Everyone Is Vulnerable To Conflicts Of Interest. Including Donald Trump.

Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight: Science & Health
Fri, 01/06/2017 - 4:30am

“The president can’t have a conflict of interest,” Donald Trump told The New York Times in November. He appears to have meant that in the legal sense — the president isn’t bound by the same conflict-of-interest laws that loom over other executive branch officials and employees.But that doesn’t mean the president’s interests can’t be in conflict.

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