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Donald Trump gave his first press conference as president-elect today, and it was, predictably, a disaster from start to finish. The man who will be president in just a few days finally acknowledged that Russia probably hacked the Democratic National Committee and disseminated stolen documents during the 2016 election.
He also implored that we give consideration to “what was learned from the hacking.” Thus you had the president-elect making excuses for an apparent act of foreign political espionage because it benefited him electorally.
Responding to media reports that he had been briefed on reports that Russia had compromising information that could be used to blackmail him, Trump declared war on BuzzFeed and CNN, calling the former a “failing pile of garbage” and dismissing the latter as “fake news” as he brushed off a CNN reporter’s attempt to ask a question. And after urging everyone to keep an open mind about Russia’s leaking embarrassing information about his political opponents, Trump then attacked his own intelligence community as being no better than the Third Reich over leaks that reflected poorly on him.
So that’s all insane, but it was just a sideshow to the press conference’s true purpose: Trump and his team announcing how they plan to handle his business interests for the duration of his presidency. This is a critical issue and one that cuts directly to Trump’s ability to serve capably as president. The plan they came up seems designed to give an impression of ethical conduct while doing next to nothing to avoid the massive conflicts of interest at play.
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