NEW YORK – President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will step away from his businesses to give all his energy to being President.
“I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! While I am not mandated to do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!”
Many of Trump’s enemies have speculated that conflicts of interest would doom Trump’s presidency. Whether these legal documents are enough to quiet the critics remains to be seen, and to what extent his children will stay in the businesses, perhaps complicating matters.