Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump’s Tangled Web of Family and Business Ties

It’s all very confusing. Perhaps intentionally so.

November 14, 2016 at 6:29 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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On Friday, Donald Trump named his three eldest children -- Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric -- along with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to his presidential transition team. That group will direct the appointment of about 4,000 new people to posts that the White House oversees within the federal government.

Those appointments are where the president-elect knits together people with his policies; people who get those jobs are by nature beholden to Trump’s transition team.