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December 1, 2016

Conflict rules different for presidents

  • The government's legislative and judicial branches are governed by well-established rules, but there's far less clarity about what a president can and cannot do.
    • By JULIE BYKOWICZ and MARK SHERMAN
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Rep. David McKinley has sold his West Virginia engineering and architecture firm, but it still bears his name — and that earned the Republican congressman a rebuke from the House Ethics Committee.

    President-elect Donald Trump has built an international property management, real estate and branding business around his name. There appears to be no consequence for that.


     
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