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....

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

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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].
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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. ...

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. ...

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