Trump’s Conflicts of Interest Endanger Everyone.
There’s no getting around it, or even simply pretending that only the US will be impacted. Trump’s wholehearted and enthusiastic embrace of corruption through his conflicts of interest are dangerous — literally.
Even if he'd divested himself and properly taken steps to avoid conflicts of interest, Trump's properties around the world - or any properties licensing his brand name - becomes a potential target for protestors and for terrorist attack.
It's a lethal combination should the two ever happen concurrently.
With Trump's signaling that he fully intends to abuse the power and office of the Presidency to increase the success of his brand and the power/influence of his family and organization, all those properties will now require significantly enhanced security.
He has painted a brightly lit target on all of them, in and out of the United States, and with them he's also successfully endangered anyone in or in the vicinity of his properties.
Nice job, jackass.
Der Pumpkinführer rises...the stage is set. Anyone hankering for a fight - or wanting an excuse to start a war, for example - now has ample targets of opportunity set up, and the countdown has begun on these ticking time bombs.
Noted within the text of the banner image, here’s essentially a concise summation of my point:
Trump's conflicts of interest create targets of opportunity for far more than simply protestors: they create and constitute very real target rich opportunities for foreign governments and - far worse - for terrorist organizations. Unless they are secured (and even then), the likelihood of an attack just increased exponentially as Trump indicates that he's not divesting himself from his businesses.
The opportunities for chaos abound, and grow with each passing day — and he hasn’t even taken the oath or assumed the roles and responsibilities of the Presidency yet.
The Trump Administration is gleefully racing toward occupying the most powerful office in our government and in the world, promising to immediately and irrevocably compromise our national security by enshrining their intentional graft, corruption, dereliction of duty and abdication of responsibility into the laws, rules, and regulations that guide our country, creating multiple rich targets of opportunity through intentional, willful criminal endangerment and abuse of the power, authority, and reputation of the Presidency.
And the Republicans are fully on board with this, taking the crazy train all the way to the edge of the cliff and giving it a bit more fuel as it plunges over while they gleefully attempt to reap the whirlwind of stupid for their own gain.
At our expense, to our extreme detriment.
Again.
Just like with the George W. Bush/Richard B. Cheney Administration, only now without any semblance of sanity.
For this, both the nation and the world will pay, and pay dearly.