I don’t believe you can name a president who did not ignore conflict of interest.
I can name many presidents who put their holdings in a blind trust, even Rockefeller as vice president. Trump continued to have control of his financial interests. No president in the last 75 years has acted like that.
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Since Jimmy Carter, most presidents have used blind trusts or other means to separate themselves from active control or ownership of assets to assure the public that they would not make decisions out of financial self-interest. (Barack Obama did not set up a blind trust. His money was in mutual funds, Treasury bills and the like.)
President Trump correctly pointed out that presidents are exempt from conflict-of-interest rules placed on federal officials, so he did not have to distance himself from his businesses. Yet the norm has been for presidents to act as if the rules applied to them. Trump turned over day-to-day management of his empire to his sons but insisted on staying informed and maintaining ownership. He had visited his properties more than 280 times as of late October, according to a Washington Post tally, thus raising their profile and drawing political, business and foreign customers seeking to curry favor with the administration. The Secret Service and other government agencies have paid
at least $2.5 million for rooms and other expenses at Trump properties, and his campaign and fundraising committee have paid $5.6 million more in fees for events, according to Post reporting.
“The president not only holding on to his businesses, but very explicitly advancing them while president … is a whole set of norms that has been kind of thrown out the window,” says Noah Bookbinder, executive director of the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “The idea that you can’t use government for your own personal financial gain is crucial for people to believe that government is working in their interest.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...gazine/trump-presidential-norm-breaking-list/
But says here Biden does not go after Trump for presidency-related items. Or else slow walks it like Trump did with Obama/Hillary.
Trump had nothing on Obama or Hillary. He just said those things to score political points. He didn’t 'slow walk" a thing.
