Spicer: If Were Transparent About Conflicts Of Interest, They Dont Exist!
By MATT SHUHAM Published DECEMBER 14, 2016, 12:51 PM EDT
Sean Spicer argued Wednesday that conflicts of interest presented by the involvement of President-elect Donald Trump’s adult children in both his transition team and his business actually aren't problematic unless they're “sneaky about it.”
“Since going back to that debate in August of last year, he was very clear of the role the family was going to play in the campaign, and the government and in his business,” the transition team’s senior communications adviser said in an interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan, referencing the first presidential debate when the issue of Trump’s business conflicts of interest was brought up.
Bolduan corrected Spicer, noting that Trump said throughout the campaign that his adult children would operate his business and that he would concentrate fully on his duties as president. “Right, and then he put every one of them on the transition team and made it clear they would be part of this process,” Spicer replied.
Spicer argued Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s involvement in the transition would only present a legitimate conflict of interest if the transition team hadn't been transparent about their participation, saying that "conflicts of interest arise when you are sneaky about it, shady about it."
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