Government ethics chief blasts Trump business plan

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

The head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Wednesday slammed President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to separate himself from his business interests, calling it “wholly inadequate” in resolving potential conflicts of interest.

“The plan the [president-elect] has announced doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the last four decades have met,” OGE Director Walter Shaub said during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Shaub, an Obama appointee, said the only way for Trump to avoid conflicts between his business empire and the presidency is to sell his assets and place them in a blind trust.

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Shaub recognized divesting himself from his business holdings “could be costly” for Trump, but called it a necessary step for any president to take.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/313864-government-ethics-chief-blasts-trump-business-plan

[Generator]

1. But his Russian loving law firm said it's okay!

[ProudLib72]

2. But, but,

Newt said he was a special case and the rules didn't apply.

[keithbvadu2]

3. His blind trust is his WH staff - his children advisors/counselors.

[keithbvadu2]

4. He can easily count the number of days until his firing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. 'wholly inadequate' describes all of Trump's plans, and Trump himself

Trump has to decide: does he want to hang on to, and leave to his children, obscene amounts of money, and screw the USA, or behave like a decent American, and just have and leave ridiculous amounts of money? All his (and their) history points to the 'obscene'/'screwing' options.

[hollowdweller]

6. I was only 17 at the time

But seems I remember some stuff about Jimmy Carter, who had a family business being in the news when I was a kid. Wasn't there also something else about his brother being the namesake for Billy Beer?

Far as I can remember that was the nearest thing any candidate has had to Trump.

How did Carter handle it? I can't remember.

[Joe Nation]

7. I am reminded of these lyrics....