The head of the US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) slammed President-elect Donald Trumps plan to separate himself from his business, calling it “wholly inadequate” in resolving potential conflicts of interest.
“The plan the President-elect has announced doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every
President in the last four decades have met,” OGE Director Walter Shaub said on Wednesday during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Stepping back from running his business is meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective,” he said.