Posted on 01/11/2017 8:00:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump's plan to let his sons run his business drew a biting attack Wednesday from the federal government's top ethics official, who said Trump is setting a bad example for the rest of government.
Walter M. Shaub, Jr., director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, said in remarks at the Brookings Institution that Trump’s “perplexing” plan “doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the past four decades has met.”
Trump said he would retain ownership of his businesses but step back from running them, placing them in a trust to be run by sons Donald Jr. and Eric. He and his attorney said Wednesday that the plan would mean he has no involvement in decisions and little information about what his sons are doing.
Shaub said that didn't solve anything.
“The only thing this has in common with a blind trust is the label ‘trust,'" Shaub said. “His sons are still running the businesses, and, of course, he knows what he owns.”
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Only in Washington is it considered to absurd to keep money you have lawfully earned.
No wonder Trump has contempt for the town.
Politicians talking of ethics - run for the hills when you hear them.
They’re as honest as a three dollar bill.
That was different— she wasn’t selling her own stuff.
Citizen representation used to be the standard. *Working* citizens.
A working American, with a career of success, independently wealthy, is simply not allowed to be elected.
If elected, he must not be allowed to succeed. He must be destroyed, in fact. After all, Trump is uppity and did not come in on the political turnip truck, loaded with those who have never held a job, or had to meet a payroll.
Good luck on the job hunt Walter!
Well our current President was a community activist and he separated himself from Rev. Wright and Bill Aires.
Now we know A little more why the first thing out of the gate, for the R’s, was about the “ethics committee” needing to be overhauled. It likely could have been done soon and quickly.
Lets see.
The Congress was all for doing away with part of this ‘group’, the PrezElect says we can’t do that and one of the leaders of the group PrezElect ‘stood up for’ is saying Trump is setting a bad example.
Of course idiots like the fool that is being quoted here is a great example of what happens when the ‘boss’ has to be the smartest person in the room.
This ‘doubles down’ when the Boss is a blooming idiot and he ensures he is the smartest person in the room.
Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea if the Trump name
were removed from buildings. Jihad magnet.
At this point I say.. "stick ethics up your A$$"
Shaub - deliberately blind. If his office did its job, half of the Clinton and Obama people/staff/appointees, etc. would either be in jail or before a firing squad, as well as about 80 members of congress (corruption, cronyism, treason, insanity, and dressing funny - the illustrious Sheila E - no not the singer, the ahole from Texass.
Congress like Pelosi and Senate like Feinstein are allowed to trade in the market with insider trading and got rich doing so, but Trump who is working for one dollar per year, can’t let his sons run the business, give his foreign profits to the US Treasury, and forego foreign deals for 8 years.
By giving a pass for years on the Clinton Foundation, I refuse to listen to any suggestions by the MSM that Trump has conflicts of interest. For them, it’s just another issue to lie about to discredit Trump. I consider it all fake news until I hear it from a credible source, and that does not include the alphabet networks or the WaPo, NYT, LAT, etc.
Can a history buff explain more. Wasn’t Martha Washington one of the richest women / person in America?
He was the Rockefeller of his time, the richest man in the United States, a promoter of stock companies, a land-grabber, an exploiter of mines and timber...
...Inhabiting These States today, George would be ineligible for any office of honor or profit. The Senate would never dare confirm him; the President would not think of nominating him. He would be on trial in the newspapers for belonging to the Money Power...
- H.L. Mencken, Damn! A Book of Calumny, 1918
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