President Obama’s Ethics Chief Say Donald Trump’s Nordstrom Tweet Is An ‘Abuse’ Of Presidency
Norm Eisen who served as President Barack Obama‘s ethics czar said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s attack on Nordstrom for dropping his daughter’s clothing line is “an abuse of the office of the presidency.”
Eisen said in an interview on MSNBC, “It is an example of why Donald Trump and his family needed to step away, needed to make a more definitive break,”
He went on to say, “And I think it’s an abuse of the office of the presidency. He’s putting the bully in the bully pulpit.”
Eisen also noted that Nordstrom now has a “cause of action” against Trump. “To attack this company on dubious factual assertions in order to promote his daughter, whatever degree of separation she has, we still don’t know if Donald Trump himself is invested in those businesses,” he said. “And it’s just the latest in a series of these entanglements.”
Donald Trump started the day Wednesday by attacking Nordstrom on Twitter after the department store said it would no longer carry Ivanka Trump’s clothing line.
“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” Trump wrote on Twitter using his personal account. The tweet was later shared by the official @POTUS account as well.
Nordstrom dropped Ivanka’s clothing line because of poor performance
Nordstrom on Wednesday reiterated it’s announcement that the decision was a business decision “based on performance.”
“Over the past year, and particularly in the last half of 2016, sales of the brand have steadily declined to the point where it didn’t make good business sense for us to continue with the line for now,” a Nordstrom spokesperson said in a statement.
