Trump children’s roles blur line between transition, company

But doesn’t that exact-same line of argument apply to Trump and his business interests now that he’s president-elect? To talk about this, we are joined by NPR’s Jim Zarroli.

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Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua that while Trump’s son-in-law Kushner does have an outsized influence on the transition process, it remained unknown whether he was randomly firing people. It was a short meeting.

“I just know a lot of the things that people try to attack him with are just not true or overblown or exaggerations”. According to the Post, Trump’s company has been paid “up to $10 million” since 2014 for the right to put the Trump name atop a luxury apartment complex in Istanbul. The very private real estate mogul finally spoke out for a cover story in the latest issue of Forbes.

Obama also said he advised President-elect Trump to make sure he had a strong counsel’s office to avoid ethical controversies. It really represents a conflict.

President Barack Obama was asked about potential Trump conflicts-of-interest during a press conference in Peru, at the APEC summit. At least 111 Trump companies have done business in 18 countries and territories across South America, Asia and the Middle East, a Washington Post analysis of Trump financial filings shows.

“Kushner said that when he told Trump he was thinking of marrying Ivanka, Trump responded: “‘You’d better be serious on this”. He continues to hold a government lease for his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., even though the lease declares that it can not be held by a government official.

The declaration that he now has global properties comes after promising that he would separate himself from his Trump Organization and hand the company off to his adult children Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump in a so-called blind trust.

Kushner and his team took a fast-moving, trial-and-error approach to spending in states, reflecting the Trump campaign’s famously lean spending strategy throughout the campaign.

A group of ethics advisers, including former chief White House ethics lawyers during Democratic and Republican administrations, wrote Trump a letter Thursday urging him to sequester his business in a genuine blind trust or commit to a “clear firewall” between his Oval Office and his family. The emoluments clause, often invoked as the reason Trump must sell his businesses, is no bar.

Trump has suggested that he will let his adult children run the family businesses during his presidency, and there is nothing in the US Constitution that prevents this arrangement.

At various points along the campaign trail, the president-elect said his business would be controlled by his children in what he said was a “blind trust”, even though that constitutes an independent manager, not someone as closely tied to Trump as his children.

Rumors circulated on Monday, for instance, that during a congratulatory phone call between Trump and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, the topic briefly turned to the construction of an office building in Buenos Aires-a Trump business project reportedly held up by permitting requirements.

So when Donald Trump‘s grown kids go out asking for things, they will have a kind of access and a kind of clout that they wouldn’t otherwise have.

It is our duty to demand ethical integrity from our presidents, and Donald Trump can not be allowed to make himself an exception.

On Tuesday morning, a new poll from CNN and its polling partner ORC indicated that members of the media weren’t the only ones concerned about potential conflicts of interest.

ZARROLI: Well, you know, they say there won’t be a problem. Us Weekly Video reveals six things to know about the 35-year-old businessman in the video above.

One of the Indians with whom Trump met – Atul Chordia – appears as a director of an offshore company created or managed by Mossack Fonseca, the controversial Panamanian law firm that earlier this year was subject to the largest-ever leak of information about secretive shell companies. “But the president and the vice president, despite being executive branch employees, are exempt”. Donald Trump Jr. added, “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russian Federation”.

MCEVERS: That’s NPR’s Jim Zarroli.