> Is that how good business people operate? "We did a transaction once, therefore I will favor you and give you free consideration for no other reason" Suppose

> Is that how good business people operate? "We did a transaction once, therefore I will favor you and give you free consideration for no other reason" Suppose a person works in real estate their entire life, and then runs for political office but still maintains their real estate business. Is it not reasonable to assume, absent evidence to the contrary, that they have incentives to benefit the real estate industry and in particular their own business, over that of others? Why would they stop acting in a way that maximizes their own personal profit? Would we not assume the same for really any professional background? If Mark Zuckerburg runs for President and wins, would we not assume that he would favor policies that benefit Facebook to the detriment of their competitors, simply because he has a strong financial incentive to do so? Indeed, would you be comfortable with a President Zuckerberg who remained in complete control of Facebook while in office? Why then is it weird to be concerned that Trump has not distanced himself from his business interests? Trump has done thousands of deals, but those deals only benefited him and his counter parties. Those deals were not done for the benefit of the American public at large. That's fine for Trump the private citizen, but not Trump the President. I reasonably expect that all dealings that a President has while in office are exclusively on behalf of and for the benefit of the American people. If he were a banker, or wall street financier of any other type, wouldn't the same conflict of interest exist? Do you really not think this is a cause for concern? The default assumption should be that a person is prone to corruption. That is the safe assumption for anyone granted power, and is the assumption of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution. We should not give the benefit of the doubt to any leader. That is far too dangerous and runs contrary to the spirit of Democracy. If you want to believe a leader is a saint above reproach that is the realm of Authoritarianism, not Democracy.