Really, elites like Wilbur Ross can't be held to the same standards as the mere lumpen. Wealth creators like him should be considered immune to ethics considerations.
The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) said in a letter made public Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had yet again claimed to sell a stock when in fact he hadn’t done so, contrary to an ethics pledge he made upon joining the Trump administration. As a result, the office’s director wrote, Ross’ latest financial disclosure was not certified.
“On July 12, 2018, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) sent Secretary Ross a letter expressing concern over the errors on his financial disclosure forms and his failure to comply with his ethics compliance agreements,” OGE Director Emory A. Rounds III, a Trump appointee, wrote to the Commerce Secretary’s designated agency ethics official on Friday in a letter made public Tuesday. (OGE warned Ross in July that his “various omissions and inaccurate statements” in financial forms “created the potential for a serious criminal violation.”)
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee and a past critic of Ross’ financial entanglements, told TPM in a statement Tuesday: “Trump’s own ethics watchdog today confirmed that Secretary Ross violated his ethics agreement and federal ethics laws by lying about stock holdings he was supposed to divest.”
“Ross lied repeatedly, for years, about selling off stocks that posed a conflict of interest,” Wyden continued. “Ross continues to show open disdain for the most basic checks on corruption.”
c'mon, certainly the Hon Secretary Ross is not corrupt, I myself would guess he's a paragon of vertue and honesty when compared to most of the government staff appointed by frump, not to mention comparing him with the Rump itself.
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This is what happens when corruption is considered the normal way of life. Everything is blurred. What are his children doing while all this is going on? Son-in-law making a tour of the Middle East? What is that for? His family is so corrupt the only place they belong is prison for a long time.
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"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka
Trump announces plan to push for decriminalization of homosexuality on a global scale.
Response from the Left: It's because he's racist.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
Glad you posted that - it shows what a scumbag McCabe was. McCabe's own words support what I've been saying for the last 2 years.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
Forty Two wrote:Trump announces plan to push for decriminalization of homosexuality on a global scale.
Response from the Left: It's because he's racist.
That's a positive position for him to take. It costs him nothing and it sends a clear message of principle and intent both at home and abroad. It also doesn't offset his less than positive positions though.
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I'd love to see what that guy considers a "verifiable truth."
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
It's a process. We'll get Trump for racketeering yet. As head of his mafia.
On November 18, 2016, Donald Trump agreed to pay approximately $25M to settle 2 class actions and Schneiderman’s suit while not admitting to any wrongdoing. But a pattern of illegal activity evidenced by 5,000 people defrauded by the same scheme could be prosecuted as racketeering notwithstanding the civil settlement.
Trump-related investigations appear to be suitable for consolidation into one RICO investigation that could ultimately seize Trump assets and cast the president as the kingpin at the head of a criminal organization.
Meanwhile, Constitution fails at outlining how a president has to behave when being investigated for his bribery and election racketeering: NYT: Trump asked Whitaker if he could put prosecutor in charge of Cohen probe!
Those who mindlessly repeat Trump talking points about his fantasy border fortifications will want to avoid reading a cogent analysis of their failure written by somebody who was in charge of the US security apparatus for four years. Shield your precious eyes from the heresy!
In its landmark report condemning the U.S. government’s failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the 9/11 Commission noted that the “most important failure was one of imagination.” President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund a border wall may go down as the opposite: the triumph of one man’s imagination over reality.
Trump’s vision of the southern border as a lawless region teeming with immigrants, gangs, drug dealers, gun runners, human traffickers and terrorists trying to burst through and harm the U.S. and its citizens underlies his insistence on a wall as the sine qua non of homeland security. This approach amounts to a willful misreading of the true threat landscape facing the U.S. nearly two decades after the 9/11 attacks.
Here are the facts about the 1,933-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico: illegal crossings are the lowest they’ve been in decades. Technologies like sensors and drones are being deployed to enhance the capabilities of the Border Patrol and are receiving increased funding in the recently signed appropriations bill. And all but around 50 miles of border barriers identified by experts as necessary have already been constructed. The small remainder crosses either private land or lands held by sovereign Indian nations, making their suitability for barrier construction doubtful.
The supposed national emergency at the southern border also makes little sense in the post-9/11 era, in which our adversaries can infiltrate our society and our institutions through digital networks, armed Americans kill more Americans through acts of mass violence than ISIS does, and the emergent ravages of climate change threaten every community in the U.S.
By declaring a national emergency to fund a border wall, Trump is diverting financial and military resources and the attention of policymakers to prepare for threats that are far more real, pervasive and deadly. He also is impeding the public’s ability to understand the likelihood of threats against which they need to protect themselves.
