Trump Collecting Money from Foreign Governments Amounts to ‘Foreign Policy for Sale’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A United Arab Emirates (UAE) government-backed firm has announced that it will be making a $2 billion business deal using Donald Trump’s meme coin, which will financially benefit the Trump family. The announcement was made on a panel that included president Trump’s son Eric Trump.
In response to the news, Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:
“Never before in American history have foreign governments, as well as people and corporations under investigation, so overtly and directly funneled vast sums to the president of the United States and his family. This is far more than is captured by the term “conflict of interest.” It is foreign policy for sale and justice for sale. And, as one of the executives in the deal said, ‘it is only the beginning.’
“With a president who has no regard for the basic norms of propriety, ethics, the law or the U.S. Constitution, the question is: Will the U.S. Congress permit this mockery of the American people? Or will it insist on the most minimal baseline standards, so that foreign governments cannot send money directly to the president and his family?”