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How can he be a business owner AND a politician? That's a clear conflict of interest.
Because voters trust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/this-governor-still-guides-his-billion-dollar-business-empire-even-though-he-said-he-wouldnt
The real question is why do they trust him?
they don't - it's not about trust, it's just spitefully gravitating to whatever "makes liberal heads explode".
They probably trust him because their livelihoods are tied to coal, the same as him. He probably makes bold statements about keeping coal flowing and jobs going.
I'll give you one guess at which party he's a member of and how little they care about conflicts of interest.
Hint: It's the party currently directly violating our Constitution by allowing the president to blatantly violate the Emoluments Clause.
Reminder: They are only able to do this because voters keep giving them power, despiteconstantly providing us reasons why we shouldn't.
That and non voters refuse to do anything to curb this too.
Because we can trust them to run the country like a business: straight into the ground.
bad people made the wrong moral choice voluntarily to give him power