December 14, 2016 🟠 Major

Brings adult children into closed-door tech summit despite promised business split

At a Trump Tower meeting with the leaders of Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, and others, Trump seated Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric, and Jared Kushner alongside the CEOs and told the room "we have no formal chain of command around here." Their attendance underscored that the family was still running both the transition and the businesses, deepening ethics experts' warnings that he was merging state power with private interests.

"You'll call my people, you'll call me, it doesn't make any difference. We have no formal chain of command around here." — Remarks to tech summit attendees

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