It’s not as if this couldn’t have been predicted.
Trump’s entire past is basically “what are you going to do about it?”
We might as well have voted for Al Capone.
Yep - better not hold hearings until after all disclosures made and conflicts resolved. That’ll be the only chance for the Senate to cross-examine the nominees. Otherwise, Crickets.
MCConnell responded “ethics schmethics, we OWN YOU!!!”
HEY, BRITS!!!
BETTER GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR RECORDS!
WAS BREXIT A PUTIN PLOY?
President Capone is being enabled by his GOP hoods.
…you got anything like this for Trump?
use THIS Italian, you’ll be more accurate…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
In a statement released today responding to the Government Ethics Office, the Senate GOP stated: “Ethics? We don’t need any stinking ethics.”
Anyone who doesn’t see this as intentional and deliberate rigging of the system is in an irreversible coma—or a practicing Republican.
Or both, which is often the case.
The Republican Party and the Trump campaign have ushered us into a post-fact, post-truth era. Clearly, they are now also leading us into a post-ethics world. Are we to follow them like lemmings off this ethical cliff and into the abyss? It has been obvious for quite some time that many, if not most Republican leaders, and especially the team of ethically bankrupt sycophants surrounding Trump, including his adult children, are devoid of any understanding of their responsibilities to provide sound, thoughtful, responsible and principled leadership for our country. Clearly the Electoral College failed to exercise their responsibilities as described by Alexander Hamilton (Federalist #68) to reject the election of Trump as singularly unqualified and unfit for the office of President. Is the Government Ethics Office in a position to sue for an injunction to block the travesty that is about to happen on January 20?
I doubt it, but it is worth considering.
Pointless. Capone was a killer, not a philanthropist.
But at least Caligula’s madness wasn’t apparent before he came to power.
Uh I’m not English but Yes yes it was.
Putin backed Farage financially. He backed the entire Brexit.
Russian trolldom may be much more pervasive than first imagined…
The Digg conspirators taught them something, I would wager.
Unless, of course, they were even at it back then…
Now I am beginning to wonder if Brietbart may not be deeply infected.
Trump fails to pay contractors. Well what’s the difference between that and vetting nominees? I mean who needs to be vetted anyway?
Not sure what kind of power the OCE has but he was appointed in 2013. They serve five-year terms.
Schumer: “The Office of Government Ethics letter makes crystal-clear that the transition team’s collusion with Senate Republicans to jam through these Cabinet nominees before they’ve been thoroughly vetted is unprecedented,”
OK, Democrats (and media) - stop using words and phrases like “unprecedented” and “beyond the pale” and “crystal clear,” etc. Some low-info people think that might be a good thing. Use words that adequately describe the situation and that people understand for this kind of thing: “crooked, rigged, criminal, anti-American, shady, raw deal, dangerous, bogus, a big con job, beyond-totally-fucked-up …”
Roy Cohn
I don’t blame McConnell for wanting to hurry through this ordeal. It’s going to be the confirmation-hearing equivalent of cops going through the house of a serial murderer who likes to keep souvenirs.
FOX: All of Trump’s cabinet has been personally handpicked by Putin. Only commie liberals are complaining for partisan reasons.