Trump pledged not to use his office to help his business. Then he pitched his Florida club for the next G-7.

When President Trump decided to keep ownership of his company and continue to do business with foreign governments, he said nobody could stop him.

But voters could trust him to police himself, he said.

“I will be leaving my great business in total,” Trump said, pledging to do more to keep his roles separate than was required of him in the Constitution.

“There are lines that we would never cross, and that’s mixing business with anything government,” said Eric Trump, one of two Trump sons who would be taking over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization.

View the complete August 31 article by Jonathan O’Connell, Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold.