White House Ethics Chief Resigns And Sugges

[Mainecat]

White House Ethics Chief Resigns And Suggests Trump Places Personal Gain Above Constitution

By Jason Easley on Thu, Jul 6th, 2017 at 1:24 pm

White House ethics chief Walter Shaub is resigning later this month, and while he says that he wasn't pushed out by Trump, Shaub makes it clear in his resignation letter that he views this administration as placing profiting off of the presidency above all else.

 

White House ethics chief Walter Shaub is resigning later this month, and while he says that he wasn’t pushed out by Trump, Shaub makes it clear in his resignation letter that he views this administration as placing profiting off of the presidency above all else.

The Washington Post reported, “In an interview, Shaub said he was not leaving under pressure, adding that no one in the White House or the administration pushed him to leave. But the ethics chief said he felt that he had reached the limit of what he could achieve in this administration, within the current ethics framework.”

In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Shaub via the Campaign Legal Center made it clear that there are problems within the Trump administration, “I have had the honor and privilege of serving the American public at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics under three presidents – George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. In working with the current administration, it has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program. I look forward to working toward that aim at Campaign Legal Center, as well as working on ethics reforms at all levels of government.”

The White House is so unethical that Shaub resigned in the hopes of being able to push for more reform from outside of the Office of Government Ethics. Trump is deeply conflicted, and with the Russia scandal soaking up the headlines, the fact that the Trump family has been rampantly profiting off of the presidency has been somewhat overlooked.

The Shaub resignation is a big alarm bell that signals that there is a vast level of corruption within the Trump administration. Donald Trump and his family are abusing the presidency for personal enrichment. Shaub’s resignation should be a big story, and hopefully, it will bring the Trump Emoluments Clause violations the attention that they deserve.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/07/06/white-house-ethics-chief-resigns-suggests-trump-places-personal-gain-constitution.html

[Sleepr2]

Poor McLiar. 😂

[racinfarmer]

Didn't we cover this like a half dozen times yesterday?

[Zambroski]

Poor MC...follows a hack internet paper around owned and authored by a flaming liberal who lifts info from WAPO and adds his own spin.

 

[Mainecat]

10 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

Didn't we cover this like a half dozen times yesterday?

No

[Snake]

“The current situation has made it clear that the ethics program needs to be stronger than it is. At the Campaign Legal Center, I’ll have more freedom to push for reform. I’ll also be broadening my focus to include ethics issues at all levels of government.”

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535781749/ethics-office-director-walter-shaub-resigns-saying-rules-need-to-be-tougher

The irony of an "Ethics Czar".... working for Soros.

 

As IRS efforts targeting politically-conservative groups gained momentum, George Soros-funded liberal groups repeatedly called on the IRS to investigate conservative nonprofit organizations.

While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year - following the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The talking points of these groups then bounced around a carefully created progressive "echo chamber," until they eventually made their way into established media outlets. Key IRS policy changes about how it investigated conservative groups took place soon after it received three separate letters sent by Soros-funded liberal organizations.

Several Soros-funded groups including the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and Alternet have worked to pressure the IRS to target conservative nonprofit groups. The subsequent IRS investigation flagged more than 100 tea party-related applications for higher scrutiny, including applications that included the words "Tea Party" and "patriot."

The IRS scandal can be traced back to a series of letters that the liberal groups Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy 21 sent to the IRS back in 2010 and 2011. Both groups were funded by George's Soros's Open Society Foundations. The CLC received $677,000 and Democracy 21 got $365,000 from the Soros-backed foundation, according to the Foundation's 990 tax forms.

The letters specifically targeted conservative Super PACs like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, asking the IRS to scrutinize them more thoroughly to determine whether or not they should retain their tax-exempt status.

On Oct. 5, 2010, when the first letter was sent to the IRS, calling specifically for the agency to "investigate" Crossroads GPS. The letter claimed Crossroads was "impermissibly using its tax status to spend tens of millions of dollars in the 2010 congressional races while hiding the donors funding these expenditures from the American people." Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer wrote a blog post for the liberal Huffington Post to promote it, and the effort to get the media to notice the anti-conservative campaign began.

On June 27, 2011, a second letter by the CLC and Democracy 21 complained about enforcement of 501(c)(4) tax regulations, asking "that the IRS issue new regulations that better enforce the law." Two days later, an IRS senior agency official was briefed on a new policy targeting groups which "criticize how the country is being run," according to a Washington Post story. According to the Post, this policy was later revised.

A third letter by the CLC and Democracy 21, on Sept 28, 2011, got media traction. The letter showed the escalation of the left's complaint about 501(c)(4) groups. It challenged "the eligibility of four organizations engaged in campaign activity to be treated as 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations." The four organizations included Crossroads GPS, Priorities USA, American Action Network and Americans Elect.

The Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity ($2,716,328) published a "study" on 501(c)(4) groups, on October 31, which drew heavily from, and referenced, the CLC and Democracy 21. The Center for Public Integrity has strong media connections and boasts an advisory board that includes Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News, and Michele Norris, an NPR host, as well as a board of directors with such prominent names as Huffington Post CEO Arianna Huffington, Steve Kroft of CBS News's "60 Minutes" and Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist).

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/mike-ciandella/soros-gave-61-million-groups-linked-pressure-irs-target-conservative-nonprofits

[Snake]

11 hours ago, Mainecat said:

White House Ethics Chief Resigns And Suggests Trump Places Personal Gain Above Constitution

By Jason Easley on Thu, Jul 6th, 2017 at 1:24 pm

White House ethics chief Walter Shaub is resigning later this month, and while he says that he wasn't pushed out by Trump, Shaub makes it clear in his resignation letter that he views this administration as placing profiting off of the presidency above all else.

 

White House ethics chief Walter Shaub is resigning later this month, and while he says that he wasn’t pushed out by Trump, Shaub makes it clear in his resignation letter that he views this administration as placing profiting off of the presidency above all else.

The Washington Post reported, “In an interview, Shaub said he was not leaving under pressure, adding that no one in the White House or the administration pushed him to leave. But the ethics chief said he felt that he had reached the limit of what he could achieve in this administration, within the current ethics framework.”

In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Shaub via the Campaign Legal Center made it clear that there are problems within the Trump administration, “I have had the honor and privilege of serving the American public at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics under three presidents – George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. In working with the current administration, it has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program. I look forward to working toward that aim at Campaign Legal Center, as well as working on ethics reforms at all levels of government.”

The White House is so unethical that Shaub resigned in the hopes of being able to push for more reform from outside of the Office of Government Ethics. Trump is deeply conflicted, and with the Russia scandal soaking up the headlines, the fact that the Trump family has been rampantly profiting off of the presidency has been somewhat overlooked.

The Shaub resignation is a big alarm bell that signals that there is a vast level of corruption within the Trump administration. Donald Trump and his family are abusing the presidency for personal enrichment. Shaub’s resignation should be a big story, and hopefully, it will bring the Trump Emoluments Clause violations the attention that they deserve.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/07/06/white-house-ethics-chief-resigns-suggests-trump-places-personal-gain-constitution.html

 

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

No

[Zambroski]

2 minutes ago, Snake said:

 

I actually take offense that you are comparing his intellect to that of a cat's.  Can you do that GIF with a worm or roach?