Unusual, unethical, possibly illegal—and not out of character for Trump.
from Chinese-owned ByteDance. Now, he’s says he’s fully behind such a deal—as long as his government gets a cut, of course. You know, just a little something for the trouble. “A very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States,” the president“Right now, they don’t have any rights, unless we give it to them,” he continued, likening such a payment to the “key money” a landlord might pay a tenant.
The notion of the president asking for a slice of a private deal, even one the U.S. signs off on, is not just unusual—it’s also, of course, unethical and quite possibly illegal. “That’s not how it works, Mr. President,”MarketWatch. “Of course we aren’t going to get a cut on the deal. It’s just not how it works. The government doesn’t get cuts from a deal.”
And yet, this is hardly out of character for Trump, who has shown tendencies both to micromanage American businesses from the Oval Office and to take a mob boss approach to the presidency. He has repeatedly used his bully pulpit toon corporate affairs and taken an aggressive approach to trade, animated by the same heavy-handed whims that informed his own approach to business.
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