Sunlight Foundation’s guide to Trump conflicts

From the Sunlight Foundation:

Our questions about what open government would mean in the White House of President Donald J. Trump have been answered: this is a secretive administration, allergic to transparency and hostile to the essential role journalism plays in a democracy.

In the days and months since Election Day and Inauguration Day, this president has continued to mix the business interests of the Trump Organization with those of the American people, whom he represents.

On November 28, Sunlight began maintaining a list of reported conflicts of interest, where Trump business had mixed with public business, and unconfirmed reports of conflicts of interest, where more reporting is needed to clarify, and resolved instances.

On May 9th, we relaunched our list as a spreadsheet, expanded from a list of dozens to hundreds of entities. On July 7, we updated our list again, incorporating President Trump’s financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics on June 14th and media reports from around the world.

We’ll continue to update our list of Trump’s conflicts of interest, embedded below, as more relevant news stories, court filings and legislation enter the public record, including noting when or if a given conflict has been resolved, and publishing investigative journalism based upon it. If you have ideas for a story or visualization, please pitch us.

So use the links above to study the list, and the spreadsheet, and to understand the extent of Trump’s conflicts of interest.


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