{"id":286760,"date":"2016-12-22T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carl-icahn-to-be-trumps-special-advisor-with-no-specific-duties\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T04:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:55:55","slug":"carl-icahn-to-be-trumps-special-advisor-with-no-specific-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carl-icahn-to-be-trumps-special-advisor-with-no-specific-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Icahn to be Trump\u2019s special advisor with no \u2018specific duties\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped his old fired, Carl Icahn, to serve as a special adviser on regulations reform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Icahn is one of the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest businessmen,\u201d according to a Trump press release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is not only a brilliant negotiator, but also someone who is innately able to predict the future especially having to do with finances and economies,&#8221; added the future president. &#8220;His help on the strangling regulations that our country is faced with will be invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American business magnate would be advising the president &#8220;in his individual capacity and will not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means Icahn will not have to separate himself from his business interests while advising the president, an accusation Trump and his family members are facing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Obama, America\u2019s business owners have been crippled by over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/22\/500916\/Trumps-close-friend-Carl-Icahn-to-be-his-special-advisor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped his old fired, Carl Icahn, to serve as a special adviser on regulations reform. Icahn is one of the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest businessmen,\u201d according to a Trump press release on Wednesday. &#8220;He is not only a brilliant negotiator, but also someone who is innately able to predict the future especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}