President-elect Donald Trump is peddling the notion that he can let his sons run his businesses but make no “new” deals after he is inaugurated. On Wednesday, he held a meeting of tech giant chief executives in which three of his adult children and his son-in-law participated.
Ethics experts were flabbergasted. “Donald Trump’s children aren’t just family, they are tasked with running his business completely separate from his running the government. What we’ve seen so far is not an administration avoiding the appearance of conflicts of interest but one actively courting it,” said Jordan Libowitz of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He continued, “The president-elect of the United States just brought in the heads of many of America’s largest companies to meet with him and the executives of his personal business. He is relying on the senior leadership of his business to help him pick Cabinet officials.” Libowitz added, “There is no explicable reason for his children to be so involved with the running of the government if their focus on the health of Trump’s business interests is what is supposed to allow him to avoid conflicts.” He reiterated what virtually every ethics expert has said: “If he is serious about a separation of government and personal business, he needs to sell the business outside of his family and place the assets in a blind trust.”
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We live in a time when elected officalls are freely volunteering admissions of smoking crack as well as boldly declaring their recreational drug use..
Such open admissions of drug use does not equate into a peerceptiopn of drug abuse .Even when such declarations come from those who hold seats of power, the majority of people are increasingly more to forgive than condem.
For example : the publicly pillaryed Marion Barry, L. A. Mayor snaged in a drug sting. some say it was a set-up. Notwithstanding the crucible Mr. Barry suffered from media and pundits he was re-elected after every selacious detail of his being busted was blasted in the court of public opinion. Re-Elected... by mandated numbers
These revelations only support the need for national harm reduction awareness education.
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