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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump reverses position, now actually will be involved in Trump Organization
Just making it official...
Trump will continue to get financial reports on the Trump Organization
President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump will provide his father with financial reports regarding Trump Organization, according to a report from Forbes.
"Yeah, on the bottom line, profitability reports and stuff like that, but you know, that's about it," Eric Trump said despite previously echoing his father's sentiments that he will not be involved in the business during his presidency.
The younger Trump said he would issue these reports "probably quarterly," according to Forbes.
Ethics experts were concerned by this change, with Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush saying, "It just means that a lot of what they say is malarkey because the president isn't distancing himself from the business... But at the end of the day, he owns the business. He has the conflicts that come with it."
Link: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/trump-actually-will-be-involved-in-trump-organization.html
President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump will provide his father with financial reports regarding Trump Organization, according to a report from Forbes.
"Yeah, on the bottom line, profitability reports and stuff like that, but you know, that's about it," Eric Trump said despite previously echoing his father's sentiments that he will not be involved in the business during his presidency.
The younger Trump said he would issue these reports "probably quarterly," according to Forbes.
Ethics experts were concerned by this change, with Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush saying, "It just means that a lot of what they say is malarkey because the president isn't distancing himself from the business... But at the end of the day, he owns the business. He has the conflicts that come with it."
Link: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/trump-actually-will-be-involved-in-trump-organization.html
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Trump reverses position, now actually will be involved in Trump Organization (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2017
OP
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)1. This must be stopped.
unblock
(51,974 posts)2. so he'll get just enough info to know which presidential actions are profitable. got it.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)3. Makes Jimmy Carter's peanut farm and Clinton's charity
quaint by comparison.