ETHICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is outlining the financial health of the business assets he placed into a trust when he took office.
The information comes in a new financial disclosure he voluntarily made Friday [6-16-17] to the Office of Government Ethics. The documents cover January 2016 through this spring.
The report shows Trump resigned from more than 500 positions, many of them a day before his inauguration as president. Trump listed at least $315 million in liabilities, about the same as in a report he filed last year.
The documents have added importance because Trump isn’t following the long tradition of presidential candidates and office-holding of making public his tax returns. Those returns provide more complete financial information than the personal financial disclosures, which only include broad ranges for income and debts.”
-Julie Bykowicz, “Trump submits financial information detailing trust assets,” The Washington Post online, June 16, 2017 05:24pm