Robert Reich: Trump's private transactions are terrifying — here's why

ROBERT REICH, PRIVATE INTERESTS, SAUDI ARABIA, PRIVATE INTERESTS,

"....After two years of Trump we may have overlooked the essence of his insanity: His brain sees only private interests transacting. It doesn’t comprehend the public interest.

Private transactions can’t be wrong or immoral because, by definition, they require that every party to them be satisfied. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a deal.

Viewed this way, everything else falls into place.

For example, absent a public interest, there can’t be conflicts of interest.

So when lobbyists representing the Saudi government paid for an estimated 500 nights at Trump’s Washington, D.C.hotel within a month of his election, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman rented so many rooms at theTrump International Hotel in Manhattan that its revenues rose in 2018 after years of decline, Trump saw it as half of a private transaction....."

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Robert Reich: Trump's private transactions are terrifying — here's why

After two years of Trump we may have overlooked the essence of his insanity: His brain sees only private interests transacting. It doesn’t comprehend the public interest. Trump has described the payments his bag man, Michael Cohen, made to two women during the 2016 campaign so they wouldn’t disc...

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