Trump finally announced his plan to avoid business conflicts. Its a sham. - Vox.com

[Bill USA]

http://www.vox.com/2017/1/11/14238556/trump-press-conference-conflicts-interest

Donald Trump held his first press conference Wednesday to directly answer the question of what he plans to do to inoculate himself from his many conflicts of interest. His answer: pretty much nothing.

Trump’s plan, as his lawyer Sheri Dillon outlined, is to put his businesses in a trust managed by his two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr., and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.

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Trump hasn’t addressed how he will tackle domestic conflicts of interest in policymaking. He will oversee lenders who have lent money to him, appoint members to a labor relations board who rule on disputes at his properties, and hire the next head of the Government Services Agency, which rents him his DC hotel.

On the foreign policy front, Trump claims he’ll donate foreign profits from his hotels to the Treasury. But he’d still be profiting, even if he gets rid of the proceeds. (He still earned the money; he’s just using it in in an altruistic way.) Trump could also make money off other foreign business deals. All of this, ethics lawyers argue, would violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

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[northoftheborder]

1. And how will we know it has really been donated to the treasury?

[riversedge]

2. You will read it on his tax returns.

OINK

[northoftheborder]

3. Of Couuuuurrrrse!

[Bill USA]

4. Riiiiiiiiiighhht!! LOL!

[Igel]

5. Tax returns, not public documents.

Donations to the Treasury, public.