Spin Cycle

The Clintons divested themselves of a blind trust to avoid the appearance of interest conflicts, according to federal ethics documents the campaign gave to the New York Times and Washington Post yesterday (We've been asking for the ethics docs, but we, alas, are not in the Clinton Circle of Trust). The forms will presumably be available today, but also show that Bill Clinton's business relationship with California billionaire Ron Burkle is deepening while they are dumping potential embarrassing holdings in the drug, defense and retail sectors (Wal-Mart, etc.).

At the same time, they are dropping their old pal Vin Gupta, of embattled InfoUSA. Bill Clinton chose not to to exercise between $250,000 and $500,000 in stock options from InfoUSA after being given approximately $2.9 million by Gupta in consulting fees and jet travel. Details here.

Glenn Thrush