“We urge you to divest your business enterprises into a true blind trust managed by an independent trustee having no family relationship with you, or the equivalent, in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act,” the letter, issued Friday reads.
The Campaign Legal Center also criticized Trump’s plan, set to be presented next Thursday, to shift management of his various businesses to his adult children.
“If taken, this approach will still leave you and your immediate family as the financial beneficiaries of the businesses, with your family managing them and the business enterprises entangled with your presidency,” the letter asserted. “This will not solve the real or apparent conflict of interest problems you face as president.”
Failing to properly divest his businesses could undermine public confidence in decisions Trump makes in domestic and foreign policy as president, Campaign Legal Center president Trevor Potter said in a press release accompanying the letter.
