Important new tweets from Walter Schaub, former Obama ethics official:

[pnwmom]

Link to tweet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/997166654449647617.html

Apol carves out a big exception for the Trump team, saying that recipients of cash from the sinister Patriot Fund don’t have to list the individual donors who gave them the cash in their financial disclosure reports. /4

Instead of disclosing the names of donors, Apol says Trump officials who receive cash from the Patriot Fund can just provide a hyperlink to the IRS page where the Patriot Fund discloses names of donors who give more than $200. /5

The problem is Apol allows the Patriot Fund to accept donations from prohibited sources who can't give cash to federal officials. Apol sees no problem with officials receiving gifts from this tainted pool of money, despite the prohibition on gifts from prohibited sources. /6

Thanks to Apol’s carve out for the Trump team, ethics officials and the public have no way of knowing who’s money Hayworth gave to the official, which gives the Trump team plausible deniability if any illegal gifts are accepted. /10

The worst thing about the Patriot Fund is that the secrecy OGE has blessed gives Nan Hayworth (or any successor manager) the ability to reward those who testimony is favorable to Trump and punish those whose testimony is unfavorable. /12

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Miigwech]

2. Really? Call out Congress to do their job.

They need to start soon because all this corruption is sewage backing up in the repub pipes. I once saw a plumber open up a drain in a restaurant basement ceiling and he was completely covered in a gush of putrid stuff.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Nan Hayworth, BTW, used to be a US House rep from New York. . .

. . .from 2010 to 2014, when she was ousted by Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. An axe to grind possibly?

Another ophthalmologist with no background in law. Sounds like your ideal Repug (from Wiki):

Nan Alison Sutter was born on December 14, 1959, in Chicago[3][4] and was raised in Munster, Indiana, to parents who were both World War II veterans. Her mother immigrated to the United States from England in 1948. A graduate of Munster High School,[5] she went on to graduate from Princeton University and then Cornell University Medical College, after which she trained in ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

Tenure
During her time in Congress, Hayworth focused on fiscal issues, while avoiding divisive stances on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.[21] She endorsed Mitt Romney in November 2011. She supported repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and generally opposed additional gun control measures.

Therefore, highly qualified in tRump World. As tRump would say; "Nothing to see here"...

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[pecosbob]

5. This does not surprise me

The question it raises though, disturbs me. Postulating a return to legislative control in the near future, will Democratic Party office holders decide they like the changes?