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Summary

Donald Trump has exempted himself from key ethics guidelines required under the Presidential Transition Act, which he signed into law in 2020.

By rejecting federal funding for his transition team, Trump avoids donor limits and disclosure requirements, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and transparency.

Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and government watchdogs, warn that Trump’s refusal to submit an ethics plan undermines accountability and could open the door to corruption.

This move marks a break from precedent and has sparked alarm over potential personal enrichment during his presidency.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe just maybe you guys should have laws that require this instead of ohbits always been done this way. What a riduclulse country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

It is a law. Apparently it's just not enforced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Call the Trumpulance?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

This is the problem with trying to follow decorum against a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago

I mean the universe spent years letting us all know this guy was corrupt as fuck.

Americans voted for corruption.

We WANT corruption.

We'll be no better than Russia by the end of our lives. And it will have been no one else's fault but our own.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I appreciate the rare honesty, I guess. Not like it would change anything if he did it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Now he did it. IT'S DONE. WE GOT EM. Donald will finally feel the FULL FORCE of our justice system telling him that they are VERY CONCERNED.

Mark your calendars everyone, we have a new holiday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

My brother in Christ you signed the law

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

So he chose not to lie this once. Doesn't excuse a lifetime of it

[–] [email protected] 42 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We have learned (and are still learning) that precedent doesn't mean shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It is spelled "president"

(/a)

[–] GhiLA 14 points 9 hours ago

It was.

Now it's Fuhrer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Okay, I give up. What on earth is /a supposed to mean!? Some sources decode it as "alterous", but that doesn't help me either. Is this just a typo of /s?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Probably just a typo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Just a typo, (and fat fingers) but I'm going to say it stands for "ambiguous" because...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Why am I not in the least bit surprised.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Him not signing an ethics pledge is probably the most honest move he did in his lifetime.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The more I see this unfold the more I understand why Trump won. (This is in no way me supporting Trump, the guy deserves the worst this world has to offer!)

Anyways, the establishment and dems are a bunch of toothless liars! If I was some poor chap doing my best to just stay alive in the US I likely also would've have lost hope in my vote mattering. Legally speaking, it quite literally doesn't. The dems regularly shitting on the primaries is a great example of this (and ofc the electoral collage).

Nobody in politics cares about the people. After the 2008 crash, both the reps and dems bailed out all the banks responsible for the mass fraud, while the people that suffered barely got shit.

The vast majority of people didn't vote and some voted Trump out of desperation, wanting any change at all. It's fucking sad.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is America's self-inflicted gunshot wound

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

And even if it heals, the medical bills will wreck us.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Warren is a good example of someone who does care and I can only recommend her books on the matter. She came from the same place as everyone else and managed to get where she has been for a good while now.

If she'd been president 2016 or any time after that things would've looked a lot different, probably globally, I can almost guarantee as much.

Edit: and by different I mean a lot fucking better, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You mean Bernie, not Warren. Plus Bernie was winning primaries and insanely more popular than Warren.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If he's so popular why wasn't he elected after every primary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Because you don't live in a democracy. And you don't get elected after every primary, primaries are held before election to see who is popular. Sanders approval rating is through the roof and has been consistently over the years, easily the most popular senator across the board.

Your answer is the DNC, ain't that complicated. Sanders won the votes of the people, but the liberals and dems pushed Hillary anyway in 2016, and lost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but she's not progressive enough for the leftists (plus they hate her for some perceived slight against Bernie), and too left for the moderates.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 16 hours ago

Opens the door to corruption?

The door was burnt for firewood years ago.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 17 hours ago

Those alarms already had the copper wire stolen from behind them.

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