Your Day-one Guide To President Trump’s Conflicts Of Interest

Russ Choma and Andy Kroll, Mother Jones
Fri, 01/20/2017 - 6:32am

Donald Trump takes office today as the most conflicted and ethically problematic president in the nation's history. He refuses to divest from his global business holdings. His company continues to make foreign deals even after he promised to halt them. He owes hundreds of millions of dollars to domestic and overseas banks and other financial institutions.

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