Trump appears to have excluded himself from following the same guidelines he signed into law four years ago

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.

  • Floon@lemmy.ml
    14·
    17 hours ago

    In how many ways do we need to signal to Trump that he can do whatever he wants, without repercussion?

    We’re so fucking useless.

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    342·
    21 hours ago

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

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 hours ago

        It is a law. Trump signed it in his first term.

        Penalties include

        • no transition funding
        • no early read-ins to get up to speed

        Apparently they don’t care. Congress could probably do something but Senator Warren is shouting into a void

        Edit: if you don’t sign an ethics statement promising not to accept bribes donations from unethical sources presenting a strong appearance of conflict of interest, your penalty is you get to accept bribes them

  • Randelung@lemmy.world
    41·
    13 hours ago

    Stop with the precedent. Decorum and tradition means nothing and only Dems keep falling for it and setting themselves arbitrary barriers.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
    8·
    17 hours ago

    Thank goodness for the watchdogs! I’m so glad they’re here. What would we do without them?!?!?

    -_____-

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    22 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.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    22 hours ago

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

  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
    151·
    22 hours ago

    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.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    85·
    16 hours ago

    I really hope the segment of poor people that voted for him suffer greatly under his regime. They need to learn a hard kind of lesson they seem to be unwilling to learn any other way.

    • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      They already are… Look at the states and counties that vote red. Leaders in education and life expectancy they are not. Great in poverty with a dearth of opportunity they are. Over the decades these places have been ravaged by big business. Then business moved overseas and opiates moved in.

      What do these people do? In a flash of absolute genius they vote in the guy whose administration is filled with tech bros. The problem is the tech bros all think these people are trash and are happy to see them occupied by video games and drugs.

      So clearly the immigrants working for low pay are the reason the economy is fucked. The solution must be the administration whose only legislative accomplishment was a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. Because the economy can’t possibly be fucked because as a society we’ve given to the top 1% all of the gains in productivity since the 1980s.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Did you just become one of the “hurting the right people” crowd?

      Ot doesn’t work on them anyway. They just blame someone else.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 hours ago

      I don’t think you understand the psyche of people voting for him, even if Trump personally came to their house and stomped on their balls they would vote for him.

      It won’t make any difference to their future votes if they suffer, it’ll just be suffering.

      I still don’t really know a good way to pry people away from his cult of personality or convince them of the truth but suffering for the sake of itself is not good.

    • caden@lemmy.sdf.org
      78·
      16 hours ago

      This is not it. What an abhorrent and sadistic take.

      Here’s a handy tip for the future: if you find yourself writing a sentence that goes “I really hope […] poor people […] suffer greatly”, maybe reconsider posting it.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        The […] Is doing some heavy lifting.

        That’s like saying that “I hope the black people that killed my parents suffer greatly” shouldn’t be said. You can’t just " I hope […] black people […] suffer greatly" it.