Rolling Stone: How Trump Misled America About His Plans for His Companies [View all]

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During a combative press conference Wednesday – during which the president-elect blasted BuzzFeed as a "failing pile of garbage" for publishing an intelligence dossier alleging a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" between Trump and his campaign and the government of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin – Trump finally unveiled a plan for distancing himself from the


Trump spokesman Sean Spicer began the event blasting the dossier, reportedly authored by a retired Western intelligence agent, as "salacious and flat-out false information." Trump called it "nonsense" and "fake news" but later added, referring to himself in the third person, "If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability."

The centerpiece of the press conference was a presentation by a Trump lawyer detailing the future of the Trump Organization. During the campaign, Trump had promised the American people that his businesses would be placed in a blind trust. He's tweeted since the election that his companies would do "no new deals" during his presidency.

Both of these vows, America learned Wednesday, are false.