On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:20:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/13/2016 7:16 PM, Califbill wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:

Well, as much as I am pleased that Hillary won't be running the US
government for the next four years, I think the Donald has some very
serious legal problems ahead. The Constitution specifically forbids him
from personally benefiting in any way through payments or dealings with
any foreign country. Trump has real estate holdings throughout the
world. Unless he sells them all off before Jan 20, it means that if
anybody from another country stays at one of his hotels or even buys a
drink at the hotel bar, Trump is technically in violation of the
Constitution. He's talking about transferring the management to his
sons but that's apparently not enough legally. He postponed a news
conference at which he was going to explain what he was going to do. I
have a hunch that the postponement is because his legal beagles have
advised him that his "solution" isn't going to cut it. Going to be
interesting.




Blind trust, son in charge. Will be very similar to most other POTUS. So
if you have stock in Exxon, you fail the test?



According to many legal beagles a blind trust isn't possible in Trump's
case.

I am still not convinced Trump will be able to actually serve and
still have anything named Trump anywhere. I suppose if he gives the
whole thing to the kids, divests any personal interest at all and
shows no money flowing to him, he might get away with it.
He may point to the Kennedy clan, the Bush holdings and Billy's gas
station as examples of family members running businesses while they
were president. Nobody seemed concerned with Kerry and Heinz that
sells ketchup all over the world. He lost because he was Kerry.