Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Thursday that he trusts President-elect Trump to remove himself from his business empire before being sworn in as the next president of the United States, and said it doesn’t make sense to judge his plans until they are revealed on Dec. 15.
“This is a more complicated matter than what we’ve seen in the past, with past presidents or senior officials just simply selling stock or putting stock into a blind trust,” Cotton said on CNN. “You can’t really hide a building, or… hide who’s going into a building.”
“But, I trust Donald Trump’s word that he’s going to put the business of the American people first, and he’ll be revealing more about all these details in two weeks, and we can all judge them then,” he said.
Cotton and other Republicans pounded Hillary Clinton for the access she gave to corporate donors to the Clinton Foundation, but said Clinton’s situation is far different from Trump’s.
“Running a hotel is very different,” he said. “People stay in Trump hotels all around the world. That’s not paying someone $750,000 to give a speech in a foreign government when you’re trying to influence the State Department.”
