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Figarosmom

(9,744 posts)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 02:19 AM Aug 2025

Company advised by Trump sons said it hoped to benefit from fed money, then took it back

NEW YORK (AP) — A public document filed by a company that just hired President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons as advisers included a sentence early Monday that said it hoped to benefit from grants and other incentives from the federal government, which their father happens to lead.

But when The Associated Press asked the Trump family business about the apparent conflict of interest, the document was revised and the line taken out.

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Company advised by Trump sons said it hoped to benefit from fed money, then took it back (Original Post) Figarosmom Aug 2025 OP
Blame it on the "scriveners!" 🤣🤣🤣 Tanuki Aug 2025 #1
No, Paul Hastings, that wasn't a scrivener typo. SunSeeker Aug 2025 #2
Of course....nt Figarosmom Aug 2025 #3
C'mon! Be reasonable! You can't expect that the sons of the president wold understand what conflict Wonder Why Aug 2025 #4

Tanuki

(16,296 posts)
1. Blame it on the "scriveners!" 🤣🤣🤣
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:29 AM
Aug 2025

"... The Trump Organization didn’t reply to a question about whether New America still planned to benefit from government programs or why the line was cut. But the outside law firm Paul Hastings that helped prepare the document sent an email to AP saying it was “mistake” made by “scriveners,” an old term for transcribers of legal papers....."

Wonder Why

(6,552 posts)
4. C'mon! Be reasonable! You can't expect that the sons of the president wold understand what conflict
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:25 PM
Aug 2025

of interest is.

I mean, they're just children. How would they know? They were never told about right and wrong from their parents. If that isn't obvious.

Poor little kiddies.

They need to join their father in Alligator Alcatraz. Hopefully, the alligators can stomach them (pun intended). I surely can't.

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