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ByBernardCondonand Julie Bykowicz TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK Breaking with presidential prece- dent, Donald Trump said Wednesday he will con- tinue to profit from his global business empire af- ter he enters the White House this month. The Trump Organiza- tion, which will be run by the president-elect's adult sons and a longtime com- pany executive, will pursue new deals in the U.S. but will not enter new foreign arrangements while he is in office, his lawyer said at a news conference. Trump will put his busi- ness assets in a trust but will hand over the manage- ment of his international real estate development, property management and licensing company based in New York, said the lawyer. Trump and the company are taking steps to assure Americans that he is "not exploiting the office of the presidency for his personal benefit," said Sheri Dillon of the firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius. Yet, the arrangement, which tracks closely with plans Trump has described in recent weeks, falls short of calls by some ethics ex- perts — and the Office of Government Ethics — for him to sell off his busi- nesses and put the pro- ceeds in a blind trust over- seen by an independent manager. "Firewalls work in busi- nesses, not in families," said Danielle Brian, execu- tive director of the Project on Government Oversight. "Trump's plan doesn't pre- vent his business interests from benefiting him or his family while he's in of- fice or interfering with his presidential duties." Dillon said the company will add an ethics adviser to its management team who must approve deals that could raise concerns about conflicts. And the company plans to donate money spent by foreign governments at his hotels to the U.S. Treasury, she said. Trump himself was breezier in his comments. He said U.S. conflict-of- interest restrictions don't apply to presidents, and "I could actually run my busi- ness and run government at the same time." But "I don't like the way that looks," he said. "My two sons who are right here, Don and Eric, are going to be running the company. ... They're not go- ing to discuss it with me." "I hope at the end of eight years, I'll come back and say, oh, you did a good job. Otherwise, if they do a bad job, I'll say, 'You're fired.'" The announcement, made at Trump Tower in New York during Trump's first news conference since July, appeared to walk back a broader promise he made last month in a Fox News interview and a tweet that the company would do "no new deals" at all while he is in office. Although presidents are not subject to the same conflict-of-interest provi- sions as their Cabinet mem- bers and other government employees, they have typ- ically followed those rules as a best practice. For example, President Jimmy Carter sold his Georgia peanut farm when he took office. Trump's dealings are far more com- plex; He has struck deals involving hotels, office buildings, golf resorts and residential towers in about 20 countries. Dillon said it was im- practical for Trump to sell off the company as some have called for because it is so enmeshed with Trump himself. Trump, she said, "should not be expected to destroy the company he built." Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. will run the company along with Al- len Weisselberg, the cur- rent chief financial officer. Weisselberg began work with the Trump family when the president-elect's father, Fred, ran the busi- ness. The president-elect's new hotel in the nation's capital, not far from the White House, has been under the spotlight since he opened it late last year. There were news reports that diplomats were choos- ing to stay there and throw parties in an apparent at- tempt to curry favor. Government ethics em- ployees have urged Trump to take bigger steps. Walter Shaub, the direc- tor of the Office of Govern- ment Ethics, told transi- tion officials late last year in emails that the only ef- fective way to ward off po- tential conflicts was to go through the process of "di- vestiture," selling off all in- vestments and corporate assets and then placing them in a blind trust over- seen by neutral trustees ap- proved by the agency. In November, the agency, at Shaub's direction, ac- cording to an internal email, tweeted that "OGE is delighted that you've de- cided to divest your busi- nesses. Right decision!" OGE officials did not say why they had made that as- sertion on social media. Good government groups in Washington widely de- cried Trump's plan as inef- fective. "His decision has created a direct path by which U.S. and foreign interests, in- cluding foreign govern- ments, can exert influ- ence over him through his companies or holdings," said Trevor Potter, presi- dent of the Campaign Le- gal Center. Norman Eisen, who was President Barack Obama's chief ethics coun- selor when he took office in 2009, called Trump's plan an "ill-advised course that will precipitate scandal and corruption." Standing aside a mound of papers prepared to sep- arate Trump from his busi- ness, Dillon argued that he had taken significant steps at great personal sacrifice to separate himself from the business. She said he had already canceled more than 30 deals in the works around the world. MANAGEMENT Trump leaving his global business — to be run by his sons SETHWENIG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS President-elect Donald Trump waits with family members Eric Trump, le , Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. before speaking at a news conference, Wednesday in New York. 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The final statements came a day after jurors sen- tenced an unrepentant Roof to death. The gunman had one final opportunity to ask for mercy but instead told jurors he still "felt like I had to do it." On Wednesday, U.S. Dis- trict Judge Richard Ger- gel formally confirmed the sentence, saying "This hate, this viciousness, this moral depravity will not go unan- swered." Some family members already testified at Roof's trial. The formal sentenc- ing hearing gave 35 of them a chance to speak directly to him, without prosecutors or the judge interrupting or asking questions. Roof also had an op- portunity to speak but de- clined to say anything. He is the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime. Some of the relatives looked directly at Roof. Oth- ers chose to look at jurors, who did not have to be in court Wednesday but told the judge they wanted to attend. CHARLESTON SHOOTER Relatives of slain churchgoers confront gunman for last time Werollupoursleevesforourcommunities. 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