Team Trump has not submitted a legally required ethics plan, stating he will avoid conflicts of interest -- so the transition process hasn't moved forward. Why anyone believes he'll follow it if he did is beyond me. Mr. Trump’s transition team was required to submit the ethics plan by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act. While the transition team’s leadership has privately drafted an ethics code and a conflict-of-interest statement governing its staff, those documents do not include language, required under the law, that explains how Mr.