Trump Organization will have ‘very large wall’ between business and US government: Eric Trump
Despite the company’s international ventures, the president-elect’s son, Eric, insists on ethical conduct and legal expertise to avoid conflicts of interest
The Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s family business, will have a “very large wall” separating its business activity from the US government, the president-elect’s son, Eric Trump, said in an interview in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The bulk of the Trump Organization’s business is in the United States, although it has significant interests overseas, including in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
During his first term, Donald Trump retained ownership of the Trump Organization but placed control of the sprawling business empire in the hands of his sons Eric and Donald Jnr.
“There’s going to be, obviously, a very large wall between anything having to do with our company and anything to do with government,” Eric Trump said at a bitcoin conference.
“I take those obligations very seriously. I navigated it the first time, I’ll do so the second time and, you know, I’ll be ethically very smart, very responsible, as we did,” he said.
The Trump Organization has a number of branded international projects under development, including in Jeddah and Dubai, and announced new ones in the Saudi capital on Monday.
Eric Trump said the Trump Organization would continue to grow over the next four years when Donald Trump is in office, but that it was unlikely to do business deals directly with governments, adding: “I think that probably is a conflict.”