Time is running out for Donald Trump to get away from his entangling business interests, and he finally signaled Wednesday morning he’ll try to avoid his administration being mired in endless scandal.
Turning to his preferred medium for making news, the president-elect on Twitter said legal documents “are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations.”
“The Presidency is a far more important task!” he said, adding plans to hold a formal news conference on Dec. 15 with his children in New York to discuss the new arrangement.
Exactly what strategy Trump will deploy to end his business conflicts is unclear. But what he isn’t lacking for are options to put at least some of his unprecedented ethical challenges to rest.
As Trump and his top aides pick Cabinet nominees and map out their early first-term agenda, they’ve also been urged to consider a range of piecemeal solutions that prominent lawyers, financial advisers and even major news organizations say will let the president-elect hold on to parts of his previous life’s work while insulating himself from his most problematic holdings, especially overseas.
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