Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'

toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Pirate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

  So, standard capitalism stuff?

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Kind of, except the person doing it is the sitting president. Call it an aggravating factor.

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• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Using their position of political power to advertise a business which directly benefits them. It is plainly not part of the duties of the office. Same reason good presidents put their financial affairs in a blind trust for the duration of of their term.

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For giggles, I’d like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?

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    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      he’s just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.

      your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn’t an overreach of power in any way

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Besides the naked corruption?

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    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn’t, then this isn’t

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

        He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How is this a real question? We’re fucking cooked.

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    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      bc of a phone 🤦

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Jimmy Carter gave up his tiny peanut farm.

        Yet people nowadays are just incapable of understanding the concept of conflict of interest?

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