Pledged not to use office to help his business. Then pitched his club for next G-7

By Jonathan O'Connell , Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold
August 31


... “I will be leaving my great business in total,” Trump said, pledging to do more to keep his roles separate than was required of him in the Constitution.

“There are lines that we would never cross, and that’s mixing business with anything government,” said Eric Trump, one of two Trump sons who would be taking over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization ...

... Trump has repeatedly crossed that line, routinely visiting his properties and talking them up on television and Twitter. The most overt example came last week, when Trump said he was likely to award next year’s Group of Seven summit to his company’s Doral golf resort in Florida — a plan that would direct millions of dollars to benefit his own business ...

Last year, foreign governments paid more than $1 million to Trump’s company, said George Sorial, who until June served as the Trump Organization’s top compliance official ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pledged-not-to-use-his-office-to-help-his-business-then-he-pitched-his-florida-club-for-the-next-g-7/2019/08/30/98b353c0-ca7b-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1