By KAREN YOURISH and WILSON ANDREWS JAN. 18, 2017 Images of Donald J. Trump and his daughter Ivanka have been used extensively by the Trump Organization and its business partners to sell a wealth of products like clothing and jewelry, luxury real estate, hotels and golf clubs. Over the last week, the Trump Organization and […]
By JOSH GERSTEIN 01/18/17 03:34 PM EST Days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath to uphold the Constitution, he has followed through on a more painful obligation: coughing up $25 million to settle litigation over his defunct Trump University real estate seminar program. Trump University — now known as the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative […]
Chris Sommerfeldt January 17, 2017 12:16 AM Donald Trump claimed during his first press conference as President-elect last week that “only reporters” care about seeing his tax returns — but a new poll suggests that nearly three quarters of the country believe that he should release them. Seventy-four per cent of Americans agree that Trump […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/13/17 CLICK IMAGES for stories. Trump tries to stick SC taxpayers with bill for Trump Jr’s mess Rachel Maddow reports on how Donald Trump bought his son’s failed business to shield him from having to clean up possible pollution at the business site, sticking South Carolina taxpayers with the bill if […]
By STEVE EDER and ERIC LIPTON JAN. 13, 2017 The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Thursday issued a stern letter, including a veiled threat of an investigation, to the federal government’s top ethics monitor, who this week had questioned President-elect Donald J. Trump’s commitment to confront his potential conflicts of interest. In an […]
By KATIE BENNER JAN. 13, 2017 Just days after the 2016 presidential election, a young venture capitalist called an emergency staff meeting. Prepare for a storm of publicity, he told one of the start-ups that he had helped found. There would be questions about his political affiliations and loyalties, he said. There would be questions about the […]
EMMA GREY ELLIS BUSINESS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 01.11.17. 7:09 PM. PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP campaigned on his business acumen. His image as a hyper-successful, tough-talking real estate mogul is crucial to his appeal—whether it’s true or not. Still, concerns that Trump’s sprawling network of business entanglements creates an equally expansive web of conflicts of interest have dogged […]
By SUSANNE CRAIG, JO BECKER and JESSE DRUCKERJAN. 7, 2017 On the night of Nov. 16, a group of executives gathered in a private dining room of the restaurant La Chine at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The table was laden with Chinese delicacies and $2,100 bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild. At one […]
Jeremy Venook Jan 5, 2017. A semi-comprehensive list of the business concerns that may influence the president-elect as he prepares for the nation’s highest office. Since his election, an ever-increasing level of attention has been paid to the unprecedented conflicts of interest that President-elect Donald J. Trump seems likely to bring with him when he assumes […]