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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on November 13, 2016, 08:12:47 pm
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Giuliani: No reason to put Trump's children 'out of work'
By Louis Nelson
11/13/16 12:51 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump is “in a very unusual situation” when it comes to his considerable assets, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday, because putting control of his businesses into a true blind trust “would basically put his children out of work.”
Trump has previously said that he would cede control of the Trump Organization to his three eldest children, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., if he were elected president. But such an arrangement would do little to assuage concerns regarding a conflict of interest and would leave him open to speculation that decisions he makes in the White House were made not to benefit the country but his own financial situation.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rudy-giuliani-trump-blind-trust-231296
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“It would seem to me that if he set up a situation in which the children were running it, there was a legal or clear document that meant that he would not be involved, he would have no interest in it, he would have no input into it, he would just have a passive interest, that would be the kind of thing that would work here,” the close Trump adviser said.
“It's kind of unrealistic to say, you're going to take the business away from the three people who are running it, and give it to some independent person.
Wasn't there screaming about the Clinton Foundation and potential conflicts if Hillary were president?
And now, Guiliani is crying that a bunch of trust-fund children might be "out of work" because their father never thought he'd actually win the presidency.