(November 26, 2016 at 8:10 pm)Aegon Wrote: He's going to have to sell everything. There's no way around it. There's too much conflict of interest
I think he'll find out exactly how little/much he needs to do to cover himself legally. And once he finds out what those steps are, he'll try to find ways around them. And if he gets caught, what happens next depends on how well/poorly the country is doing. Because if we enter a recession and it gets out that he's been enriching his 'former' businesses while the country hits an economic downturn he won't have the support to just blow it off. He will try to blow it off, though, because I don't think he can help himself. It's one thing to play the aloof, conceited pussy-grabber when you're running against Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. It's another when people finally realize that by "drain the swamp" you were referring to stealing your way onto the Forbes top-ten while unemployment skyrockets.
But if the economy is booming? He'll just line up his detractors against a wall on 5th Avenue and shoot them, I suppose.
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