{"id":132286,"date":"2016-12-13T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/read-my-lips-no-new-deals.html"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:18:32","slug":"read-my-lips-no-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/read-my-lips-no-new-deals.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Read My Lips. No New Deals.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a more in-depth look at the problems with Trump&#39;s tweeted promise of &quot;no new deals&quot; as a way of shedding scrutiny over ethical conflicts of interest between his job as President of the United States and his position as owner of a world-wide business empire.<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR: business doesn&#39;t work that way, nor do investments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/12\/13\/theres-already-a-big-problem-with-trumps-no-new-deals-pledge\/?utm_term=.c4292116fc17'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-35zLSLhdiquGRjOXUMP_CkBDr91liQLa8gv_JSGd5A-j7eO6YXgBCmt4rxORA18NUkJ7uKaWjpZT6OqqfHsCyr18X-mL_hqDdpC3qlnhvqpgNyUjNN5eOZu6k4sIcrH-oxJISjqVb3MVfBGinSlX4TQgODZj6I440oWuRbjjYyfbb07jI3wlkxWmhxhKx1tZbvdmogunIqJlugl=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/12\/13\/theres-already-a-big-problem-with-trumps-no-new-deals-pledge\/?utm_term=.c4292116fc17'>There&rsquo;s already a big problem with Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;no new deals&rdquo; pledge<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTrump pledged his business would seal &#8220;no new deals&#8221; during his presidency. But the company&#8217;s many long-standing deals could still help funnel undue money or influence.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/C9FdTHVFDS2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a more in-depth look at the problems with Trump&#39;s tweeted promise of &quot;no new deals&quot; as a way of shedding scrutiny over ethical conflicts of interest between his job as President of the United States and his position as owner of a world-wide business empire. TL;DR: business doesn&#39;t work that way, nor do investments. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/read-my-lips-no-new-deals.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Read My Lips. No New Deals.&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,374,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133332,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/how-iceland-deals-with-teen-substance-abuse-successfully.html","url_meta":{"origin":132286,"position":0},"title":"How Iceland deals with teen substance abuse (successfully)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Apr-17 6:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Iceland brought teen drinking and drug use down significantly through providing and encouraging organized youth activities, parents spending quantity time (not scanty quality time) with kids, curfews, alcohol\/tobacco ad and sale restrictions, and frequent surveys, all managed at a national level.(Or, put another way, unsupervised kids out at night with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41879,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/the-supreme-court-deals-another-jab-at-coal.html","url_meta":{"origin":132286,"position":1},"title":"The Supreme Court deals another jab at coal","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Apr-14 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It backed, 6-2, an EPA rule that basically said, \"Hey, your pollution doesn't stop at the state line.\" \u00a0I know, crazy idea, right?Coal-power state reps were ticked off that this will add to the cost of coal-fired energy, because the plants will have to add further scrubbers. 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