Topics discussed today in this thread: #### poor people, Asshat Piers Morgan, Celebrities and their relevance.
Kind of important topic mentioned, but ignored: Trump's son-in-law and the massive conflicts of interest.
What Trump is glad we're ignoring: His secretary of state nominee being involved in Exxon skirting embargoes, including Iran.
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ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria and Sudan through a European subsidiary while President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of State was a top executive of the oil giant and those countries were under U.S. sanctions as state sponsors of terrorism, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show.
That business connection is likely to surface Wednesday at a confirmation hearing for ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The SEC letter questioned ExxonMobil’s failure to disclose to shareholders that it had transactions with three state sponsors of terrorism. Decisions to make such disclosures should be based on “the potential impact of corporate activities upon a company`s reputation and share value,” and not simply the monetary value of the transactions, the SEC said.
The sales were conducted in 2003, 2004 and 2005 by Infineum, in which ExxonMobil owned a 50% share, according to SEC documents unearthed by American Bridge, a Democratic research group.
ExxonMobil told USA TODAY the transactions were legal because Infineum, a joint venture with Shell Corporation, was based in Europe and the transactions did not involve any U.S. employees.
The filings, from 2006, show that the company had $53.2 million in sales to Iran, $600,000 in sales to Sudan and $1.1 million in sales to Syria during those three years.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...rson/96359776/
I mean you can say the media isn't doing it's job on Trump or whatever. But we're all pretty guilty too of not staying focused on what should be more important matters. I hope that come January 21 we can get all of the Trump nonsense out of systems and focus on what a debacle his administration will be, and not what a distracting asshat he's trying to be with Twitter and other means.