An ethical double standard for Trump?

[Seedersandleechers]

Republicans are deeply concerned about ethics in government and the vast potential for corruption stemming from conflicts of interest. We know this because of the acute worries they expressed over how these issues could have cast a shadow over a Hillary Clinton presidency.

“If Hillary Clinton wins this election and they don’t shut down the Clinton Foundation and come clean with all of its past activities, then there’s no telling the kind of corruption that you might see out of the Clinton White House,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

Presumably Cotton will take the lead in advising Donald Trump to “shut down” his business activities and “come clean” on what came before. Surely Cotton wants to be consistent.

The same must be true of Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chair whom Trump tapped as his chief of staff. “When that 3 a.m. phone call comes, Americans deserve to have a president on the line who is not compromised by foreign donations,” Priebus said earnestly in a statement on Aug. 18.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-ethical-double-standard-for-trump--and-the-gop/2016/11/27/40f88624-b344-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.b1b2f5a8166e

[JHan]

1. They're hypocrites. They don't care.

[LonePirate]

2. Republicans in Congress do not give a damn about his corruption. If anything, they want in on it.

[yurbud]

3. imagine if the media & congress treated 9/11 like Benghazi, and Jeff Gannon like Monica Lewinsky...

and Enron and other Bush cronies like...

and so on.

[jmowreader]

4. Trump isn't "compromised by foreign donations," silly boy

Trump is leveraged out the ass to the Bank of China, Deutsche Bank's Private Bank (where the members of the More Balls Than Brains Club go to borrow money) and various Russian banks. And there is NOTHING stopping them from calling in his loans if he does something that displeases him.

Our useless Congress needs to watch Trump extremely closely; if there's a situation where Trump has to choose between his money or his country, they need to pull out the 25th Amendment and furlough this asshole before he hands the country over to our enemies.

[JudyM]

5. They don't care about their hypocrisy. It's all about winning and how much they can get.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. This. As long as they have power, they don't care how they got it.