Discussion: Government Ethics Director, A Frequent Trump Critic, Resigns Six Months Early

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Government Ethics Director, A Frequent Trump Critic, Resigns Six Months Early Government Ethics Director, A Frequent Trump Critic, Resigns Six Months Early Back to article
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Trump: My family gains more government and much more freedom.

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So…who appoints the NEXT Director? The WH? McConnell? Is the ‘fix’ in? No more ethics?

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Schaub could have stuck it out for six more months, making a stink. That’s something.

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He should have stuck it out, exposed every ethical violation he could and never kept quiet about any of it. Yes, it would be miserable dealing with the Drumpf Crime Family and its Rotten Regime, but at least he could have made every effort to expose the unethical tsunami that exists. And, he at least could have left by saying something about how overwhelmingly unethical so many things are that he simply couldn’t deal with the work load.

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After reading his resignation letter, there’s a lot there that was left unsaid. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it seems to be dripping with disgust. (He never calls the president by name; he doesn’t mention being proud of his work, only the people he worked with.)

It appears that Schaub is a man of integrity who felt he couldn’t continue in this role given the way the current president runs roughshod over the constitution and over ethical behavior in general.

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Trying to perform in a job with such crushing cognitive dissonance, showing up to work every day knowing your efforts are futile or even hypocritical, can be immensely dispiriting. Think late USSR. Can’t blame him for leaving.

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Agree 100%. To the folks who are writing that he should have “stuck it out” for the next six months: We always wonder why people didn’t resign when faced with unethical behavior. And now you’re asking him to do otherwise? I think he’s honorable.

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Yes, I’m sure his job was horrible, but does he think things will be better with a replacement from the White House? Meh, it doesn’t matter in the end as long as the GOP has both houses.

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I hear you, but now he’s going to be working as a lawyer in the field of ethics reform. He may actually have more ability to do good in that capacity.

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Assumes facts not in evidence.

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Given the hiring outcomes to date, Donnie will pick someone* who will demand the staff do something illegal, get caught by the press, and the scandal will be added to the Mt. Everest of abuses of power.

*probably the man/woman who catered Jarvanka’s wedding

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This should be a heads-up to all the honest folks working for this administration. Get a new job and get out before the stink rubs off. IMO, the Ethics Director did the right thing. He was going to be at war with the Oval Office for the next 6 mos. -not a healthy work atmosphere.

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He probably knows which rocks to turn over, under which live the worms - and it may be more effective to do from the outside.

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So he took a better job…ok then.

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Time to take up a position outside the tent, and piss inwards. I assume he is not bound by non-disclosure agreements, and will have many interesting things to say, now that he is unbound.

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Though Trump’s stinks were far more larger than Shaub’s, the latter made a lot of noise about the former’s excesses.

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That’s too bad–He seemed like a good guy and a dedicated public servant. But in Trump’s DC that means nothing.

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Trump can humiliate Chris Christie some more and terrify the rest of us by offering the post to America’s Favorite Beach Goer.

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I don’t know that they’ve being doing anything that’s hypocritical. Futile? Yes.

They’ve constantly been fighting with this administration, no one is punished, they don’t follow any ethical rules, if Kellyanne went on Fox and promoted Ivanka’s products for the next week nothing would happen to her. Schaub would be in a rage and demand that action be taken, and they’d lightly reprimand her and keep doing what they’re doing. And the ethics violations that are going on are far more serious than what Conway did.

It’s impossible to hold these people to task because there are literally dozens of stories that need to be reported on each week. Normally a serious ethical violation would be a big deal for a week, now its lost in page 12 or Chris Hayes D-Block, if that.

Long story short, Trump is defining deviancy down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/11/23/how-trump-is-defining-deviancy-down-in-presidential-politics/?utm_term=.1101750f8509

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