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Trump Commerce Pick Withdraws From Consideration

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Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts couldn’t untangle his financial holdings.

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Todd Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and a TD Ameritrade board member, has reportedly withdrawn his own nomination to be President Trump’s deputy commerce secretary. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Ricketts’s decision came as a result of him being “Unable to untangle his complex financial holdings to the satisfaction of the Office of Government Ethics.”

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