Jon Karl: ‘Impractical’ for Trump to Divest Himself

‘Doesn’t that seem like that would have been impractical for a guy that has the holdings he had between November 8 and January 20 to sell everything?’

KARL: "What the ethics experts that you talked to wanted him to do was to divest all his holdings. And George, I mean, frankly, doesn’t that seem like that would have been impractical for a guy with the holdings he had between November 8 and January 20 to sell everything? And wouldn’t that have raised issues? Who is buying? What are the prices? I don’t know that there was a good solution to this. And I think there is a point — look, this is clearly going to be something that is going to dog him for the rest of his time in office. But there is a point that, you know, the American people knew exactly who they were voting for. This was a guy with vast international holdings. He was a guy with vast interests, business interests."

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