Literally none of that has any relevance to whether it's a conflict of interest, and whether he should have recused. How do you not see that? How can you poss

Literally none of that has any relevance to whether it's a conflict of interest, and whether he should have recused. How do you not see that? How can you possibly, in good faith, think that "some of these contracts went well and saved money" has any relationship to whether something is a conflict of interest or not. Do you just not understand what a conflict of interest is? Or do you really think conflicts of interest don't exist if "ends justify means" or "they have the best interests of the government at heart" or something really out there like this? If so, this is a pointless discussion, and man you should take a business ethics (or conflicts of interest) class, because you don't really don't seem to understand conflicts at all. Or at the very least read the authoritative source I gave you of what a conflict of interest is for the purposes of federal contracting, that you seem to have completely ignored. The same way you completely ignored that even in your weird world of what a conflict in, in this case, he literally said he would recuse himself, and did not. Which, whether it saves government money, or whatever the heck, is definitely unethical. So overall, based on your response i'd say you are either not having this discussion in good faith, or you are so unequipped to meaningfully participate in this discussion that people are mistaking it for you arguing in bad faith.