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Old 11-22-2016, 11:38 AM   #2568
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'Trump on his businesses/conflict q's: "The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest."'

This is totally consistent with the fascism accusations. Trump doesn't care about right and wrong, not because he's bad but because he doesn't view the world that way. There is no right or wrong, there's just the struggle to improve things for one's self and one's kin. On a global scale, international law isn't actual right and wrong to be adhered to, it's just noise and the only right is what you can do to gain advantage.

He's right that the president has special protection from conflict of interest laws that apply to everyone else, but that's to facilitate the activities of the president, not to make the president's business empire bigger.
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