Trump’s tangled businesses pose potential for conflicts

But, at Donald Trump’s urging, Kushner is now considering taking a role in the White House, the Times reported, basing its report on “two people briefed on the conversations who requested anonymity”.

Presidential politics as a family affair is nothing new in America, says Sam Abrams, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence College in NY. So much for the “populist” message Trump expounded since the beginning of the worst political campaign in American history!

Once Trump is in the White House, there are options for getting Kushner a clearance in order to be an adviser. Hi, welcome to the show. According to The Guardian, they include shares in the energy company behind the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline, which Obama has slowed but Trump has pledged to expedite, and Bank of America, which stands to gain from Trump’s proposed rollback of new federal regulations on big banks. He took on Charles Kushner, then a prominent donor to Democrats and the owner of tens of thousands of apartment units in the state.

“It’s incredible. I mean, there are conflicts at every turn”. This indicates just how integral a part of the Trump transition team he actually is.

“I’m never suggesting that that’s something that he would do”, says Lipton, “but if something like that happens you want to be able to see it and know that it’s irrelevant, and the trouble is we don’t have that kind of visibility into all of his debts and assets to know that properly”.

While it is not clear what role he will ultimately play in the Trump administration, Mr Trump is reported to have expressed a desire for his son-in-law to join his staff. Reports say Mr Kushner is seeking legal advice on that possibility because there are anti-nepotism rules that prevent close relatives of the president from playing an active role in government. What’s going on there? Christie, as a U.S. Attorney, prosecuted Kushner’s father for tax evasion and campaign finance violation. We must prove that those eight years he spent in the oval office were not wasted. And there is a notion that what Jared was doing when he ousted Chris Christie from the transition team was he was sort of avenging his father.

Kushner, who married Trump’s daughter Ivanka in 2009, came onboard the Trump campaign just after the Iowa caucuses in February and played a key role in turning what was a small, undisciplined operation into a successful presidential campaign.

But a spokesperson for Blair told Newsweek that any claim Blair is angling for a role with Trump “is nonsense and completely overblown”. What are your sources telling you about that?

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From tower blocks to golf courses, Donald Trump has built a global business empire like no other US president. But Jared is so quiet, and he’s so uninterested in courting press attention.

Although Trump would not be the first president to fall under the current exemption, Clark argued that the scale of his business holdings, as well as the lack of transparency surrounding them, underscores the importance of weeding out actual or perceived conflicts of interest.

MCEVERS: Sarah Ellison is a writer at Vanity Fair.