Donald Trump has announced that he will be “leaving” his business interests “in total” in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest once he becomes president. It’s just a different thing.”Scores of international politicians and business partners flocked to Trump Tower in Manhattan after Trump’s election, many of the meetings raising unprecedented questions about how Trump could fairly work with foreign leaders who might try and curry his favor through business. Shortly after the election, the president-elect met with business partners from India who are building Trump hotels in the country, although he had promised to cede control of his company to his children. “Trump was totally wrong when he said ‘the conflict of interest doesn’t apply to me’,” Norman Eisen, a former ethics counselor to the Obama administration, told the Guardian earlier this week. Priebus told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that Trump has “got the best people in America working on it”.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2016 12:05 UTC