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Trump Has Revealed Assumptions About Handling Presidential Wealth, Businesses

Trump has continued to own a business empire while serving as president. That has revealed that expectations about handling presidential wealth, businesses and brands was about norms not laws.
Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States on January 20, 2017, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Before Donald Trump took the oath of office one year ago, the presidency was widely seen as an all-consuming, full-time job.

But since Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2017, to his hundreds of businesses. He has continued to promote his Trump-branded properties, spending dining at his own restaurants, golfing at his own courses and sleeping at his own luxury hotels and

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