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US President Barack Obama has said that he would withhold criticism of the Trump administration once he’s out of office – even if President-elect Donald Trump tries to dismantle his legacy.

He said Trump’s presidency would probably be far different from his candidacy, and have to accommodate external forces.

Liberal advocacy groups are encouraging Obama to break from tradition, and oppose Trump when needed – and that’s something they believe will be often.

When President-elect Donald Trump announced his nominee for attorney general on Friday, he introduced Sen. But there is hardly any precedent for a person with Trump’s wealth and active business interests serving as leader of the free world. And Trump received a congratulatory phone call from Argentine President Mauricio Macri, with whose father Trump had business dealings in the past.

In 2012, the pattern of opinion was very similar: 56% of Obama voters and 90% of Romney backers wanted to see Obama work with Republicans, who controlled the House at the time. Last week, amid a flurry of meetings with domestic and global dignitaries, the billionaire mogul also sat down with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded apartment complex near Mumbai.

It is our duty to demand ethical integrity from our presidents, and Donald Trump can not be allowed to make himself an exception. “He could sell them, or the independent manager could”.

Trump said consistently during the campaign that if he won, those children would stay in NY and run his business. USA law prohibits foreign governments from making any payments to top government officials as they might if national banks had made loans to Trump businesses.

“Former defense officials said Mattis’s views on Iran caused him to fall out of favor with the Obama administration, which was negotiating the Iranian nuclear deal at the time”.

Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the Washington-based Common Cause government ethics watchdog, said, “I think it will dog every week of his presidency if he doesn’t do anything about it”.

That meeting in particular is raising questions. Even if the incoming president is a Republican, the media will adopt a generally polite “wait and see” attitude during the transition. Trump has business entanglements and properties in the United States and all over the world. “That is more desirable than trying to change the U.S. Constitution”. “A majority of them are on the coasts, in New York, California, and Washington”.

Without the Electoral College, defenders say, candidates would devote most of their campaigning to the largest states, such as California, New York, Texas and Florida. But he angered some officials there with his campaign call to ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States.

Most government officials must follow strict conflict-of-interest regulations created to block public servants from making decisions in their own private interest.

Nearly three quarters (73%) of all voters – including 55% of his own supporters and fully 90% of Clinton’s – say that Donald Trump should try as best he can to work with Democratic leaders in Washington to accomplish things, even if it means disappointing some groups of Republican supporters.

A visit to a deli or a convenience store, or just a step outside on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to take in the crisp fall air and greet people – the kinds of routine photo opportunities that Trump the candidate did to show he was in touch with everyday Americans? His current approach – to let his children manage his financial interests while he is president – won’t work anymore than for Clinton to have let her husband and daughter run the Clinton Foundation while she was president, if she had been chosen.