Walter M. Straub Jr. is the Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. He delivered a fascinating dissertation on the situational ethics of President-Inept Donald Trump to the Brookings Institute today.
He noted his office negotiated with Secretary of State Nominee, Rex Tillerson the CEO of Exxon. Straub says Tillerson is making a "clean break...forfeiting bonus payments worth millions...he's now free of financial conflicts of interest."
The Tillerson ethics agreement is said to "...serve as a sterling model for what we'd (the Office of Government Ethics) like to see with other nominees. Straub goes on to say "We've has similar success with some of the President-elect's other intended nominees. Some of them haven't quite gotten there yet,...."
Where Straub goes from there about Mr. Trump's situational ethics is most interesting. This is the stuff that feeds a need for impeachment. A President is not the same as a CEO of a private corporation. Trump's less than half-hearted machinations on his tepid attempt to appear that he is inoculated from conflicts of interest, real and perceived are very disturbing.
I commend that you take the time to read this report by an independent public servant, and one who Trump can't fire or replace for the next two years at least.
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment
Anonymous comments are discouraged. If you have something to say, the rest of us have to know who you are