Discussion: Ethics Office: We ‘Lost Contact’ With Trump Team Over Conflicts Of Interest

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This would have been something seen in The Onion about a year ago.

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Lock them up!

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two more days ya’ll

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They did, right? No effect.

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No idea…that was clearly ‘borderline’ snark on her part.

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Prosecute before he declares martial law!

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the OGE only considers a trust blind if its underlying assets have “been sold off” and the office plays a key role in determining whether potential trustees can be considered independent.

Trump setting up the lesser known “covering up my eyes with my hands and I promise not to peek through my fingers” trust.

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“Lost contact”? That’s an awkward turn of phrase. Is that code for they won’t answer our phone calls, won’t answer the door when we come knocking, and are avoiding us like we have cooties?

Suggest you get one of these:

The Trump Cootie Catcher.

Fill in the numbers with your questions and then have him pick one. Now show him the fucking answer and make sure he gets it. Then, no one can accuse you of not trying to deal with this Man-Child on his level.

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OGE Director: “We seem to have lost contact with the Trump-Pence transition since the election.”

Donald J. Trump: The Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 of Government Ethics.

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“Ethics? We ain’t got no ethics. We don’t need no ethics. I DON’T HAVE TO SHOW YOU ANY STINKIN’ ETHICS!”

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How long before the FOIA is on the chopping block, I wonder?

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Trump team lost contact with ethics… Well, we can stop there I guess.

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To be fair to the Trump Transition Team, they expected the OGE to have been dissolved by the new GOP rules for Congress…

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This is like one of those long water park slides at an amusement park pool. Only now there is a cess pool at the bottom.

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Or the terraforming colony in “Aliens”.

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Dare I say this “raises shadows.” If President Elect Hillary were doing this, the entire main stream media would be demanding her resignation. Even Josh would be taking her to task. But with Trump, its barely a mention. Even TPM is normalizing this by claiming Trump is stonewalling the Ethics office “at times.” What part of “completely lost all contact” do you interpret as only stonewalling “at times?”

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Astigmatism trust

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