Donald Trump has named three of his children as well as his son-in-law to the executive committee overseeing his presidential transition team, inciting major concerns about the potential conflict of Trump's business interests and his presidency. Trump's attorney reported Thursday that the president-elect's vast holdings would be placed in a blind trust with his children Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. But "under the legal definition of a blind trust, a public official places his finances under the management of an independent party," Politico reports. "The official would have no knowledge of what is in the trust or how it is managed."
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