“In sum, how will Trump guarantee that if forced to choose between America’s security and his own bank account, he won’t pick the latter”, Clinton asked in her 19th question. MORE on Wednesday tweeted a list of 20 questions for her Republican rival, focusing on the Trump Foundation and its reported ties to foreign leaders.
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The Newsweek story by Kurt Eichenwald raised questions about Trump’s business relationships and his foreign policy.
But state authorities in Maharashtra refused to make an exception for the Trump Organisation, the report said.
This map provides a guide to where Trump’s interests could conflict with America’s. “When faced with the prospect of losing the millions of dollars that flow into the Trump Organization each year from that Istanbul property, what position would President Trump take on the important issues involving Turkish-American relations, including that country’s role in the fight against ISIS?” As Newsweek explained, “Never before has an American candidate for president had so many ties with American allies and enemies, and never before has a business posed such a threat to the United States”.
Newsweek’s list goes on: Trump has potentially problematic business dealings in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan (all of which are detailed in the magazine) as well as China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany.
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A sweeping investigation into the Trump Organization’s foreign business interests reveals that, if elected, Trump’s patchwork of global business dealings would critically compromise his ability to conduct foreign affairs and could disrupt USA national security. There’s the Trump Organization’s planned expansion in India, where government officials could feel pressure from, or be enticed by, a Trump White House to dismiss an ongoing investigation into one of Trump’s business partners to clear the way for such developments. Eichenwald said that “the head of that organization, who, again, very politically connected, very tied in to the Putin government, backed away from the deal because Trump wanted too much money”.
