For all of us who are still stunned and numbed by the results of the 2016 presidential election, it\u2019s time to pull our heads out of the sand and get busy and flood the congressional phone lines \u00a0of Representative Jason Chaffetz (R. Utah).<\/p>\n
On Monday, November 28, seventeen Democrats who sit on the House Oversight Committee sent a lengthy and vitally important letter to Representative Chaffetz who serves as the current House Oversight Committee chairman. The letter outlines the members\u2019 concerns about president-elect Trump\u2019s potential conflicts of interest and his business assets across the globe. The letter cites a call by a group of nineteen government-accountability experts and organizations for Mr. Trump to take actions appropriate to the office of the presidency, which include placing his assets into a blind trust. This letter follows the call two weeks ago by Representative Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democratic member on the Oversight Committee, for a probe into Trump\u2019s potential conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n
Citing Trump\u2019s refusal to release his tax returns and deeply troubling reports of recent conversations with foreign leaders and business people since the election that appear to have included discussions of issues that could benefit Donald Trump and his family\u2019s business interests, the letter calls for the immediate opening of a probe into those and other possible conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n