Trump vows to ‘remove’ himself from business, focus on presidency

Through his personal twitter account, US president-elect, Donald Trump promised on Wednesday to ‘remove’ himself from his businesses. and said he will announce details in two weeks about how he’ll avoid conflicts of interest when he is president.

Trump said that  will announce details in two weeks about how he will avoid conflicts of interest when he is president. The republican said that he will meet his children on December 15 to discuss plans to leave the Trump Organization in a news conference that

Trump owns or has a position in more than 500 companies, according to a CNN analysis. That includes about 150 that have done business in at least 25 foreign countries, including Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

His tweets said he is not mandated to leave his business by law, but that “I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses.”

Trump also said he is doing so “in order to fully focus on running the country in order to make America great again.” Legal documents are being crafted which take him completely out of business operations, he claimed. “The Presidency is a far more important task!”