It’s daunting to try to keep track of the Trump family’s conflicts of interest. They have moved the Overton Window so far that future presidents might accept large cash gifts from corporations and foreign heads of state without anyone caring.
What’s the Overton Window? Here is the Wikipedia definition.
In normal times, the media and the public used to become outraged when an elected official accepted large gifts or had blatant conflicts of interest. Under Trump, no one cared that a foreign state gave Trump a $400 superluxury jet to use as Air Force 1 and to keep after he leaves the Presidency.
Here is another such story that reeks of conflict of interest.
The New York Times reported that Tiffany Trump and her husband were enjoying a vacation on a super-yacht owned by an oil company executive even as Tiffany’s father-in-law was negotiating with the owner of the yacht. (And no one cared when Trump appointed his son-in-law’s father as his envoy to Africa on the mistaken belief that the gentleman was a billionaire).
The Times reported:
Massad Boulos traveled to Libya in July as the State Department’s senior Africa adviser. But as he talked to energy executives and government leaders, his other position was no less important. He was also the father-in-law of President Trump’s daughter Tiffany.
That family connection was so significant that some Libyan officials had privately taken to calling him “Abu Tiffany,” Arabic for “Tiffany’s father.”
While Mr. Boulos posed for photographs and announced deals to ramp up Libyan oil and gas production, Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos, were cruising the French Riviera aboard one of the world’s largest superyachts — owned by a major broker of Libyan oil.
The yacht, the Phoenix 2, is a floating palace with two helipads, a swimming pool and an 18-foot bronze figurehead of a flaming phoenix rising from its bow. It is not available to charter. But when it last was, it rented for over $1.4 million per week, with the listing highlighting an Art Deco interior and custom Steinway piano.
The vessel is owned by the billionaire oil traders Ercument Bayegan and his wife, Ruya Bayegan. Ms. Bayegan’s energy company, BGN International, stands to benefit from any increase in Libyan oil production.
Massad Boulos is the face of the Trump administration’s diplomacy in Africa, a strategy that prioritizes cutting business deals over international comity and the promotion of democracy. The presence of his son and Ms. Trump on a luxury yacht owned by international billionaire executives is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end and the Trump family begins.

I am old enough to remember Gary Hart having to end his presidential bid over a dalliance with another woman, Wilbur Mills’ downfall over his infatuation with an exotic dancer, Watergate, ABSCAM. All scandals that ended political careers.
Thr GOP feigned outrage over these scandals,but now turns a blind eye to everything that Trump and his family do.
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this is obviously a left wing blog. Nobody mentions Hunter’s laptop anymore. There’s a country song in that.
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Don’t nobody ever mention Hunter’s laptop anymore
it’s a thing that bothers me
it makes me kinda sore
all they ever talk about is Trump and all his bribes
but I have spent my whole life thinking Hunter hurt my tribe
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You forgot to include, mama, trains, apple pie, prison, getting drunk, etc. . . .
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I was hoping you would come in there. BTW. Shoot me an email. I have been wanting to hear from you
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Will do. Been battling a cold for a week, not doing as much on the internet.
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