Outgoing Ethics Chief Says Trump’s Businesses Are Profiting From His Presidency
“There is an appearance that [Trump’s] businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency,” outgoing ethics head Walter Shaub said.
“There is an appearance that [Trump’s] businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency,” outgoing ethics head Walter Shaub said.
The real risk here is interference by the White House or by [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions’ appointees, not some issue involving WilmerHale.
It’s been a disastrous few days for Trump’s political appointments as they crumble before each committee that questions them.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tom Carper (D-DE) have uncovered an illegal conflict of interest involving President-elect Trump receiving pay from a government contract for his new Washington, DC hotel.
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.
I don’t dislike many people. I hate a few – the boss who fired me with 4 kids at home; Limbaugh; people like that. But I generally don’t dislike most fellow earthlings. There is one crepey-necked creep however, who stands out in the dislike department. I dislike what he says. I dislike what he stands…
John Boehner’s invested in Canada’s tar sand oil companies and then lied about the number of jobs the Keystone pipeline would create in what could be a criminal case of conflict of interest.