Let's imagine for a moment that President Obama had done this.
A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker.
“President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast,” Trump announced on Twitter Sunday morning. “Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”
Trump did not mention in that tweet or its follow-ups that on Thursday, the developer of a theme park resort outside of Jakarta had signed a deal to receive as much as $500 million in Chinese government loans, as well as another $500 million from Chinese banks, according to Agence France-Presse. Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, has a deal to license the Trump name to the resort, which includes a golf course and hotels.
Let's just make this clear.
Yeah. But it's okay for him to accept payoffs from foreign powers because he's the President, right?
- Trump calls for a trade war with China and proposes tariffs
- The US government bans Chinese company ZTE from selling its products in the US because the company was spying on Americans.
- China loans up to $500 million to a Trump-related business.
- Trump instructs the Commerce Dept. to give ZTE a break because of "jobs in China."
Yeah. But it's okay for him to accept payoffs from foreign powers because he's the President, right?
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