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In reply to the discussion: This is now a full blown Constitutional crisis and needs to go to the SCOTUS [View all]csziggy
(34,141 posts)We would need a full audit of all of his business holdings to see where his obligations are and where he is getting money. Unfortunately there are no laws and no tradition - as there has been for tax returns over the last several decades - that force an audit. That is mostly because past presidents have put their assets into true blind trusts to remove the possibility of any conflict of interest. Trump will never do that and there are no laws forcing him to.
If the US survives a Trump presidency, I would not be surprised if there are moves to force financial disclosures and to compel placing all assets into blind trusts for ALL federal officials all the way to the president. No one should be above the law, especially our chief executive!
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