It’s a prerequisite of taking office, that you either give up all of your business interests or mothball them until your term has finished.
Of course Trump completely ignored this and he’s been allowed to get away with it, both this term and his...
You're looking at it too close, take a step back and you'll see that it's capital that controls the state, therefore they dictate policy and consequence. The state now exists to serve capital rather than social cohesion and societal interests...
Agricultural capitalism, merchant capitalism, industrial capitalism and state capitalism.
4 stages. We're in the last. There is nothing in that which brings benefit to the populace.
It's the end of empire, theatre repeated throughout history...
The trump family are making billions lets not forget from this presidency, a long time from jimmy carter having to give up his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest