It's the latest in a long red line of red lines.

But, but, they're been blasted. Didn't you see in the article? Surely, they'll stop this behaviour this time.

....that's even worse somehow

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

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

bc of a phone

I'm not even disagreeing with you, but listen to yourself.

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

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

I've got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you'd be fine with that

I'm no fan of trump, but this isn't an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful

Your "feelings" are deeply flawed. You know nothing about me.

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

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

Blasted is nothing, wake me up when they get slammed.

39.5ft

Nice Grinch reference.

All his family coins are 95% down. The worse problem is that their coins were designed from the start with the sole purpose to draw donations indirectly to Trump ( and for favors in return? as the case was with Justin Sun, who is the #1 Trump coin holder, and he previously donated a million to trump to pardon him from his fraud case. )

Both of the Trump and Malenia coin whitepapers, fee percentages, premined allocations and locked durations...etc everything shows clear as day that it's a grift to the Trump family and that all coin revenues go to them that it's impossible for the coin to gain any value.

That's not my opinion. Those are the facts that everyone has reported on already.

Let's put it this way.

Pretend I'm some semi-adversarial nation, like Saudi Arabia. I want trump to let off some sanctions, or tariffs, or in general give me preferential treatment compared to other nations. I want to give trump a big sum of money to do this, just writing him a check would be obvious corruption. So instead, I just book whole floors of his hotels during off-peak hours, and at a premium pricing. I don't even bother having anyone stay in the rooms, so trump can even book those rooms again for additional money. I just "legitimately" sent trump a bunch of money, and now he is paying it forward by stopping investigations into my goons sawing journalists into tiny pieces.

If this sounds to far-fetched for you, keep in mind that it literally happened.

Documents show big foreign gov't spending at Trump hotel

The Trump hotel in Washington took in more than $750,000 from six foreign governments at sensitive moments in their U.S. relations, with guests spending as much as $10,000 per room a night.

AP News (apnews.com)

This phone company trump has made really only exists as a bit of paper and some software. It has no infrastructure, no brick and mortar store fronts, nor any assets. It's mostly an agreement with a large carriers to lease time on their networks, charged per usage amount. For this scenario, let's pretend I'm Vladimir Putin trying to pay trump for leaving Ukraine high and dry. I simply put in orders for Trump's phone service, and then never even use the phones. Hell, a physical phone is probably never sent. On paper, it looks like 100,000 people signed up for the service, but they never use any of the lines, so trump collects nearly 100% of the money, with just a little bit lost to keep a small server up to handle transactions and accounts.

If none of this makes sense to you as an obvious vector for trump to receive money from foreign agents, then I'd guess that you're the kind of person who thinks that the mob ran legitimate protection services.

Ow it was clear to me it was a Grift, it's his only modus operandi.

Thanks for the detailed write up, very insightful!

Jimmy Carter gave up his tiny peanut farm.

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