Conflicts of interest and President-elect Trump

More significant may be Trump’s continued insistence that as president he will not be barred from continuing his involvement in his vast real-estate business while essentially turning its operations over to three of his children, daughter Ivanka and sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner. Obama’s greatest achievement and legacy will be President Trump.

At least he did in Tuesday’s hour long interview with the New York Times. Of Hillary Clinton, for whom his campaign prescription had been a special prosecutor and imprisonment, he said, “She went through a lot”. That’s a tiny fraction of the statewide vote, the closest in the state’s presidential history.

The newspaper was one of Trump’s prime targets for ridicule and attack during his campaign rallies.

Trump now: “I want to move forward, I don’t want to move back”. Trump also introduced his old pal Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of NY, as a potential secretary of state.

The rising Republican star was among Trump’s most vocal and damning critics.

Now, Schweizer did offer some ideas as to how Trump can mitigate the appearance of inappropriate relations.

Finally, to the extent he wishes to seek advice about public policy from his children – which he appears to have done frequently before his election – the president can consult the White House counsel’s office about whether discussing a particular issue with them would create potential conflicts of interest. But for moderate Republicans and Democratic business leaders, like a Bill Gates, who can gain his ear and respect, and who have made big investments in clean energy, Trump may be – em may be/em – persuadable on some key issues.

Until members of the media come clean about colluding with the Clinton campaign and admit that they knowingly broke every ethical standard that they’re supposed to stand and uphold, they should not have the privilege and responsibility of covering the president on behalf of you, the American people.

The Times’ coverage of the confab spoke of “hope” and “signs of moderation”. “But I would like to do something”, he said.

Trump then: In a March interview with the Washington Post’s editorial board, he said, “I think there’s a change in weather”.

We know what’s going on here: Trump took inflammatory positions during the campaign, which appealed to people’s basest instincts and fears, because he thought they would help him get elected.

And in these cases, we agree with the president-elect’s change of heart. MI went to the Democratic candidate five times out of the last five presidential elections, according to election tracking website 270 to win. “I’m going to be studying that very hard”, he said.

Some therapists speak of “radical acceptance”. All of us experience these emotions, in varying degrees at various times.

These are encouraging changes even if they are broken promises. Attempting to deny that something has happened, or to find some exemption from the consequences, only prolongs the worst phase of the struggle.

While many of this consuming class don’t understand why so many Americans would vote for the highly flawed and controversial Trump, so numerous producing class don’t understand why the Democratic Party wants to keep growing government and keep adding rules to their work. Trump expressed surprising acceptance of positions that, just weeks ago, he’d loved to denounce and even ridicule. 67% of Asian Americans are immigrants born outside of the United States, many of whom are first-time voters with limited English proficiency.

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