Comments on: The Clown In The White House https://theconstitutionmobile.com/the-clown-in-the-white-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-clown-in-the-white-house Knowledge is Power. Know Your Rights. Know Your Constitution. Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.5 By: barbara d. weinhart https://theconstitutionmobile.com/the-clown-in-the-white-house/#comment-14 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:38:28 +0000 http://theconstitutionmobile.com/?p=671#comment-14 This is all so true! Why were the Americans so blind to all the good President Trump succeeded accomplishing in his too short term as our President to ever allow him to become defeated? The entire situation is so mind boggling and frustrating to think the public allowed this to happen and be buffaloed by such a hypocrite as Biden and his counterpart!

I have to believe the underlying factor was the blacks and narrow minded women voting for the
Vice Presidential candidate and not taking into consideration the fact that Biden is too old, senile as well a liar and truly not competent to run the country, but is a puppet for those in power. Those who voted for him were seeing a woman as President! How sorry this country will be under these circumstances.

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By: Jeanette Riccardi https://theconstitutionmobile.com/the-clown-in-the-white-house/#comment-13 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:08:59 +0000 http://theconstitutionmobile.com/?p=671#comment-13 President Trump has done so much for our country. I pray he will be our President again!

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By: Jean Finley https://theconstitutionmobile.com/the-clown-in-the-white-house/#comment-12 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:35:38 +0000 http://theconstitutionmobile.com/?p=671#comment-12 Doesn’t pass the fact check!

Provisions of lobbying restrictions considered underwhelming
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly criticized political Washington as a “swamp” that he would drain. But his pledge to “reinstitute a five-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government for five years after they leave government” and to have Congress enact this ban into law remains largely unfulfilled.

As we noted in 2017, Trump signed an executive order shortly after becoming president that restricted some of the lobbying that White House officials could do after they left his team, but it had caveats. The order only banned White House officials from lobbying their former agency, not from becoming lobbyists. And it didn’t expand the definition of what it means to be a lobbyist, a loophole that enables former government officials to pursue lobbying-like activities without technically meeting the definition of being a lobbyist.

Since then, Trump hasn’t refined or strengthened the provisions in his executive order, experts who follow lobbying rules say.

The administration should have articulated “stronger cooling-off standards to ensure (former officials) are not in a position to unduly benefit,” said Michael Beckel, research director for Issue One, a group that advocates for transparency and clean government.

Timothy M. LaPira, a James Madison University political scientist and author of “Revolving Door Lobbying: Public Service, Private Interest, and the Unequal Representation of Interests,” agreed. “It is not at all clear how, or even if, this ‘ban’ is enforced,” he said.

Meanwhile, the administration has eagerly brought lobbyists to work in government. An October 2019 investigation by ProPublica found that 281 lobbyists have worked in the Trump administration, which works out to one lobbyist for every 14 political appointees. That’s four times higher than the rate was under Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, ProPublica found.
Source: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1442/enact-5-year-ban-white-house-and-congressional-off/

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By: Byron Wooldridge https://theconstitutionmobile.com/the-clown-in-the-white-house/#comment-11 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:53:36 +0000 http://theconstitutionmobile.com/?p=671#comment-11 Evidently the fact he accomplished those things is a problem. Politicians aren’t supposed to accomplish anything.

Oh, that’s right, he isn’t a politician.

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