WASHINGTON ― Walter Shaub Jr., who announced Thursday that he will resign as director of the Office of Government Ethics, told CBS News that President Donald Trump’s businesses present the “appearance” of profiting from his tenure in the White House. Reporter Julianna Goldman asked Shaub, “Do you think the president and his family are using the office to enrich themselves?”“I can’t know what their intention is,” Shaub answered. “I know that the effect is that there’s an appearance that the businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency. “America should have the right to know what the motivations of its leaders are, and they need to know that financial interests, personal financial interests, aren’t among them,” he said. The clip below is part of a longer interview with Shaub that CBS News will air on Thursday night and Friday morning.

Source: Huffington Post July 06, 2017 17:29 UTC