Discussion: White House Has Granted Ethics Waivers To 17 Staffers

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Just like all pipelines have to be made with US steel. Except for every pipeline that’s under construction.

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So did they hire from the top of the cess pool or the bottom first?

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Break it up now, come on, break it up. Nothing to see here. Move alone, move along.

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This is why Donald Trump promised to drain the Washington Swamp: To get to the monsters inhabiting its deepest, darkest depths…

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“White House Granted Ethics Waivers To 17 Staffers, Including Conway, Priebus”

Ethics? Ethics? We don’t need no steenkin’ ethics!

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We mean everything we say, with few exceptions.

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He said he’d drain the swamp - he didn’t say what he’d refill it with.

Clearly, volumes of untreated sewage.

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Lock up the swamp!!!

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If this is the “A team”, I’m going to hate to see who he brings on as they resign and/or get imprisoned.

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By “ethics waiver” they mean they needn’t have any. And they don’t. The system works! Like a fine-tuned machine.

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I didn’t know they had 17 staffers.

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Exactly how corrupt is this Trump bunch ???
They must be pretty bad to have Trump the on Con trying to give them cover!

Name one person in the WH who is decent, ethical, honorable. ONE??? Just one???

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I’m struggling with context here. How many similar waivers did the Obama administration grant? GWB? Clinton?

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Hmm, as I recall, the ethics people forced the Trump people to release the number of waivers, and the names. Nice spin to claim they did so voluntarily, they did not.

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Ahhhhh, Yes! Enabling corruption will definitely make America great again. Why, we’re looking more and more like the Deep Red Russian State all the time! Darth Putin must be so happy.

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This is just the waivers issued to white house staffers. There are plenty more waivers that have been issued to appointees and people hired at executive agencies. (And we don’t really know that this is all the waivers issue to white house staffers, of course.)

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Wait, Kellyanne’s previous clients still want her? Talk about a bunch of dolts.

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Wait, Kellyanne actually had previous clients??? WTF??? Who?!? WHY???

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Thanks very much. So it’s not unheard of but the scale of it may turn out to be exceptional.

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