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The Trump Organization has indicated it will fire William Burck, the Quinn Emanuel lawyer it hired as its ethics adviser, after President Donald Trump said Burck should be removed because of his work for Harvard University.
The president’s son Eric Trump said on Thursday that he viewed Burck’s work for both Harvard and the Trump Organization as a “conflict” and added: “I will be moving in a different direction”, in comments confirmed to the Financial Times by a spokesperson for the company.
It came hours after the president posted on Truth Social that he hoped his “very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!”
Burck, global co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel, is representing Harvard in its battle with the Trump administration. The government has said it will freeze funding to the university, which Trump described in his Truth Social post on Thursday as an “Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution”.
The Trump Organization hired Burck in January to help it develop ethics policies to prevent conflicts of interest with the administration, Eric Trump, executive vice-president of the company, said at the time according to Reuters. Burck did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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