The Trump Organization on Friday announced that President-elect Donald Trump will not have any involvement in managing his real-estate and branding empire during his second term and appointed an outside ethics adviser to monitor major company actions – part of several measures the organization said it was taking to avoid conflicts of interest as Trump prepares to return to the White House later this month.
The plan bans new deals between the Trump Organization and foreign governments − but not foreign businesses, as had been the case in the first Trump administration. It also outlines a review process for several transactions that meet a certain threshold like purchases over $10 million or leasing more than 40,000 square feet of real estate space.
The next president plans to strip job protections from some 50,000 career federal employees, allowing them to be replaced by handpicked loyalists who would take positions deep within the workings of government.
Trump's company is not agreeing to a blanket stop on new foreign business transactions.
The most coveted events are the three official inaugural balls on Monday that Trump himself is scheduled to appear and speak at after taking the oath of office.
Eric Trump, son of Donald and Ivana Trump, is executive vice president of the Trump Organization. He's also a podcast host and former TV personality.
A limited liability company called Trump Endeavor 12 LLC, whose principal is listed Donald Trump Jr., is behind the plan, which includes building 1,498 condo units across four 20-floor towers, estimated to house approximately 4,975 residents.
The coalition is achingly close to achieving a long-held conservative dream — of fashioning a high-low alliance powerful enough to supplant the liberal establishment and remake America. It is a project that might well collapse if one side or the other gets too much of what it wants, and ends up driving the other away.
The crushing defeat of Kamala Harris has left liberal women exhausted and laid bare racial divides in the women's rights movements that will take some time to heal, activists and organizers told Reuters.
In the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s win last November, a national abortion-assistance hotline was being inundated with calls.