,” Spicer said. “I’m not aware that there was ever a change in the trust. And the idea that the President is withdrawing money at some point is exactly the purpose of what the trust, why a trust is set up, regardless of an individual.”

Among the many problems with Spicer’s statement, including that the President did change the trust, is the fact that ProPublica is by no one’s definition “a left-wing blog.” To the contrary, the decade-old journalistic giant is one of the nation’s best regarded investigative news sources and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.

ProPublica swung back at Spicer and his boss along with their loose relationship to the truth, tweeting out a string of facts that the White House would rather people not talk about.

The thread is more than a perfect smackdown of Spicer’s strategy of schoolyard insults, it provides a great shorthand for the secrets and lies being perpetrated by the Trump regime. Every American should read through these tweets, if nothing else, for a reminder of the intense dishonesty at the highest reaches of our federal government.

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1/ So @seanspicer just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few...

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.@seanspicer 2/ @seanspicer was trying to knock our story that Trump’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytime http://propub.li/2ouRDkC 
4:49 PM - 3 Apr 2017

Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us
Previously unreported changes to President Trump’s trust stipulate that it “shall distribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request.”
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.@seanspicer 3/ @seanspicer said he’s “not aware of any change in the trust.” And he then said this: https://youtu.be/yCtqiyyy5JU pic.twitter.com/lrQpWkZjKh

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.@seanspicer 4/ The Trump trust doc was revised & signed Feb. 10. Here you go, @seanspicer: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3525993-Contracting-Officer-Letter-March-23-2017.html#document/p161/a346553 …pic.twitter.com/9odXRrFEjV
4:50 PM - 3 Apr 2017

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.@seanspicer 5/ We do no-surprises journalism. We told the Trump Org & WH what we knew and gave them time to explain.They didn’t. http://propub.li/2nxumcR pic.twitter.com/paZfZWr4W1

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.@seanspicer 6/ What we do is hold people in power accountable, no matter who they are, or what names they call us. We do it with facts. Like...
4:51 PM - 3 Apr 2017

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.@seanspicer 7/ The fact that Tom Price bought drug company stock same day he pushed policy that could help the company. http://propub.li/2ouugrw 

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.@seanspicer 8/ The fact that Trump has quietly installed officials across the government to be his eyes and ears: http://propub.li/2ouJCft 
4:52 PM - 3 Apr 2017

Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government
We have obtained a list of more than 400 Trump administration hires, including dozens of lobbyists and some from far-right media.
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.@seanspicer 9/ The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire: http://propub.li/2nxakPR 

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.@seanspicer 10/ Or the fact that 5 top Trump officials have made false statements to Congress:http://propub.li/2ouRtK2 
4:52 PM - 3 Apr 2017

5 Trump Cabinet Members Who’ve Made False Statements to Congress
Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t alone.
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.@seanspicer 11/ And yes, our job always has been and will be holding *all* those in power accountable.

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.@seanspicer 12/ So, we wrote about fact that Obama caved to big banks and didn’t deliver on his promises to help homeowners: http://propub.li/2ouKKQs 
4:53 PM - 3 Apr 2017

Govt’s Loan Mod Program Crippled by Lax Oversight and Deference to Banks
The Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program known as HAMP has been weakened, perhaps fatally, by a posture of cooperation—rather than enforcement—with the nation’s biggest...
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.@seanspicer 13/ We wrote about former Obama officials lobbying to push through a merger that could make flying more miserable: http://propub.li/2ouTAhh 

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.@seanspicer 14/ And wrote about how Obama was falling short on his own promises to grant pardons. http://propub.li/2ouNNrE 
4:53 PM - 3 Apr 2017

[url=https://t.co/eYO0xJLcT5]Obama Isn’t Following Through on Pardons Promise, Says His Former Pardons Attorney
ProPublica previously highlighted problems at the pardons office, and racial disparities in presidential pardons.
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