Thursday, November 14, 2024

Warren: Trump Transition 'already Breaking the Law'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that President elect-Trump "and his transition team are already breaking" a law on presidential transition.

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... "Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law," Warren wrote in a post on the social platform X. "I would know because I wrote the law. Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement."

"This is what illegal corruption looks like," she added.

Warren was responding to a Saturday report from CNN that said a conflict of interest pledge included in the Presidential Transition Act was, in part, keeping multiple transition agreements from being submitted by the president-elect's team to the Biden administration.

The Presidential Transition Act instructs candidates from major parties to join in memorandums of understanding with the current president as well as the General Services Administration so staff may get their hands on relevant resources such as facilities, documents, executive branch employees and national security information in the period between the election and the inauguration. Those agreements also feature an ethics plan. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-13 02:16 PM

www.ibtimes.com

... The Presidential Transition Act was amended in 2019 to require candidates to post an ethics plan before the election to "include information on how eligible presidential candidates will address their own conflicts of interest during a presidential term," the report said.

The changes were prompted because of ethical problems in Trump's first administration.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington identified 3,400 conflicts of interest related to Trump in his first term....


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-13 02:19 PM

S.394 - Presidential Transition Enhancement Act of 2019
www.congress.gov

...
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] (Introduced 02/07/2019)

08/01/2019 Senate Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5318-5320; text: CR S5319-5320)

02/05/2020 House On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H825-826)

03/03/2020 Signed by President [Trump].
...




#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-13 02:22 PM

Ethics. From that fat, stupid, ------- clown.
Ok.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-13 06:59 PM

What's anybody going to do about it? Impeach him?

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-11-14 10:53 AM

What's anybody going to do about it?

So far they have chosen to angrily tweet about it. Spinless fools.

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2024-11-14 10:58 AM

wow, that's a reach. only been 9 days since the election

#7 | Posted by Maverick at 2024-11-14 11:28 AM

wow, that's a reach. only been 9 days since the election

#7 | Posted by Maverick a

Yeah, why listen to the author of the law.

Magat scum are disgusting morons.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-14 11:31 AM

Law?? What law?? Trumpers don't believe in the law.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-14 11:39 AM

@#7 ... wow, that's a reach. only been 9 days since the election ...

Is it really a reach?

Parts of the law require action before Election Day.

Trump campaign's failure to enter into transition agreements (October 23, 2024)
thehill.com

... The Presidential Transition Act directs major party candidates to enter into memorandums of understanding (MOU) with the sitting president and General Services Administration (GSA) so staff can receive relevant resources " including executive branch employees, facilities, documents and national security information -- during the months between the election and the inauguration. The agreements also include an ethics plan.

According to Raskin, Trump's campaign has not yet signed an MOU with the GSA, which was due on Sept. 1, or with President Biden, the incumbent president, which was due on Oct. 1.

The Harris campaign has entered into both agreements, according to Raskin. ...

[emphasis mine]

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-14 12:00 PM

When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh.

#11 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-11-14 12:52 PM

When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh.

#11 | POSTED BY MSG

That is a typical response from someone who doesn't understand what people are talking about

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-14 12:57 PM

Congress should investigate whether Trump, Musk or anyone else in Trump's circle was stocking on dogecoin before the announcement was made.

#13 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-11-14 12:57 PM

@#11 ... When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh. ...

In this instance, the Democratic candidate complied with the requirements of the ethics law that Pres-elect signed during his first term (see #3).

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-14 01:23 PM

A sampling from Pres-elect Trump's first term...

Ethics Be Damned (2018)
www.apmreports.org

... More than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct.

A growing chorus of ethics officials, including the acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, warns that President Trump's conduct related to his business interests is causing a dangerously negative public perception of the nation's ethics system.

"These are perilous times," said David Apol, acting director of the Office of Government Ethics. His comments came in a rare interview earlier this month that happened to be the same day President Trump nominated someone to replace him.
Roberts in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2017. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images

Apol worries that the president's decision to not divest from his sprawling business holdings and the scandals involving Trump's Cabinet are causing public distrust in the federal government.

"When the head of your organization, the head of your government says these rules aren't important enough for me to comply with, that makes the program challenging. And that changes the relationship, the way people view the ethics program," he said. ...

An APM Reports review of news coverage, ethics agreements and government financial disclosure forms has found that more than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct. ...


See the article for the list.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-14 02:41 PM

so Pocahontas came up with this did she ?

same liar that's ignorant of facts but opens her pie hole anyway.....

"Liz Warren tried to talk smack about having 2 people to head up department to cut waste...BOGE

Pocahontas didn't know they're not taking any money to do this.....and neither are the people

they're gonna use."

leftists can;t help running their lying stupid effing mouths before they start talking....

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-15 01:31 PM

When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh.

#11 | Posted by MSgt

"accusations are confessions"...

the premier product of projection / 2 faced liars.

#17 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-15 01:34 PM

leftists can;t help running their lying stupid effing mouths before they start talking....

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan

oh but i"m sure she's being honest about this .......wink wink.

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-15 01:35 PM

Who is going to stop him, Johnson in the House? HA.
The feckless Senate? double ha.
The Supreme Court, packed with his lapdogs? hell nah.

He will do anything he wants and nothing can stop him.
We are now "Russia lite," or a bigger Hungary, pick your comparison.

#19 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-11-15 01:48 PM

here in paradise it's much too pleasant
to stay inside reading your schitte.

------have a nice weekend....all of you-----------

with more payback coming next week....you're gonna need the rest.

#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-15 01:53 PM

When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh.

#11 | Posted by MSgt

Anyone has more ethics than the cult of a rapist psychopath trust fund russian puppet traitor coup attempting con man.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-15 02:04 PM

I gotta say ... . MAGAts are the least gracious "winners" I have ever witnessed. The only analogy that comes to mind are immature children on an elementary school playground.

#22 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-11-15 02:12 PM

MAGAts are the least gracious "winners" I have ever witnessed.

It's a shame what they did to the nooner.

RIP the Nooner.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-15 02:16 PM

When I hear/see dems talking about ethics, all I can do is laugh.
#11 | POSTED BY MSG

You voted for a criminal rapist because Facebook memes told you to.

Time for you to retire, mush brains.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-15 02:19 PM

I gotta say ... . MAGAts are the least gracious "winners" I have ever witnessed. The only analogy that comes to mind are immature children on an elementary school playground.

#22 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-11-15 02:12 PM | Reply

They're worse losers. You won't see democrats stampeding the Capitol and smearing feces on the walls.

#25 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-15 02:45 PM

This stupid ------- bimbo bitch can ---- right off

#26 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-11-15 09:18 PM

@#26 . ... This stupid ---- bimbo bitch can f*** right off ...

OK, I have to ask...

Who is your comment referring to?


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-15 09:20 PM

It seems that Trump's going to use his next administration to rescue Putin's butt from the quagmire of Putin's stupid aggression vs Ukraine. (Doubt that? See this; www.youtube.com)

Why would Trump save Putin vs Ukraine? Trump's not a brilliant American patriot. He's a calculating transaction-focused gamer. He thinks alliances are great as long as he sees the clear-short term benefit (primarily to him). For Saudi Arabia, it's because the Prince invested $2 billion in Jared's LBO firm. For Russia, its because Putin's bank has lent Trump Inc. hundreds of millions that is still on the books. And because Trump hates Zelensky because Zelensky did not throw Biden's son under the bus and because Trump got impeached as a result of a "perfect" conversation with Zelensky.

So, here's another question. Why is Trump choosing not just unprepared cabinet leaders, but leaders who will be toxic to the government agencies and who as a whole will wreck those agencies and America's National Security Council?

Putin's been spending $ and FSB efforts to destabilize democracies & NATO. Putin's regime has helped "populist" autocratic movements thrive in Hungary & Slovakia and increasingly contributes to help increasingly stronger autocratic-leaning "populist" movements in Germany, France, and Netherlands. (And America?) Why? Go figure

The US Senate's GOP members need to dig deeper into why would their consenting to the creation of an Executive Branch Cabinet (and especially the next National Security Council) nearly fully created to help America's enemy Putin and to create chaos across America's institutions and our alliances with liberal democracies in NATO and around the world be in America's best interest? Is it in America's best interest, or would those senators rather sell out what moral courage they have and the nation just to avoid Trump's ire?

Where is the national interest in the Cabinet & National Security Council that Trump is building? His ingredients are a suicidal recipe for our national security and for Anerica's Constitution.

If Congress gives its consent to Trump's Cabinet picks "recipe", it will create chaos throughout our national intelligence and national defense establishments.

Just ask any former SECDEF or FBI or counter intel agency leader about their feelings about Trump's proposed Cabinet's intent. They'll agree, the creation as a whole will be more destructive than the sum of its parts. Beware.

#28 | Posted by Augustine at 2024-11-16 06:38 AM

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