Trumps Lawyer Scrambled After Conway Plugged Trump Clothing

by ARI MELBER , MEREDITH MANDELL and DIANA MARINACCIO
MAR 9 2017, 10:04 PM ET

When Nordstrom department store dropped Ivanka Trump's clothing line in February, the White House's objections drew fire for blurring the line between government and business.

The responses — a tweet by President Donald Trump and an unusual TV appearance by adviser Kellyanne Conway — alarmed Trump's ethics lawyer enough to swiftly huddle with the federal ethics office, which has tangled with the Trump White House, according to new emails obtained by NBC News ...

By 3:56 p.m. that day, the top lawyer at the Office of Government Ethics, David Apol, asked Trump's White House ethics lawyer for a phone call to discuss "an issue that has come up."

Records show Trump's lawyer, Stefan Passantino, called the ethics office five minutes later. A summary of their discussion is now public for the first time ...

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