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2016 Postmortem

Exilednight

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6. Legal? Maybe. Ethical? No.

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:14 PM

Jan 2017

There is no law that requires the president to remove himself from businesses they own. Sime contracts within the business divestments may say otherwise.

With that being said, there are probably other laws that could be enforced to work around the issue.

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Donald Trump Wont Divest From His Business Interests, Is this legal? [View all] UCmeNdc Jan 2017 OP

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