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Originally Posted by Rochard
You don't see any conflict in Trump owning stock in the company that makes the very missiles Trump is launching?
What ever. It's your tax dollars paying for Trump's visits to Florida. I wonder how much money Trump is raking in from that.
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Yes I see a conflict and I think his portfolio should be put in a blind trust, but to say the attack was based on pumping up Raytheon stock is just silly. Those missiles were bought and paid for many years ago.
Every military action boosts the stock of military suppliers, it is based on investors speculating.
Trumps total Raytheon Stock was valued at 15 grand in 2016 ~ 1,000 shares, so yeah, I am sure it was all about the grand he stood to make.
And yes I am pissed about the trips, just like I was about Obama's, Bush the Stupid, Slick Willie, Bush the elder, and Ronnie (Before him I didn't pay any taxes cause I was a poor broke high school student).
But not liking something or someone does not affect my ability to look at something objectively and call bullshit what it is. The Raytheon connection is partisan political bullshit to get the non thinking liberals knickers in a knot.
Based on the number of times this has been pushed around, it is working.