I completely understand the concept of his resorts being used to purchase influence. Not arguing that is a possibility. I am more intrigued by the idea we expect whomever becomes president to give up any and all businesses they have worked their lives to build. Truly having nothing to do with the company or having any chance of returning to the company in the future is the only way to eliminate influence. It almost sets it up that no one who is an extremely successful business owner would even want to be president. Lawyers on the other hand can just return to practice afterwards.
That is a valid point, but it also brings up the conflict of interest in general, regardless of the business, in of the time. Basically, being prez if/should be a full time job. If one is spending time, even if genuinely on just their business, doing things that isn't being the president, you are distracting yourself from the job you were elected to do. So we have to decide, or w/e, what we as a country wants. Not sure if there is a right answer, just some are better than others. It's like any job, I have to sign off when I became and engineer to my company that I would not work in a business that conflicts with my time with them. Becoming president should be the ultimate expression of that and should supersede that.
I think the bigger point is more he's just free dealing going down there practically every weekend, and getting benefits from it both ways. It's a weird thing for a guy who lambasted his predecessor on, and got voted on for being man of the people, is basically then turning around and doubling down on trips, and getting all of it paid for by said people. W/e, prolly some alpha move everyone loves and no one cares that he's doing it.
FTR, I think most of the vacation time bitch talk is over done, on both sides. But it's been getting out of hand now.
