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Thursday, November 14, 2024

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

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

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

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

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

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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-14 11:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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