Trump says all presidents face conflicts of interest, citing crypto and oil

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with CBS that every president has faced conflicts of interest, pointing to cryptocurrency now and oil in the past as examples of assets people may have owned. Trump added that conflicts of interest can also arise when someone who worked closely with a president moves to another job, whether in the defense industry or on Wall Street, because a president’s influence extends across all sectors. Asked the same day about a possible conflict between foreign investment in WLFI and his duties as president, Trump said he knew nothing about the matter and that his sons run the company, adding that a business cannot be expected to shut down for four years simply because he is president.