Thread by @AVindman

Re-upping this article, coauthored by @johngansjr, after the latest reporting on Trumps undisclosed bank accounts in China.

“And that’s just the deals we know about: Few people have any real idea of what is being promised in other calls and meetings. We may never know.

https://twitter.com/avindman/status/1311277221479407616

This...inscrutable patchwork of foreign policy is not just inefficient, it risks disastrous mistakes by the United States... It also provides a potential opportunity for the sort of ethical misconduct that worries many about the debts and dealings...

After almost four years of this uncertainty, foreign government representatives simply shortcut the system and look for a White House back channel to figure out if the United States will zig when it’s supposed to zag...

worse, the uncertainty means that Americans themselves cannot know... all the deals being made in their name... Trump will spend the remaining weeks of the campaign talking about some deals and denying others, the true extent of his corruption... will not be known for... years.

As Americans go to the polls, they may not understand what each of Mr. Trump’s deals includes. But they should know how and why he’s making them.
If Mr. Trump manages to stay in the White House, he’ll believe he has a mandate for more of this kind of deal-making.

Re-election will remove the last remaining guardrail against the corruption... and drive anyone who seeks to avert disaster underground or out of government. It’s impossible to predict the damage to America’s interests, power, credibility, relationships and reputation.

But there is one thing to trust: Over four more years, there is little Mr. Trump won’t deal away.”