Carl Icahn rules out Treasury post

Published November 9, 2016 1:17pm ET



Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor who endorsed Donald Trump early in his successful quest for the White House, ruled out the possibility of serving in Trump’s Treasury Department Wednesday.

“There’s no way I would do that,” Icahn said in an interview on CNBC the afternoon after Trump’s victory, explaining that he has a business to run.

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