Did Trump's Financial Ties Influence the Immigration Order?
The evidence points to no, but the fact that it’s even a question demonstrates why his conflicts of interest are a problem.
Rarely has a president drawn as much over an action in his first month in office as President Donald Trump did with from several countries in the Middle East and shutting down the Syrian-refugee program. Among the many sources of this consternation was confusion over how Trump and his advisers had determined the list of countries to which the ban would apply: Though putatively intended to prevent future terrorist attacks on American soil, by an immigrant from any of the seven countries included in the ban (Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen). Especially confounding is the administration’s to justify the policy, which does not apply to from which the hijackers originated.
