The bias in this article is oozing out. I would much prefer less biased articles and click-baity links on HN filled with hyperbole.
"President Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton, and Obama, all used “blind trusts” to manage assets, he says. Painter is now a
professor at the University of Minnesota Law School."
This is exactly what Trump is doing. He has setup his companies in a blind trust and his family is taking over the business. I'm not sure what else you want him to do.
Just because his family is managing it (IE: employees) doesn't mean they own the assets. The blind trust is most likely with people unrelated to him or the family.
You have a basic misunderstanding of the issue at hand because you didn't bother reading the article. Not only are you ignorant of the facts (what a blind trust is), you then accuse others of insulting your intelligence. On the face value of your comments, the claim that you possess any intelligence appears dubious.
This is kind of a big deal. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the President-elect, this could lead to impeachment if no blind trust or other equivalent instrument is established. It could be decided that an abuse of power has taken place for something as trivial as a foreign diplomat inadvertently being comped for a room in a Trump hotel by staff. While this scenario is highly unlikely, it's a surprisingly low baseline for the type of risk that he's opening himself up to by not actively mitigating conflicts of interest.
TL;DR You can't defeat a special prosecutor by calling them 'sad' on Twitter.
They are proposing solutions to a problem that hasn't come to pass. Asking if there is anything the public can do to protect themselves presumes a biased outcome. Its not even hinted in the article that he could handle this without self interest (a possible outcome).
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] thread"President Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton, and Obama, all used “blind trusts” to manage assets, he says. Painter is now a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School."
This is exactly what Trump is doing. He has setup his companies in a blind trust and his family is taking over the business. I'm not sure what else you want him to do.
EDIT: HN is an insult to my intelligence.
Blind trust is not about whether you own the assets or not, it's about NOT knowing what the assets are (hence "blind").
He and his family know what the assets are, which is what brings all the potential conflicts of interest.
>HN is an insult to my intelligence.
Not judging from the above comment.
TL;DR You can't defeat a special prosecutor by calling them 'sad' on Twitter.