Donald Trump's "Blind Trust" Plan Makes No Sense
By Kurt Eichenwald
Newsweek Magazine
September 20, 2016
Like a political Elmer Gantry, Donald Trump goes from city to city, proclaiming that only he can save America, spinning outrageous statements and spewing lies before heading off to his next revival meeting.
Serious questions about his candidacy for the presidency are left unanswered or blurred under a flurry of deceit.
Confronted with the Newsweek cover story detailing numerous potential conflicts of interest between his foreign business dealings and American national security should he be elected, Trump and his children responded with a litany of nonsensical claims.
There would be no conflicts, he said, because he would put his company,
the Trump Organization, in a blind trust.
Then he would sever his connections with the business.
With both answers, though, he and his children would run the company.
Then his daughter, Ivanka Trump, a fashion designer and former model, jumped in with her goofy explanation, saying she and her siblings would figure out how to avoid deals that might cause conflicts of interest for their father.
The onslaught of words for the uninformed, may have sounded persuasive.
Voters could be excused for thinking the Trumps had solved the problem.
They haven't.
Worse, if the Trumps believe what they are saying, there is no question a President Trump would be America's most conflicted chief executive, forcing the United States to confront a problem that would be unprecedented.
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for instance, he'd have *no idea* that doing something that helps manhattan real estate building owners and developers might help himself or his family.
*no idea*.
believe me.
