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BuyIvanka'sStuffGate "reveals fiction of any separation president maintains from Trump Organization"
Here’s Why The Ivanka Trump Nordstrom Scandal Is A Really Big Deal
WASHINGTON ― Before taking the oath of office as president of the United States, Donald Trump swept aside concerns about conflicts of interest arising from his family business with a clear assertion: “The president can’t have a conflict of interest.”
Although the recent spat between Ivanka Trump and Nordstrom department store is minor in scope, it has prompted, at the very least, a question of whether White House adviser Kellyanne Conway broke ethics laws by urging people to buy the president’s daughter’s branded products.
It also shows that the president is incapable of emotionally disconnecting himself from his family’s brand-driven financial interests ― and that this incapacity has trickled down to his staff. It reveals the fiction of any separation the president maintains from his Trump Organization while it is headed by his adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump.
Further, members of the president’s staff appear to believe that it is their jobs, as paid representatives of the president, to defend his personal and his family’s private business interests rather than the interests of the American people. There appears to be no conception in the White House that the family business is separate from the business of government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-conflict-nordstrom-ivanka_us_589e2015e4b03df370d64b0a?7399byul7skuxiggb9&
WASHINGTON ― Before taking the oath of office as president of the United States, Donald Trump swept aside concerns about conflicts of interest arising from his family business with a clear assertion: “The president can’t have a conflict of interest.”
Although the recent spat between Ivanka Trump and Nordstrom department store is minor in scope, it has prompted, at the very least, a question of whether White House adviser Kellyanne Conway broke ethics laws by urging people to buy the president’s daughter’s branded products.
It also shows that the president is incapable of emotionally disconnecting himself from his family’s brand-driven financial interests ― and that this incapacity has trickled down to his staff. It reveals the fiction of any separation the president maintains from his Trump Organization while it is headed by his adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump.
Further, members of the president’s staff appear to believe that it is their jobs, as paid representatives of the president, to defend his personal and his family’s private business interests rather than the interests of the American people. There appears to be no conception in the White House that the family business is separate from the business of government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-conflict-nordstrom-ivanka_us_589e2015e4b03df370d64b0a?7399byul7skuxiggb9&
