"Still, Trump isn’t legally bound to divest himself from his businesses. It’s against the law to use public office for personal financial gain, but the president and vice president are exempt from the web of conflict-of-interest laws and regulations requiring executive-branch officials to recuse themselves on certain issues and divest from certain holdings — an exemption based on the idea that the president deals with so many policies that conflicts are bound to arise. And while the executive branch is guided by the Office of Government Ethics, Trump will appoint its director.
Previous wealthy presidents — from John F. Kennedy to the Bush family — placed their assets in a blind trust. But their wealth mostly came from domestic sources, and, in the case of the younger Bush, JFK and FDR, was largely inherited, making it easier for the president to distance himself from assets that were already tied up in trusts."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-business-ties-231269
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