White House: Trump Resigned From His Businesses, But The Proof’s Not Public

White House press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily White House briefing, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Monday that President Donald Trump has resigned from his businesses, but seemed unaware that there was no public proof of that.

“Will the President release documents showing that he has left his businesses?” a reporter asked at Spicer’s first formal briefing.

“I believe we have,” Spicer said, looking offscreen toward a row of seated White House staffers including senior advisor Kellyanne Conway and strategic communications director Hope Hicks.

“They are not public at this time,” one of the offscreen aides replied.

“But yeah, he has resigned from the company, as he said he would, before he took office,” Spicer continued. “Don and Eric are fully in charge of the company. He’s taken extraordinary steps to ensure that that’s happened.”

Trump said he has resigned from positions in more than 400 business entities, according to a report published by CNN Money about half an hour after Spicer took the question. The report cited a letter provided by the Trump Organization, but did not publish the document itself.

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  1. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    “Will the President release documents showing that he has left his businesses?” a reporter asked at Spicer’s first formal briefing.

    “I believe we have,” Spicer said

    Unless we’re supposed to have x-ray vision that is bullshit

  2. Once again, Spicer is caught in a deliberate lie.

    This is going to be a daily occurrence.

  3. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Just another White House lie . . . !

  4. Avatar for hoagie hoagie says:

    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln

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