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Why Trump's Conflicts of Interest Matter

Even if he thinks they don’t
Source: Steve Helber / AP

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he’s closing his foundation, but that doesn’t put an end to the tangle of potential conflicts of he will drag with him into the oval office. To name just a few examples, Trump that awaits foreign-worker visas—documents doled out by a department he will soon oversee. He is currently trying to build a Trump-branded office building in Buenos Aires, something the journalist Jorge Lanata said Trump discussed with Argentine president Mauricio Macri during his first phone call with him as president-elect. (Both Macri and Trump this discussion.) Trump even in late November that his “brand is certainly a hotter brand than it was before.”

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