Politics Countries where Trump does business are not hit by new travel restrictions [View all]

[Stonepounder]

Source: Washington Post

The seven nations targeted for new visitation restrictions by President Trump on Friday all have something in common: They are places he does not appear to have any business interests.

The executive order he signed Friday bars all entry for the next 90 days by travelers from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. Excluded from the lists are several majority-Muslim nations where the Trump Organization is active and which in some cases have also faced troublesome issues with terrorism.

According to the text of the order, the restriction applies to countries that have already been excluded from programs allowing people to travel to the United States without a visa because of concerns over terrorism. Hewing closely to nations already named as terrorism concerns elsewhere in law might have allowed the White House to avoid angering some more powerful and wealthy majority Muslim allies, such as Egypt.

But without divesting from his company, as bipartisan ethics ­experts had advised, Trump is now facing questions about whether he designed the new rules with his own business at least partly in mind.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/countries-where-trump-does-business-are-not-hit-by-new-travel-restrictions/2017/01/28/dd40535a-e56b-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_conflicts-342pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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I know this has been mentioned before. But - why is this not splashed across the front page of every Newspaper and the lead on every News talk-show? This is why we have the Emoluments clause in the Constitution! This is what conflict-of-interest looks like. This is a corrupt, uneducated, thin-skinned, tin-pot dictator-wannabe, who thinks being President is just a matter of telling everyone in the world to behave just the way he tells them to.

Trump doesn't give a damn about the American people, he only cares about himself, about people doing what he wants them to do, and everyone bowing down to him and recognizing him as the most wonderful person in the world.

And the GOP is cowering in silence.