Great.
Is there anything realistically stopping him from being fired?
Norms and decency, so no.
And this little piggy built his home with straw...
"That'll stop the fascist dictatorship" said the pig.
The pig was killed and eaten. The end.
He doesn't need to be fired, he'll just be ignored and marginalized.
Trump won't ignore him, but he will fire him.
Trump has a pathological need to tell everyone what a big boy he is and he makes his own decisions, because he needs external affirmation. Firing Huitema will get him applause from the shit-flingers so of course he'll do it.
Nope.
So... What's his job exactly? To tell Trump "that's not ethical" and be promptly ignored?
The executive branch ethics program works to prevent financial conflicts of interest to help ensure government decisions are made free from personal financial bias.
https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/about_what-we-do
Since it went so well last time Trump was president, it's just another virtue signal for him to wipe some more shit on.
Kinda weird to instate this as an advisory body instead of just making self-management of investments for anyone in Congress illegal. Everyone in finance has to do that because of the clear conflict of interest. The people making the laws and financial regulations seemingly do not because their above it (even tho their very clearly enriching themselves).
Why stop at financial? Matt Gaetz is a predator in charge of the AG office. There are more things than profits that bad people seek.
I will never stop despising everyone who refers to any American official as a "Tsar"
It's a word that means things, un-American and anti-democratic things, shut the hell up "journalists."
Tbf that was always kinda the point. It was a coined to mock the creation of White House office positions that had no legislation justifying it's existence, as opposed to the Federal Departments.
If the office was created, and position filled undemocratically, then calling that office holder a tsar makes some sense, if clearly hyperbolic.
Obviously, this one is a Senate approved appointment, so the point is diluted.
Good news: Man standing in direct path of avalanche puts on snow shoes
Problem: the Americans have an actual czar now, and an "ethics czar" will not stop him
I think we need to stop using czar for everything. Gotten a bit out of hand.
There should be an Anti-Czar Czar
The should slam that word.
How cute.....Warren thinks this guy will have a job 30 seconds after Trump's coronation.
This guy is either going to be busy as hell or just sitting back because he won't be able to stop it. Aught to be interesting where he falls.
They should have named it department of government ethics.
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