Experts Find Holes In Trump's Firewall Against Conflicts

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February 8, 201711:47 AM ET
PETER OVERBY

Ever since Donald Trump was elected president in November, questions have been raised about the lease he signed to operate a luxury hotel in the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The lease specifically says the lease holder cannot be a federal elected official. So critics repeatedly have called upon the federal General Services Administration to enforce its agreement, and make President Trump walk away from his deal to run the Trump International Hotel.

But Trump appears to have come up with his own way of trying to solve the lease problem: He has created a revocable trust — and parked his vast business interests in it.

The purpose of the trust is to create a firewall against conflict-of-interest allegations and to, in effect, remove himself from direct management of his businesses, such as the D.C. hotel. Documents now show that the president's son, Donald J. Trump Jr., is the new president of the company operating the D.C. hotel ...

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/08/513904816/ethics-experts-find-holes-in-trumps-firewall-against-conflicts

[Squinch]

1. I find myself hoping that Uday and Qusay will fulfill their destiny and run the whole shebang into

bankruptcy.

[tanyev]

2. You don't need an expert to find holes in the firewall

when the official POTUS Twitter account is used to send a tweet complaining about a retail store dropping pwecious Ivanka's clothing line.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Holes? It's a flimsy wall with a great big beautiful door in it. nt