Why America is so blasé about Trump's conflicts of interest

Here's why the Clinton Foundation sparked outrage and the Trump Organization induces yawns

Donald Trump and his children open Trump Soho New York.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Since the election, there has been an extraordinary amount of ink spilled on the subject of President-elect Donald Trump's businesses and the potential conflicts they pose when he moves into the Oval Office. And the conflicts are legion.

Trump, after all, has been an international brand for decades. He has ventures in multiple countries on nearly every continent. Though we don't know for certain who he owes money to, there is reason to suspect that he is in hock to entities with close ties to the Russian and Chinese governments. His closest advisers are his children, who are also executives in his business. He just built a new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue with his name on it.

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Noah Millman

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.