> quite a few experts think he'll be in violation of that oath the minute he takes it.
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Quite a few experts thought that HRC couldn't lose the election.
If we haven't learned anything else, it should be that there are no experts in politics.


>Are you not at all troubled by the fact that the children who he's supposed to be turning the business over to are also on the transition team, helping to select government officials? Ivanka sitting in on a meeting with the Japanese prime minister at the same time that she's negotiating a deal with a Japanese government owned company? They're not even trying to hide the corruption.
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George Washington had large holdings in western PA and what later became Ohio.
One of the principal reasons he took the presidency was to assure that there would be a vigorous military force that would protect those holdings from Indian attacks.


Benjamin Franklin had a printing business that was struggling.
He became secretary of the PA legislature so that his company would get the job of printing the minutes.
He took the job of postmaster to assure that his newspaper would be circulated (the previous postmaster was also a printer and refused to circulate Franklin's paper)

Jefferson had similar conflicts because of his farms and slave holdings.

Before Lincoln, most of the politicians fighting the slavery issue on one side of the other had financial interests at stake.

With the (unfortunate) creation of a professional political class, the notion of the citizen statesman has become a foreign one, so we haven't had to deal with this in modern times.

People elected this man. That implies faith and trust.

He deserves the opportunity to show that he does or doesn't merit that faith and trust.