Remember when 45 repealed ethics pledge, allowing aides to benefit from foreign ties?

[Tanuki]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/24/trump-foreign-lobbying-461715

"President Donald Trump’s last-minute move to scrap his administration’s own ethics rules will make it easier for his former aides to lobby on behalf of foreign interests — the same line of work behind so many Trump-era scandals.

In the final hours of his presidency, Trump revoked the ethics pledge he’d signed four years earlier, which, among other things, had barred those who’d served in his administration from lobbying for foreign governments and political parties for the rest of their lives.
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Trump’s “lifetime ban” on former officials in his administration representing foreign governments was part of his 2016 campaign pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington. He even criticized President Bill Clinton for revoking his own ethics rules right before leaving office two decades ago, arguing Clinton had “rigged the system on his way out.”

“He is undoing really the only example of policy that was supposed to evidence his commitment to drain the swamp,” said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, which advocates for tougher ethics rules."...(more)

[Irish_Dem]

1. This is what happens with a mob boss moves into the White House.

[underpants]

2. I had forgotten about that

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. What's Trump's % of the take?

You know that Trump has a quid pro quo for these transactions.