THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Rudi wants us to know he cares deeply about the future of Donald Trump's adult children. He wants us to know that putting Trump assets into a blind trust would include the children and put them out of work. The poor dears would have to live off daddy's Billions.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, said on Sunday that it would be “unrealistic” to remove Mr. Trump’s children from their roles in running his business empire and place the assets into a strict blind trust like the ones used by previous presidents.

“I think he’s in a very unusual situation,” Mr. Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He would basically put his children out of work,” he added, “and they’d have to go start a whole new business, and that would set up set up new problems.”

As president, Mr. Trump will not be required to sell his assets, which he has valued in billions of dollars. But the vast scope of Mr. Trump’s assets and business dealings is likely to lead to questions about how his actions as president would affect the financial fortunes of him and his family.

Most modern presidents have elected to use a blind trust, which puts their assets under the control of an independent trustee.

The financial arrangement was one of a number of questions surrounding Mr. Trump’s transition efforts, as his team moved toward announcing staff positions, tried to clarify the president-elect’s agenda and sought to reassure those still questioning his fitness for office.

Mr. Giuliani, a vice chairman of Mr. Trump’s transition team who is believed to be under consideration for various posts in the Trump administration, including attorney general, said that fears of a conflict of interest were groundless. He also said that Mr. Trump’s three adult children, who hold leadership positions in his businesses, would not advise him as president.

The three children, Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric, as well as Ms. Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, are members of the executive council of Mr. Trump’s transition committee. Once Mr. Trump takes office, Mr. Giuliani said, the president will erect “a wall between them with regard to government matters.”

“You have to have some confidence in the integrity of the president,” Mr. Giuliani said. “The man is an enormously wealthy man. I don’t think there’s any real fear or suspicion that he’s seeking to enrich himself by being president. If he wanted to enrich himself, he wouldn’t have run for president.”

Having seen his master win the White House on an avalanche of lies, Renfield "Rudi" Ghouliani thinks he can pull off the same deal. Who could possibly believe him?