Experts: Ivanka Trump's endorsement of Goya Foods puts her in serious legal trouble

[soothsayer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/experts-ivanka-trumps-endorsement-of-goya-foods-puts-her-in-serious-legal-trouble/

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Government ethics experts across the nation are denouncing Ivanka Trump’s late-night endorsement of Goya Foods as a violation of law – and ethics – especially as it comes just days after the company’s CEO appeared on national television in the Rose Garden of the White House to praise President Donald Trump.

“If it’s Goya, it has to be good,” the First Daughter and Senior Advisor to the President tweeted Tuesday night, with the statement repeated in Spanish. In her tweet Ivanka Trump is displaying a can of Goya black beans by holding it with her right hand and suggestively motioning to it with her left, as many do when endorsing a product.

Ms. Trump’s Goya tweet is clearly a violation of the government’s misuse of position regulation, 5 C.F.R. § 2635.702. Ms. Trump has had ethics training. She knows better. But she did it anyway because no one in this administration cares about government ethics,” Shaub says.

[samsingh]

1. at the state level i hope

[customerserviceguy]

22. If its a Federal regulation she violated

how would any state legal system be involved with that?

Besides, I don't know what the penalties are, but I severely doubt that incarceration is one of them. The worst would probably be a fine that is less than the purported value of a handful of the frills that Ivanka markets to stupid people.

[NCjack]

28. Blatant. In our faces. No federal prosecutor will take the case. So, she gets away with it.

[customerserviceguy]

30. It would be a tough case for a prosecutor

For starters, there would be no trial until way after the election, so that would take away an incentive.

Plus, I doubt that Ivanka and Jared own stock in Goya, so there would be no financial reason for her to do this, and that undercuts a case.

[Aristus]

78. Quid pro quo.

The CEO donates to Trump's campaign, the Trumps shill for his company on the taxpayers' dime. How is this not a blatant violation of election law?

[customerserviceguy]

85. I didn't know about that

I thought that the only thing the CEO did was to say something nice about Trump in public.

In any case, I don't recall anyone going to prison over a violation of a campaign finance law, I seem to recall there only being fines involved. The best prosecutors probably prefer to handle cases that involve some serious punishment, and would leave something like this to an underling, who might not be able to beat someone who the Trumps could afford to hire.

[Lucinda]

2. Good. n/t

[Laelth]

3. Dare I say, "Lock her up?"

This violation is blatant.



-Laelth

[MoonchildCA]

4. No one cares about ethics,

Because no one is ever held accountable.

[CentralMass]

12. True.

[onethatcares]

14. and no one in this maladministration

can even spell "ethics", let alone define it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

58. The first thing Trump did when he sat behind the Resolute desk

was to have Jared bring him a dictionary and a Sharpie so he could black out the word "ethics" -- after Ivanka explained to him what the word meant. Then all three shared a good laugh.

[Docreed2003]

5. They don't care...and they're flaunting their position

[Scarsdale]

62. She is taking her own advice.

Since she is telling other people who have lost their jobs, to "find something else" she has decided that her job is on the chopping block (Thank you God) and is practicing becoming a spokesmodel for food items. One question do her teeth glow in the dark?

[Kaiserguy]

77. Do her teeth glow in the dark

That's one question to which I don't want the answer. Just the picture of her coming at me in he dark sends chills down my spine.

[Champp]

6. Lock her up

Lock her up

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. THIS

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. If only anyone cared about ethics these days.

[sfstaxprep]

15. The repubs Do When It's A Democrat nt

[certainot]

53. 1500 screaming radio stations are the difference

[lagomorph777]

8. I found 5 C.F.R. § 2635.702 in 5 seconds of work with a search engine.

What kind of legal advice is Princess getting?

[edhopper]

9. But the DOJ

will never go after her. There is no Law in this Administration.

[Eyeball_Kid]

17. Ah, but there's a statute of limitations. The next AG will have a choice to make. n/t

[dalton99a]

10. It's just another day for the Trump crime family

[gratuitous]

11. It hasn't happened to this White House yet

Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly broken the law on this, and nothing happened to her. Princess Dumbass has nothing to fear.

[Squinch]

13. When Democrats get in there, we have to institute serious penalties for this kind of shit.

In the past that has been enforced by nothing more than "gentleman's agreement."

And we know that doesn't work.

Fines, public community service, some way to pay back the taxpayer for what they are taking from us every damn day.

[AnnieBW]

16. Possibly the first time

that Nepotism Barbie has ever TOUCHED a can of beans!

[Eyeball_Kid]

18. She's about as smart as a can of beans. Give her credit. n/t

[StarfishSaver]

19. Unfortunately, the people charged with enforcing ethics laws have abdicated their responsibility

[IowaGuy]

20. Am I bad for thinking this when I saw Ivankas ad....

[VWolf]

29. LOL I completely forgot about that scene!

The movie was horrendous and did NO justice to the music, but that scene must have been fun to film.

[IowaGuy]

42. I agreee...

Ann Margret was a good sport for going along with the joke on this.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

73. Ken Russell must have been crazy.

I saw it in the theater too. If you weren't stoned when you went in, you were stoned when you came out. By Russell's wild direction. No herb needed. I know it's a Christ allegory but I still have not figured out some of the other stuff.

[sop]

21. Product placement will be another way of making a buck if he manages to steal a second term.

Manufacturers of all manner of goods and services will gain exposure for their products, paying Trump big money to feature them prominently during Part 2 of his presidential reality show, "The Trumps Get Revenge."

[KPN]

23. I'll believe the "serious trouble" when I see it. Been there about a thousand times

in the past almost 4 years. Hasn't she already been here before herself (the bracelet thing)? What happened?

This is getting exhausting. We are just fucked if we don't go after these people if and when we get control of the WH and Senate. If we don't do that, ethics will only be for Democrats and the little people in the future.

[Takket]

64. She has also used a personal email account...

Which was, if memory serves, literally the only thing her father ran on in 2016. Well that and minority bashing

[maddiemom]

81. Did the CARAVAN just evaporate or what?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. She needs to be prosecuted Feb 2021, or else tRump will run her in 2024. . . . nt

[swimboy]

25. Ask Kenan Thompson

Ain’t nothin gonna happen

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. I somehow doubt she's had ethics training.

[Harker]

40. Sure she has.

From Daddy.

She's just following her own job advice... finding something new.

[George II]

31. You should see all the takeoffs of that picture on Twitter.

[Dios Mio]

32. They are always in legal trouble but

nothing comes of it so they have no fear.
(Hatch act , emoluments) etc.

[PCIntern]

33. If one of the Obama ladies had done this

The Republicans would be screaming for impeachment and removal immediately.

[lame54]

34. Because no one will stop them

[HotTeaBag]

35. It'll be forgotten by tomorrow.

Just like everything else this horrendous family does.

[soothsayer]

36. Yes, even if he has to do something outrageous to distract

[HotTeaBag]

37. At this point, these sorts of things come so quickly that he doesn't even need to

do anything to distract from them anymore - if the day ends in a 'y' then there's another Trump family scandal and we've come to just accept it and move on.

It's truly is incredible to see.

[maxrandb]

38. Billy Barr will get right on that

he'll look into this soon...

[Botany]

39. I thought it was a photoshop joke .... but it is real

Link to tweet

Si es Trump, tiene que ser merde.

[Thunderbeast]

60. I thought so too.

This is nearly as snarky as Melania's pea jacket.

[flibbitygiblets]

69. Chelsea Handler responds

Link to tweet

[bluedigger]

41. Ivanka's ethics training consisted of her signing off on a form.

If she even did that. Probably being backdated right now.

[Iggo]

43. Maybe that'll be important when we have a fully functioning government again.

Doesn’t mean shit right now.

[bringthePaine]

44. no consequences nothing to see here, just move along about your business...

[IronLionZion]

45. Ms. Trump has had ethics training.

[Buns_of_Fire]

46. Ivanka: "If it's Goya, it has to be good."

J.M. Smucker Company: "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good."

SNL: "With names like Dog Vomit and Monkey Pus, this stuff has got to be terrific."

[IcyPeas]

47. "serious legal trouble?" ... and her penalty will be?

nada

ethics shmethics

[miyazaki]

65. A lifetime supply of refried beans.

[spanone]

48. It's a crime family....so....what about this guy?

[soothsayer]

49. Now I'm sad I'll never taste that chocolate wafer

But I’ll live

[muriel_volestrangler]

51. Presidents Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho & Donald Goya Trump

'Idiocracy' writer: I never expected my movie 'to become a documentary'



The man behind the 2006 cult sci-fi film “Idiocracy” is lamenting that his fictional movie appears to have become reality.

"I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary,” tweeted screenwriter Etan Cohen in an apparent jab at the 2016 presidential race.

Together with "Beavis & Butt-head" creator Mike Judge, Cohen co-wrote the time-travel comedy. The plot revolves around the misadventures of a man who wakes up in a futuristic America only to discover that everyone around him, including lawmakers and government officials, is an idiot.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/270642-idiocracy-writer-i-never-expected-my-movie-to-become-a

Oh well, at least a good Lincoln Project ad will come from it. You know their target demographic will be appalled at a president doing commercial endorsements.

[Crunchy Frog]

50. He'll pardon all his spawn and their SOs, before he leaves office. If he leaves office.

[Tanuki]

52. She has said that she inherited her moral compass from her dad,

so this isn't much of a surprise.

[Cha]

54. Good.. I hope it actually happens & she gets in real

trouble Over a Can of Stupid BEANS.

[Cha]

55. Still.. the BEANS BLEW BACK IN HER

FUCKING face

[Catherine Vincent]

56. Maybe

But we all know that nothing will happen. That family is above the law.

[BigmanPigman]

57. Ethics?!? In the tRump W House?

Surely you jest. Ask Walter Shaub about the long list of ethics violations. I think he is up to 6,894,662 ethic violations for this year alone. "Ethics, schmethics", says team tRump.

[warmfeet]

59. Serious legal trouble if she were a Democrat.

As a repiglicon, not so much. She will skate, and she knows it.

[Generic Brad]

61. What about the impeached Donald J Trump's endorsement?

That garbage person posed for a photo today with Goya products line up in front of him on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. Is there a crime against him doing that too?

[Squidly]

63. I think the A # 1 reason for this

Is tRump thinks by endorsing Goya he will lock up the Latino vote. Thats just how shallow this POS is.

[cstanleytech]

66. Shaub is 100% in the wrong by saying "no in this administration cares about government ethics".

It is actually no one that remains a Republican after the Republicans in leadership positions like Moscow Mitch have given their consent to everything that Trump has said and done especially after his impeachment when they refused to remove him.

[raging moderate]

67. LA PREFERIDA BRAND IS BETTER, ANYWAY!

If Ivanka can do it, so can I!

[soothsayer]

68. That deranged smile of his

He chose that pic?

[madinmaryland]

70. Bill Barr will be right on this conflict of interest... crickets.

[GoCubsGo]

71. I hope she's not watching Stephen Colbert's show tonight.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[Wawannabe]

72. Uh, surrrrre...

Believe it if it happens. Ain’t gonna hold my breath.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

74. She's no Carol Merrill.

Nor is she Jay with the box.
Yeah, I'm old. Monty Hall was THE BEST! Watched it all the time with my Dad. Hilarious!

[duforsure]

75. This is only making people switch over and vote against them and republicans more

Its really really pissing people off. Very , very stupid thing to do from her.

[oldsoftie]

76. She's done this before. Why is this time different? Nothing will happen to her.

Plus, this close to the election, I dont care. Going after her NOW will just let them use it a an opportunity to again scream, "See! They just wont stop! They're after Ivanka!"
Just vote them out.

[Woodwizard]

79. Just another distraction

Get that on the news instead of the Pandemic, Russian bounties, redirecting medical information from the CDC. All the stuff that should be front and center.

[Goodheart]

80. No, it doesn't.

"Experts", my ass.

[Empowerer]

82. Maybe one day

But not now

[Paladin]

83. As if Little Princess will suffer a single minute's down-time....

...for this or anything else her crime family does.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

84. I'd love for her to be in serious legal trouble

but if anything comes of it, it won't be until Trump, et. al are long out of office.