President-elect Donald Trump's "vast real-estate empire" is "neither vast nor an empire," Bloomberg View editor Timothy O'Brien argued in a column published Thursday. Instead, O'Brien says, the Trump Organization is more akin to a "family-owned boutique business" — which would really make it quite simple for Trump to extricate himself from the growing web of conflicts of interest, should he choose to do so.
If Trump is serious about his promise tweeted Wednesday to leave his "great business in total," O'Brien has the easy, breezy, two-step process already outlined:
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