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Donald Trump has not separated himself completely from his business interests.
Trump is hiding his tax returns from pubic view, where conflicts might exist that could reveal personal benefits from his own tax proposals.
Trump barred access to the White House visitors' log, preventing public view of those persons possibly influencing his policies.
Trump is turning the presidency into a permanent and profitable vacation by spending one out of every five minutes at Mar-a-Logo or a nearby golf course, while circulating millions of dollars back to his family through the charges at Trump's resorts.
Trump is calling for warmer relations with Russia without disclosing details of his business ties to Russian interests and oligarchs.
Trump is resisting investigations into whether his campaign was complicit in Russia's interference in the election that made him president.
Trump is influenced by his Turkish business interests, congratulating authoritarian leader Recep Erdogan on his suspect election win, while the rest of the world criticized its results.
What is Trump going to have to do to get the stalling, wish-washy Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee to lift their senatorial backsides off their power-hungry thrones, and make immediate, serious moves to stop Trump before he destroys our democracy?
According to E. J. Dionne of The Washington Post, we citizens can help by "insisting on calling out a self-absorbed huckster who treats us all as easily bamboozled fools."
John Dombek
Santa Clara