Spicer: Trump Is The 'Ultimate Decider' On Ethics Rules

[DonViejo]

OH, OK
Spicer: Trump Is The ‘Ultimate Decider’ On Ethics Rules

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday that if President Trump doesn’t think his staff violated ethics rules, they haven’t violated ethics rules.

LACHLAN MARKAY
06.02.17 5:01 PM ET

If President Donald Trump says his staff didn’t violate ethics rules, they didn’t violate ethics rules, White House press secretary Sean Spicer explained on Friday.
Asked about the propriety of a waiver to those rules allowing chief White House strategist Steve Bannon to communicate with Breitbart News, the pro-Trump outlet he ran until last year, Spicer indicated that, by definition, Trump can’t run afoul of ethics measures he imposed by executive order in January because Trump himself imposed them.

“This didn’t have to do with the law or regulations,” Spicer said. “This had to do with the president’s pledge, his ethics pledge, so he is the ultimate decider on that.”

Spicer comments came in response to scrutiny of a retroactive waiver to an ethics pledge required of all Trump administration appointees. The waiver, which was announced on Wednesday and covers all White House appointees, allows officials to communicate with former employers or clients in the news business.

The waiver did not mention Bannon by name, but squarely addressed allegations that Bannon had violated the ethics pledge by communicating with multiple staffers at Breitbart, which Bannon chaired before joining the Trump presidential campaign last year. Those allegations are at the center of a complaint filed with the Office of Government Ethics in March.

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[maveric]

1. Oh no! Not another "Decider".

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Bizarro world. A most unethical decider on ethics

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. And the corrupt and horrible GOP will decide on impeachment, of which there is NO

situation where they will, none.

Either you win back both houses in 2018, or Putin takes over completely.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Good grief, is the country that ignorant? "Ultimate Decider"......really.....

[malaise]

5. It doesn't work like that Sean

Go Cheney yourself and take the Con with you

[aikoaiko]

6. Sean "Bahgdad Bob" Spicer is a despicable person.

Sadly, he'll be paid well after the White House.

[ProudLib72]

7. The ultimate decider?

KFC or McDonalds? That is the biggest decision he ever makes.

[Vinca]

8. LOL - Trump hasn't exactly been the pillar of ethics in his lifetime.

From weaseling out of the military draft because of a "bone spur" and then going skiing to paying a fine for not following anti-money laundering procedures for his casinos to doing Marla behind Ivana's back . . . he could be the poster boy for "no ethics."

[Freethinker65]

9. "I know words. I have the best words."

Unfortunately, even with his now limited vocabulary, his "words" are meaningless.

[pansypoo53219]

10. DRAIN the swamp. oops, i meant SAVE the SWAMP.