So How Will Trump’s Kids Run His Empire’s ‘Blind Trust’ When They’ve Just Been Appointed to His Transition Team?

‘Massive/Unprecedented Conflict’

Donald Trump has just named three of his adult children, along with his son-in-law, as members of his Presidential Transition Team. Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, will help determine policy and make decisions on Cabinet nominees and top-level appointees. Incoming presidents usually hire about 4000 people.

Trump has refused to release his taxes and has offered only minimal information about his finances. He claims to be worth about $10 billion, and while that figure has been frequently questioned, it’s clear he is a man of great assets around the world.

There is great concern of how the leader of the free world can make the necessary decisions unencumbered by knowing the details of how those decisions will affect their personal finances. For this reason every president in modern times has placed their assets in a blind trust, which means they have no way of knowing what assets they hold, what is bought or sold, and how their governing decisions would affect their finances.

Trump, ignorant of what a blind trust actually means and does, promised he will place his assets in a “blind trust,” headed by his children, who will also manage the day-to-day affairs of his businesses.  

That is not a “blind trust,” not at all.

Worse, now, they will be a part of major policy and hiring decisions. That alone means they cannot possibly manage the so-called “blind trust.”

Trump clearly has zero care about not only perception of conflict of interest, but actual conflict of interest.

This is by definition what he falsely accused Secretary Clinton of doing: wheeling and dealing while in office.

This cannot stand.

Here’s how journalists are responding to this breaking news: