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Biden Inc: White House struggles to rein in potential family business conflicts (www.washingtonexaminer.com)          REEEEEEE!        
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JESUSJUGS 249 points ago +249 / -0

Trump had to give up all business dealings. They need to do the same.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 144 points ago +144 / -0

Make sure to phone the GOP and your local AG for why they aren't suing over emoluments and self enrichment.

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deleted 58 points ago +59 / -1
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Puppy528 27 points ago +28 / -1

Or find other options besides just asking.

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JerryNadlerBeltFund 9 points ago +9 / -0

Oh my god, you’re inciting violence by explicitly commanding people to murder officials!

Did I do that right?

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somercet 10 points ago +11 / -1

Exactly.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 1 point ago +1 / -0

Cause it's more profitable being the underdog and have a convenient excuse to never get things done?

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Brulz_Lulz 9 points ago +9 / -0

Exactly! Worst case scenario, you lose and create precedent, thus seriously damaging the Democrats ability to use this as a line of attack in the future.

Rat faced MSM: Mr. Republican congressman why haven't you divorced yourself from your irrelevant small business while in Congress.

Republican: Well as we saw in the court cases vs biden...

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South_Florida_Guy 77 points ago +77 / -0

Re: Trump: OMG this billionaire might get rich now because he's president! Conflict! Fraud! Shut it down!

Everyone else: these regular politicians got mega wealthy after they took office, no biggie

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Chopblock 15 points ago +15 / -0

MUH BOTH SIDES!

Well, there’s quite a big difference between what Trump was even accused of doing and what—

ALL POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT!

Except unlike the rest of them Trump WASN’T a—

IF YOU STILL THINK TRUMP’S SANE THEN YOU’RE INSANE!

That sounds like a meaningless phrase you parroted off the televi—

PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD LOST RESPECT FOR AMERICA! HE’S PROVEN TO BE THE BIGGEST LIAR! HE THREATENED OUR DEMOCRATIC NORMS! HE SAID RACISTS ARE GOOD ON BOTH SIDES! HE WAS IMPEACHED AFTER MUELLER PROVED HE WASN’T EXONERATED!!!

*Takes deep breath

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KekistanPM 2 points ago +2 / -0

Except unlike the rest of them Trump WASN’T a—

Proof you know how to reddit

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Comanche_Moon 21 points ago +21 / -0

Now, pedes. I'm sure Creepy-Sleepy plans to donate his salary while he's in office. /s

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unicornpoop 2 points ago +2 / -0

These corrupt mega rich asshats won't even throw their crumbs to peasants.

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DickTick 7 points ago +7 / -0

I'm certainly not trying to defend the fucking Communists in the White House at the present moment, but if I'm not mistaken didn't all of Trump's children continue running his businesses? While also in and out of the White House?

I'm just trying to make sure I see both sides and doing my damnedest not to simply contribute to an echo chamber... Can be good but other times they can slowly destroy a movement from the inside....

So if I'm incorrect then I would love for someone to correct me because this would be a fantastic red pill to put in my repertoire "if" I am incorrect....

Edit - Id also rather not have apples to battleships comparisons... Either youre President and your children do continue running the family businesses while moving in and out of the White House constantly - or they don't... I don't really see how there can be much of a middle ground with the lack of transparency we have always had from every administration in American history... that would mean there's absolutely no way to prove if your kids did keep running their businesses and did keep coming in out of the White House or that they were doing everything above board and that nothing that ever went on in the White House affected or changed business dealings or proceedings....

So since there's no way to prove that, then to me personally anyway, it means that if you are President and you have children and those children continue running many millions of dollars worth of private businesses while their dad is President and they are still allowed to come and go in the WH, along with secret service protection an absolutely no way to know if dealings in the White House are affecting their dealings of the family businesses...... I just don't see how that could ever be a good thing, no matter who the administration is and, as much as I love Trump like an actual father, I honestly don't see how his administration was any different on this particular front.....

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WTXGRL 16 points ago +16 / -0

My issue with biden and his “business interests” is that, by and large, they’re ill-gotten. They’re not wealthy due to real estate and hotels, they’re wealthy from selling off America to the highest foreign bidders—and domestic bidders as well. Aside from his from his brother Frank, does anyone (including biden) have an actual title? Lobbyist...not a legit job...board member...not a legit job...every person in Biden’s (and it would appear, harris’) family has made their nut on the back of biden’s shady political career. And if Trump’s kids ran his legitimate businesses while Trump was in office, that’s wholly different from biden’s son, brothers, sister, etc. accepting cash for influence. So, I understand your effort to compare apples to apples with Trump and biden, but the two are incomparable.

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FLmanTampa64 2 points ago +2 / -0

Wrong, Hunter Biden was paid millions strictly because of his superior business negotiating skills and extreme intelligence. After all, Joe said he was the smartest man he knows, and we know Joe's opinion is beyond reproach.

Also, Hunter looks so intelligent and suave smoking a pipe.

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prophylactic 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nailed it. Lmao.

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Tejanopede 13 points ago +13 / -0

No fuck that. Don’t extend courtesies that they don’t extend to us. Don’t argue with logic, don’t reason with them, just run over them as much as possible. That’s all they do and it’s all they respect. Fuck these people, they literally STOLE a presidential election from you in the USA. I can’t say this enough. Fuck them.

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Monsterfan 3 points ago +3 / -0

You are correct. Even people here STILL don't get it.

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unicornpoop 2 points ago +2 / -0

Once upon a time in the Weimar Republic...

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DAR1783 8 points ago +8 / -0

As I understand it......Trump resigned from running his businesses and transferred ownership into a trust which would be a living trust, and run by his kids as trustees, who will inherit the properties and businesses held within the trust. Estate and tax planning within a family. Nothing wrong with it unless your name is Donald Trump, nothing wrong with the kids inheriting the Trump empire unless their name is Trump.
Then, obviously, crimes are automatically committed.
The problem with the biden family is their 'businesses' are just the tip of one planet sized black iceberg of corruption.
Now do congress. Another iceberg.

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Kag_Maga 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah I think you are right that Trump did not fully divest himself of potential conflicts of interest. One could excuse this by saying his interest were too manifold being that he is so wealthy and there was no good way .... blah blah blah who cares

I'm done holding myself to a standard that my enemies use against me. My sense of honorable combat includes ripping the nuts off of someone that is trying to kill me. Not sorry.

This is one of the great weapons used against conservatives, well after the elections were stolen from the most popular president in our lifetimes, all that goes out the window. We aren't conservatives anymore, we are patriots. And patriots.win

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Build_the_Narwhal 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm done holding myself to a standard that my enemies use against me.

This.

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click2flush 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good question, but Biden needs to do WHATEVER they made Trump do or be called out, right?

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StartAgain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Democrats even accused Trump for not doing it. Notice they're not doing the same for Biden. Everyone can now see in plain sight what massive hypocrites they are and that the anti-Trump narrative was for them to get back into power.