The White House says the president is ānot involvedā in running his businesses. Ethics experts remain concerned
Donald Trump has been accused of ācorruption, plain and simpleā after it was revealed that a member of the Emirati royal family was behind a $500m investment into the Trump familyās cryptocurrency company.
Ethics experts say the deal ā struck just days before the US presidentās inauguration last January ā amounts to a deep conflict of interest for the White House, amid calls for a congressional investigation into the transaction.
Months after the deal, the Trump administration announced that the United Arab Emirates would be allowed to import 500,000 of Nvidiaās powerful AI chips ā overriding concerns that the deal could eventually allow China access to the technology.
The Emoluments clause was dead the moment they let him get away with keeping his companies in the first term. What is happening now is just consequences of that and itās too little too late.