On Monday, former Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub tore into Senate Republicans for standing behind President Donald Trump in spite of all his attacks on the rule of law.
In particular, Shaub tweeted, Senate Republicans’ refusal to exert any oversight in the wake of Trump firing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is a throwback to when every Senate Republican except Mitt Romney voted to fully acquit the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in the Ukraine impeachment saga. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/corruption-is-their-brand-senate-republicans-slammed-for-remaining-silent-after-trump-fired-sdnys-berman/
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Former top government ethics official: Payments companies made to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen were like nothing I've ever seen - Business Insider
Former Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub said Tuesday that the payments a handful of companies made to President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer were unlike anything he's ever seen. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/walter-shaub-on-payments-to-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-2018-5
http://www.businessinsider.com/walter-shaub-on-payments-to-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-2018-5
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Former ethics chief explains to CNN why all of Trump’s cabinet officials are so bad at their jobs - Raw Story
Former director of government ethics Walter Shaub explained why President Donald Trump's political appointees keep humiliating his administration over and over again. According to Shaub it all goes back to the conspiracy theories of a "deep state." ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/former-ethics-chief-explains-cnn-trumps-cabinet-officials-bad-jobs/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/former-ethics-chief-explains-cnn-trumps-cabinet-officials-bad-jobs/
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Ex-ethics chief scalds Trump and his Cabinet secretaries for ‘living like French nobles before the revolution’ - Raw Story
Speaking with "New Day" host Alisyn Camerota on Friday morning, former Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub said the lavish lifestyles of Trump administration officials on the public dime is a direct result of Trump's near-weekly trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-ethics-chief-scalds-trump-cabinet-secretaries-living-like-french-nobles-revolution/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-ethics-chief-scalds-trump-cabinet-secretaries-living-like-french-nobles-revolution/
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Former ethics chief: Trump's Saturday morning Flynn tweet should be enough to end his presidency -- Raw Story
Walter Shaub -- former director of the U.S. Office of Ethics and Government -- hit President Donald Trump hard in a tweet on Saturday after Trump said that everything disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn did during the presidential transition was "lawful." ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/former-ethics-chief-trumps-saturday-morning-flynn-tweet-should-be-enough-to-end-his-presidency/
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/former-ethics-chief-trumps-saturday-morning-flynn-tweet-should-be-enough-to-end-his-presidency/
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Office of Government Ethics head: America is 'pretty close to a laughingstock at this point'
Outgoing Office of Government Ethics head Walter Shaub has made it loud and clear that he's resigning due to the agency's inability to enforce much of anything in the face of the ethics-averse Donald Trump. He will be departing explicitly to advocate for stronger ethics laws from outside the government.
Trump's behavior is costing the nation, Shaub says: To the international community, "I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point."...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681429
Trump's behavior is costing the nation, Shaub says: To the international community, "I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point."...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681429
Outgoing Ethics Chief: U.S. Is ‘Close to a Laughingstock’ -- The New York Times
Walter M. Shaub Jr., the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics, said actions by President Trump and his administration had created a historic ethics crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/politics/walter-shaub-ethics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/politics/walter-shaub-ethics.html
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