Trump holdings form ‘tangled web’ of potential conflicts

President-elect Donald Trump isn’t putting together a team of rivals; he is interviewing an ensemble cast of characters – reaching across the aisle, into the business world and all the way to Hollywood as he puts together his administration.

Mr. Trump, who has bashed the news media as much as it has bashed him, met with top executives and anchors from all the major news networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.

Those business interests have ranged from beverage sales in Israel to golf course developments in the UAE.

According to Trump, doing so will create “many millions of high paying jobs”. The Trump Organization has created multiple companies to individually handle each of these deals. Rather, it’s a way to use the presidency for the Trump family’s further enrichment. Trump also runs the risk of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which states that elected leaders can not “accept of any present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” without permission from Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump unveiled plans Monday for his first 100 days in office, including proposals related to immigration, trade deals and defense policy, using a video published online to briefly outline his proposals.

Up to now, Trump has revealed those he has in mind for the positions of chief of staff, Central Intelligence Agency director and attorney general, but some key positions are still up in the air, such as the secretaries of State, Defense and the Treasury.

That meeting, according to reports, also resulted in an exchange of gifts including a gift to Trump of a gold driver made by a company called Honma with an estimated value of around $4,000.

Last week, even as he interviewed potential cabinet members for his administration, Trump met at his Trump Tower in NY with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded luxury apartment complex near Mumbai. He blamed the media for raising questions about them.

Earlier in the day, Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, told reporters she is “very confident” that since the election, Trump has not broken any laws with his business practices. She said: “Not everyone who consults with the president-elect or meets with him is going to be in his Cabinet”. Trump’s hires at the NLRB will likely be colored by his ownership of properties with unionizing workers.

But the filings, the most comprehensive public documents of Trump’s business empire, largely lack details for numerous companies’ status or ambitions. But that’s not ideal by any means. You know, they think his election is going to be good for their business. “You typically can not simply transfer existing assets into a blind trust“, Kiernan told Forbes. “You have to dispose of the assets first through an initial public offering or some other plan”. “However, if the two nations became entangled in friction, and even in confrontations, it will be a disaster to the two countries and the world”.

The declaration that he now has global properties comes after promising that he would separate himself from his Trump Organization and hand the company off to his adult children Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump in a so-called blind trust. The independent labor regulatory agency ruled on November 3 that Trump’s Las Vegas hotel had violated its workers rights to organize a union when it refused to recognize their affirmative vote.

Rumors circulated on Monday, for instance, that during a congratulatory phone call between Trump and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, the topic briefly turned to the construction of an office building in Buenos Aires-a Trump business project reportedly held up by permitting requirements.