The Trump Organization is moving into the White House
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Donald Trump Meets With His Indian Business Partners Despite Blind Trust Promises | The Huffington Post
Two days later, the president-elect met with Japan?s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York City, his first visit from a foreign leader. Ivanka Trump, executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, was also in attendance. She is supposed to be running the Trump Organization separate from her father?s administration to avoid any potential conflicts of interest or their appearance. The Trump family appears to be struggling mightily to avoid these conflicts.
?It looks to us that he?s clearly not able to maintain a blind trust and still keep the company under his ownership and, frankly, control,? said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. ?We really think that the best thing he can do is sell the company outside of the family and place the money from the sale into an actual blind trust. ...?
...The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Further evidence that it could be impossible for the president-elect to disconnect himself from his foreign businesses comes from a key diplomatic appointment that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made days before Trump?s election victory. Duterte announced that Jose E.B. Antonio would be the country?s envoy to Washington, D.C., for trade and investment. Antonio, chairman of Century Properties Group, is Trump?s business partner in the Philippines. His business is currently building the 57-story Trump Tower at Century City in the capital Manila.
For countries and foreign leaders more used to a corrupt government environment, there will be numerous opportunities to curry favor with the incoming president through his businesses.
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Fat chance of that ever happening.
So, you[s] thought the government would be better run by a corrupt businessman than by a corrupt politician?
The libby press is going to hound this asshat until his 'roids bleed out
In all fairness, Trump is not inaugurated yet. He has a couple of months to put his affairs in order -- to preclude conflicts of interest but his "family trust' is a sham just like Trump U was. But unlike Trump U criminal insider "trade" is a federal felony and an impeachable crime -- are you ready for President Pence
