The following article by Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold was posted on the Washington Post website February 6, 2018:
Note: This is intended to be a living Q&A. We’ll update it as news breaks and as The Washington Post turns up more details about the ethical questions related to President Trump’s businesses.
1. President Trump still owns his company while he is president. Is that illegal?
Not by itself.
By law, the president is exempt from the ethics statutes for federal workers, which prohibit them from taking action on issues where they have a personal financial stake in the decision.
The logic was that a president can’t recuse himself or herself from any given issue: There’s only one president. If a president steps over a major ethical line, the remedy would be the impeachment process. Continue reading “10 key questions about the ethical issues surrounding President Trump’s company”