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To: wagglebee
That is not a law, iirc. It is an affectation by politicians. I would expect Trump to 'just say no.'

This is a paragraph from fortune.com. Elsewhere I've read that neither John Kerry nor Nancy Pelosi have blind trusts.

But despite the perks and the recent press, only a few federal lawmakers actually have a blind trust. According to the Senate ethics committee, just 7 out of 100 U.S. Senators have gone through the approval process to set one up. In the House of Representatives, the percentage is even smaller. As of 2010, only 12 of the 435 members of the House had an official blind trust, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And those numbers haven’t changed much in the past decade.

634 posted on 09/02/2015 7:55:37 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins
He could probably get away from the blind trust, he can't get around the financial disclosure.
641 posted on 09/02/2015 8:36:41 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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