Defense One: Tracking Trump’s National-Security Conflicts of Interest
A global business empire raises the question: will the next president’s foreign policy serve America’s interests or his own?
From close neighbors in Latin America to European allies in the fight against the Islamic State, Donald Trump has international entanglements like no previous commander in chief. Each of the president-elect’s business endeavors, critics say, offers an opportunity for foreign leaders and other actors to unduly influence U.S. policy through emoluments — or potentially, even extortion.
Keeping track of Trump’s national-security conflicts-of-interest will be no simple matter, observers say. Though some potentially profit-inflected decisions have already attracted critical scrutiny, others have surfaced only in the international press, and still others may remain hidden by the Trump Organization’s opaque operating style.
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