International business entanglements, these concerns are getting bigger not smaller with each passing day in the news as we get closer to him being sworn in. Because this stuff keeps coming up, when it comes up, the more you look at it, the worse it is. For example, we now know that the daughter of the President Elect, she apparently got a Big Business Deal Greenlighted by a governmentcontrolled bank in japan right after that bizarre and otherwise inexplicable spectacle where the President Elect invited his daughter to sit in on his inperson meeting with the japanese Prime Minister. If that deal in fact only got greenlit because of the new political position of the trump family, well, then that action by that governmentcontrolled bank in japan, thats pretty clearly a Foreign Governments gift to the president s family. Thats just one. With each passing day theres another one of these now. They are getting bigger and worse over time. Those things by trumps business . If the Family Busine
king. ultimately his fantastical secret corruption became a failure in history s lessons is of how to run a country or rather how not to run a country. that s what happened in 1670. and in the 1700s, when it came time for the founders of our country to set the rules for how we would run this country, that historical example, which was only a couple of generations old at the time, that historical example of charles ii, that arguably is what the founders of our country had in mind when they put into our constitution an explicit rule that says federal officials can t take things of value from foreign vernments. you can t be involved in running our country at any level while some other country is giving you stuff because, obviously, that basically makes you a paid foreign agent. even if the upkeep of your seven mistresses is very expensive, you just can t do it.
england, he really was secretly on the payroll of another country. and in terms of the deal, regardless of how the agreed-upon religious conversion thing worked out, not actually sure if it did, history is a little fuzzy on the issue. but regardless of the converting to be a catholic issue, even if you remove from the equation what the king of england offered france for his side of the deal, even if you just take that whole thing out of it about him converting and you only look at france s side of the deal, even if you only look at what they gave, that was still a good deal. because think about it, they had the king of another country on a tether. the king of freaking england was their paid agent. i mean, even at the exorbitant rate that he was charging them and he was charging them a lot, frankly, it s cheaper than a war. you just pay for the guy. and that s what charles ii did. charles ii was kind of a lousy
bob dole may be 93, but that does not mean he s retired. he s still at it. it s fair to say we may have had some influence in setting up that diplomatic bombast of a phone call between the president-elect and the leader of taiwan. think about that for a second. i mean, it is one thing to be directly on the payroll of a foreign country, king charles. it is another thing to effectively be on the payroll but to collect your fee through your family business. but it is a third and co-equal thing to be like an empty set on foreign policy, to be ignorant or naive or agnostic or cynical enough about policy about america s interests that you re happy to be an instrument of a foreign government. you re happy to be an instrument of a foreign government or anyone who pays the right people
directly on the payroll of a foreign country, king charles. it is another thing to effectively be on the payroll but to collect your fee through your family business. but it is a third and co-equal thing to be like an empty set on foreign policy, to be ignorant or naive or agnostic or cynical enough about policy about america s interests that you re happy to be an instrument of a foreign government. you re happy to be an instrument of a foreign government or anyone who pays the right people to get next to you to tell you what to say. even on super, supersensitive high policy issues that you may think you understand. but it s one thing to think of your president as radical but another to have people bragging openly that your president is someone who does what he s told