Prominent current Yorker financier Carl Icahn was picked by President Donald Trump as a special adviser early in his administration,but now both parties are attempting to distance themselves from each other.current Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe has been reporting on this tangled relationship. He says that Icahn was named as a special adviser for deregulation — when deregulation would help his many trade and investment interests. "What was interesting approximately it was that he didn't need to give up any of his holdings, his investments. He didn't need to beget any disclosures and he apparently wasn't governed by any conflict of interest restrictions, and " Radden Keefe tells WNYC's Sean Carlson.
Icahn announced his resignation on Twitter saying he was leaving with "Trump's blessing."The White House now denies that Icahn is a special adviser to the president,and refutes that he was appointed in the first place.
Source: thetakeaway.org