Q&A: How Trump says he’ll break from his business
NEW YORK — Donald Trump says he is leaving his famed business behind.
Well, sort of.
That is the muddled message from the president-elect’s news conference Wednesday about plans to separate himself from his business while in office to avoid conflicts of interest.
Trump and his lawyer portrayed his moves as extraordinary. Ethics lawyers who’ve worked with previous presidents in both parties had other opinions: uninspiring, inadequate.