Posted on 11/12/2024 9:23:17 AM PST by Another Kansan
Hyperventilation about President-Elect Trump not yet signing an ethics agreement with GSA is fabricated nonsense. Read the actual law. The obligation to get this done is on GSA not the President-Elect.
"(1) In general.-Not later than October 1 of a year during which a Presidential election occurs, the President (acting through the Federal Transition Coordinator) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the transition representative of each eligible candidate, which shall include, at a minimum, the conditions of access to employees, facilities, and documents of agencies by transition staff.
"(2) Existing resources.-To the maximum extent practicable, the memorandums of understanding negotiated under paragraph (1) shall be based on memorandums of understanding from previous Presidential transitions.
"(3) Ethics plan.-
"(A) In general.-Each memorandum of understanding under paragraph (1) shall include an agreement that the eligible candidate will implement and enforce an ethics plan to guide the conduct of the transition beginning on the date on which the eligible candidate becomes the apparent successful candidate for the office of President. "(B) Contents.-The ethics plan shall include, at a minimum- "(i) a description of the ethics requirements that will apply to all members of the transition team, including any specific requirement for transition team members who will have access to nonpublic or classified information; "(ii) a description of how the transition team will- "(I) address the role on the transition team of- "(aa) lobbyists registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and individuals who were former lobbyists registered under that Act; and "(bb) persons registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.), foreign nationals, and other foreign agents; "(II) prohibit a transition team member with conflicts of interest similar to those applicable to Federal employees under section 2635.402(a) and section 2635.502(a) of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, related to current or former employment, affiliations, clients, or investments, from working on particular matters involving specific parties that affect the interests of such member; and "(III) address how the covered eligible candidate will address his or her own conflicts of interest during a Presidential term if the covered eligible candidate becomes the apparent successful candidate for the office of President; "(iii) a Code of Ethical Conduct, which each member of the transition team will sign and be subject to, that reflects the content of the ethics plans under this paragraph and at a minimum requires transition team members to- "(I) seek authorization from transition team leaders or their designees before seeking, on behalf of the transition, access to any nonpublic information; "(II) keep confidential any nonpublic information provided in the course of the duties of the member with the transition and exclusively use such information for the purposes of the transition; and "(III) not use any nonpublic information provided in the course of transition duties, in any manner, for personal or private gain for the member or any other party at any time during or after the transition; and "(iv) a description of how the transition team will enforce the Code of Ethical Conduct, including the names of the members of the transition team responsible for enforcement, oversight, and compliance. "(C) Publicly available.-The transition team shall make the ethics plan described in this paragraph publicly available on the internet website of the General Services Administration the earlier of- "(i) the day on which the memorandum of understanding is completed; or "(ii) October 1.
Now that’s one big salad.
If you don’t have to sign, don’t.
What you sign is going to be used against you.
It is not constitutional ergo unenforceable against the executive branch which is completely independent of the legislature.
“Presidential Immunity”
And of course Reddit is hyperventilating over this… “He’s broken the law already!!!” Stupid Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren started all this. She’s a first class traitor.
Good.
So, did President Biden do his job? Did he negotiate the agreement?
Can that be ‘boiled down’ to a paragraph or two?
Asking for a friend.
Still trying to find where in that pesky constitution thingie ,that this law occurs.....
Trump is going to do nothing that is simply to appease democrats and their very few supporters and unfair, do as I say not as I do supporters
Senator Warren says she wrote it. Not on me!
You know what they say about laws and sausages? Well, that there’s one big ol’ legal bratwurst (not to be confused with Biden, tho).
It’s a trap. He signs that crap and they find something to impeach him with a month after swearing in.
warren (Fauxcahontas) says she authored the bill and he is in violation.
means he probably isn’t.
Set it next to the commode for when...
I wouldn’t sign it and I’d tell “Lie-A-Watha” Warren to take her quill and ink bottle and stick them
Trump is not participating in the govt transition or taking any of their money. Hes doing a privately funded transition with his own people.
The quality I love most about Pres. Trump...
The man learns from his mistakes.
Stick them up her TeePee?
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