"The scale of corruption will be orders of magnitude greater than what we saw in the first Trump administration," said government ethics lawyer Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law in St.

Trump's company says it won't strike direct deals with foreign governments after inauguration, but can make deals with private foreign companies.

The Trump Organization submitted an ethics plan for Donald J. Trump’s second presidential term that doesn’t rule out striking new deals with foreign companies — a break with its approach to managing conflicts of interest when he first took office.