{"id":93349,"date":"2017-06-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=93349"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T10:29:57","slug":"trump-exempts-entire-senior-staff-from-white-house-ethics-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/trump-exempts-entire-senior-staff-from-white-house-ethics-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff from White House Ethics Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_93351\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93351\" class=\"wp-image-93351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trump.jpeg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien\/The Daily Beast<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am now giving you permission to act as unethically as you can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse your office to make as much money as you can, hire relatives, cut deals with corporations, form side businesses to supplement your income any way you can, (bribes are fine) and don\u2019t worry too much about actually doing the business of government or serving any individual constituents unless they are worth a few million or billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional tools are acceptable: threats, blackmail, eavesdropping friends\/enemies, outright false slander, honey traps, using your influence favorably or unfavorably to get your friend into jobs, their\u00a0kids into top schools, giving their wives a no-show job, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a White House lawyer, please make sure you make enough money in case you are disbarred and lose your law license [the John Dean rule], and concentrate your activities in states with weak or corrupt attorney generals and judges. Any assistance you need please call the Gambino-Lucchese law firm for professional advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd under no circumstances may you name your hotels or restaurants with the name Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>********<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Original News Clip from <\/em>The Daily Beast<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-exempts-entire-senior-staff-from-white-house-ethics-rules\" >Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff from White House Ethics Rules<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Aldo Rovatti is a <\/em>nom d&#8217;emprunt: <em>a deceased Communist Italian Party labor lawyer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use your office to make as much money as you can, hire relatives, cut deals with corporations, form side businesses to supplement your income any way you can, (bribes are fine) and don\u2019t worry too much about actually doing the business of government or serving any individual constituents unless they are worth a few million or billion\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}