6-figure payments from an undisclosed source to the wife of a presidential candidate raise major ethical questions
The payment to Melania Trump could create a conflict of interest—& the public has a right to know the source of the money
I explained @CNN
Just finished the Flynn decision.
It is an excrescence, as the dissent points out. It guts one of the most important safeguards of our democracy: an independent judiciary.
Sullivan should seek en banc review. He will win if he does--the opinion is that weak.
BREAKING: DA Bragg just launched his opposition to Trump’s effort to overturn his 34 felony convictions & get a new trial in the Manhattan case
This matters even more now that the election is about a prosecutor vs. a perpetrator
And the DA brief is DEVASTATING
A thread…
BREAKING: we FOIA’d Mnuchin travel docs & he makes Carson and the others look like pikers—he blew over $1 million of your money flying military aircraft, with no apparent justification. His predecessors flew commercial.
To avoid conflicts, I wouldn't even let Obama refinance his family home when I was his ethics czar
Now Trump is hoovering in hundreds of millions in violation of the law!
That's a threat to our national security as I discussed @MSNBC
Most shocking Barr revelation to me:
Barr is significantly more rude to members of color.
It’s ugly in an oversight hearing.
But it’s horrifying when you think that this is the man in charge of enforcing civil rights & other law.
I have debated her a couple times on TV. I am struggling for a diplomatic way to put this but.... when the producer told me she was a graduate of Harvard Law I thought I was being pranked.
Wharton should immediately investigate whether Trump paid someone to take the SAT and obtained his admission by fraud.
If so, the degree should be rescinded.
There is no statute of limitations on plagiarism, and this allegation is even worse.
WARNING to White House staff: the president may be exempt from the rules at 5 CFR § 2635.701 et seq. on misuse of position BUT YOU ARE NOT. If you help @potus with the below, you risk violating §§ 702, 704 & 705 forbidding use of gov time & $$$ to harm some media & aid others.
The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!
This is insane. In the Obama White House, I even made people quit uncompensated non-profit outside positions because of conflicts risks. This is FOR profit work that could conflict with official duties. Prediction: by end of Trump admin, prisons will be full of his associates
