Ethics issue 'nonsense', says official who cleared Trump Hotel
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Washington
SHORTLY after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the US official who oversees the lease of his signature Washington hotel offered Mr Trump's company an assessment of a report about its potential conflict of interest: "Nonsense."
Four months later, the same official cleared Mr Trump's company to keep its lease for the Trump International Hotel Washington DC throughout the president's time in office - a decision that may have saved Mr Trump millions of dollars, based on a statement his lawyers made in a court filing in May.
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