Comment by vasco
1 day ago
I get the position that someone in government or in such special advisor or whatever position he has probably shouldn't be able to own a major newspaper, TV channel or major social media platform. I agree to that. But didn't he buy it much earlier? In these cases I guess they could be forced to have someone else run it sort of like a blind trust but I'm not sure how well that works in practice.
The trust would have to divest and reinvest everything. Otherwise it’s not blind. Simpler to just have people like that not qualify for office when they have clear conflicts of interest.
> But didn't he buy it much earlier?
Probably around the time when he came up with the idea of registering "United States of America Inc." and "Group America LLC"
The neat thing about oligarchy is, none of those decorums matter anymore. The oligarchs just do what they want.
Trump funneled US taxpayer money (and foreign government money) into Mar-a-Lago his whole first term and still got reelected.