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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But there is no problem with the Clinton Foundation taking 100s of millions of dollars from foreign governments.
What a bunch of bovine excrement this article is.
Shaub=democrat=idiot.
No wonder our government is so messed up.
More idiocy from the cultural marxists media!
Pure unadulterated crap.
There are people in this nation that wouldn’t be happy until Trump was penniless.
Too bad for them!
you should have seen Don Lemons show on CNN.
He had 3 guests on (including the nut that was GHWB ethics lawyer) and they went 15 minutes slamming DT.
Good grief!
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I believe Trump should put Put in in charge of his trust. By the way, this “ethics” guy is moronic political hack. HE should be investigated.
Donald J. Trump made his Money and then he went to Washington D.C.
That is exactly the opposite of how it’s been done in the past.
Just look at retiring Multi Millionaire Harry Reid who showed up in D.C. without a Pot to piss in or a Window to throw it through.
What are the bottom “ethics officials” saying? LOL! The “media” is a bunch of clowns.
Question for the Etics Guy:
Just where in the H3ll have you been for the past eight years?
Jeez, just leave us alone. You’ve compromised your position by your lack of action over the last eight years.
Where do they get these morons?
Cultural marxists have no ethics.
Trump doesn’t have to what other officials have to do. The constitution exempts the President. This jerk of the first oder can spout off at will, but his words are out of line and mean nothing. The left wing holier than thou attitude does not work any more. The public has wised up.
-PJ
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