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Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

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The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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Ethics aren't required in the Trump administration. Sessions just perjured himself in front of Congress. If Trump doesn't fire him it will be a tacit acceptance of perjury.
 
Ethics might be too PC for that group.

If their goal is to bring on the "Fourth Turning" aka fascism, then why would they need ethics?
 
I guess the Trump Administration could not come up with a PC way to pu**y grab.
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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I honestly expect that if Sessions is forced to resign, no small number of Democrats will hang their heads in shame.
 
Given CNN's recent track record of leaving out certain details which tend to make their versions of the story a non-story, I think I'll take this one with a grain of salt.
 
You guys are looking at this all wrong. The training was going to cost like a million bucks. (no way, really?) So this was just a budget consideration and had nothing to do with the complete lack of experience in department management. They figured they could sort it out as they went. Any business faced with a similar situation would have made the same decision.
 
Jack Fabulous said:
Given CNN's recent track record of leaving out certain details which tend to make their versions of the story a non-story, I think I'll take this one with a grain of salt.
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How about Politico?
 
According to a CBS affiliate, the Government Services Administration sent out a "request for quote" letter soliciting contracts on November 4th, 2016:

The Trump administration said Thursday that the White House Counsel’s office did provide political appointees and executive branch staff ethics training when they came into office.

“Required trainings, including ethics, were provided to appointees by in-house counsels prior to assuming office,” said Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokeswoman. “It was a requirement for everyone. In-house counsel has been taking it very seriously from the beginning.”

Grisham noted that White House Counsel Don McGahn “ramped up an experienced compliance team” in the early days of the Trump administration so that “all necessary training could be provided without paying for outside contractors." Why Trump transition team canceled ethics training session | WTVR.com
 
nota bene said:
According to a CBS affiliate, the Government Services Administration sent out a "request for quote" letter soliciting contracts on November 4th, 2016:

The Trump administration said Thursday that the White House Counsel’s office did provide political appointees and executive branch staff ethics training when they came into office.

“Required trainings, including ethics, were provided to appointees by in-house counsels prior to assuming office,” said Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokeswoman. “It was a requirement for everyone. In-house counsel has been taking it very seriously from the beginning.”

Grisham noted that White House Counsel Don McGahn “ramped up an experienced compliance team” in the early days of the Trump administration so that “all necessary training could be provided without paying for outside contractors." Why Trump transition team canceled ethics training session | WTVR.com
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Telling the whole story, especially if it lessens the harm done to the GOP, is not at the top of the list for the press, ever since November 9th, 2016. From the report in your link, it's obvious that POLITICO and CNN didn't want the entire story to be told. I wonder why that would be?
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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Maybe they were afraid that the whole building where the ethics program was to be held in, might burst into flames like when the devil touches the bible :)
 
Beaudreaux said:
Telling the whole story, especially if it lessens the harm done to the GOP, is not at the top of the list for the press, ever since November 9th, 2016. From the report in your link, it's obvious that POLITICO and CNN didn't want the entire story to be told. I wonder why that would be?
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The Trump administration said Thursday that the White House Counsel’s office did provide political appointees and executive branch staff ethics training when they came into office.

“Required trainings, including ethics, were provided to appointees by in-house counsels prior to assuming office,” said Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokeswoman. “It was a requirement for everyone. In-house counsel has been taking it very seriously from the beginning.”

Grisham noted that White House Counsel Don McGahn “ramped up an experienced compliance team” in the early days of the Trump administration so that “all necessary training could be provided without paying for outside contractors."


So they got the training and saved the taxpayers a million. I'm good with that.
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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I am sitting here wondering if eggs are good for the skin.
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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I see, so people need some government certified "ethics training", which probably costs the taxpayers millions of dollars, to learn how to be ethical? Attention libs, normal thinking adults know right from wrong without wasting taxpayer dollars. Libs never met a wasteful government program they didn't want to sleep with. :roll:
 
Beaudreaux said:
Telling the whole story, especially if it lessens the harm done to the GOP, is not at the top of the list for the press, ever since November 9th, 2016. From the report in your link, it's obvious that POLITICO and CNN didn't want the entire story to be told. I wonder why that would be?
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Because they're unethical scumbags? :roll:

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countryboy said:
I see, so people need some government certified "ethics training", which probably costs the taxpayers millions of dollars, to learn how to be ethical? Attention libs, normal thinking adults know right from wrong without wasting taxpayer dollars. Libs never met a wasteful government program they didn't want to sleep with. :roll:
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LOL... now the money angle from the fiscally concerned (only when it suits them) crowd. He could just not go to Mara Largo for one weekend and pay for many of these classes. But that taxpayer money doesn't matter to you for some reason.
 
poweRob said:
LOL... now the money angle from the fiscally concerned (only when it suits them) crowd. He could just not go to Mara Largo for one weekend and pay for many of these classes. But that taxpayer money doesn't matter to you for some reason.
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Lib hypocrisy evidently knows no bounds.
 
Jack Fabulous said:
Given CNN's recent track record of leaving out certain details which tend to make their versions of the story a non-story, I think I'll take this one with a grain of salt.
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Sessions just said in his presser yesterday that Trump and Spicer aren't familiar with ethics rules. And obviously Conway isn't.
 
countryboy said:
Lib hypocrisy evidently knows no bounds.
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Wait a second... i pointed out your hypocrisy and you are calling me the hypocrit? :lol:

You are even hypocritical about your own hypocrisy.
 
countryboy said:
I see, so people need some government certified "ethics training", which probably costs the taxpayers millions of dollars, to learn how to be ethical? Attention libs, normal thinking adults know right from wrong without wasting taxpayer dollars. Libs never met a wasteful government program they didn't want to sleep with. :roll:
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These people need exactly that, yes.
 
holbritter said:
Source please?
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Sessions:
QUESTION: The White House press secretary and the president himself both said today that they think you should not recuse yourself from these investigations. (inaudible)

SESSIONS: I did share with White House counsel, and my staff has, that I intend to recuse myself this afternoon. But I feel like — because they didn't — they don't know the rules, the ethics rules, most people don't and — but when you evaluate the rules, I feel like that I am — I should not be involved investigating a campaign I had a role in.
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So, according to the Attorney General, the President of the United Goddamned States doesn't understand that it's a problem to investigate a campaign you were involved in.

The nation's highest-ranking lawyer says Donald J. Trump doesn't understand why you can't investigate your own actions.

This is what happened today.
 
poweRob said:
The hilarity ensues...

Trump transition team canceled ethics training session

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

The ethics program proposed by the General Services Administration would have helped White House staff and political appointees get through Senate confirmation hearings, work with Congress and corresponding agencies and comply with laws and executive orders -- all issues Trump nominees and staff have confronted during their first six weeks in office.​

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!
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MaggieD said:
I honestly expect that if Sessions is forced to resign, no small number of Democrats will hang their heads in shame.
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Why is that?'

These kind of open-ended statements rather leave it up to the reader to guess what one refers to. Does the "Democrats" reference have something to do with negligence about an email server, or getting shot at in Iraq?
 
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