To the Editor:
Isn’t anyone worried that Donald Trump’s children, if given security clearance, would be privy to information they might use in making decisions about his business interests, information other businesses would not have?
We know the stock market jumps up or down in response to events abroad. Suppose a Trump child gets word — from, say, the CIA — of an event taking place somewhere before anyone else and decides to buy or sell property or stocks to their advantage while others do not have that advance warning. This would be a worst-case scenario of “insider trading.”
I suggest the Trumps cannot have it both ways: Manage the family business from Trump Tower while having access to White House secrets. Absent a blind trust, this would further open the Trump family to suspicion of corruption on a worldwide scale.
John F. Battick
Dover-Foxcroft
