Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 94
A 'major news conference' on December 15 about leaving his business
Late“[paraphrase] I will hold a major news conference in New York with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total order.”
- Promised
- , Twitter, during the presidential transition
- Stated deadline
- “December 15 (a 15-day self-set deadline)” → December 15, 2016
- Re-promised
- 2 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Transparency & records
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
He cancelled on December 12, 2016 and pushed it to January. The press conference finally happened on January 11, 2017, where he announced he would hand management to his sons via a trust but would not divest — an arrangement the director of the Office of Government Ethics publicly called inadequate that same day.