The White House has an Ethics Lawyer???

[CatWoman]

White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino leaving administration

White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino is leaving the Trump administration, a senior White House official told NBC News on Thursday.

His last day is Friday.

Passantino — who had been in charge of making sure White House officials complied with government ethics rules — had helped several White House officials deal with a number of ethics controversies, including a notorious March 2017 incident in which Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Donald Trump, plugged the clothing line of the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, on national television.

Passantino is just the latest lawyer to depart the Trump White House.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-ethics-lawyer-stefan-passantino-leaving-administration-n905031?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Not that anyone would notice.

Poor bastard probably sat in a lonely little office writing memos that nobody ever read.

[guillaumeb]

3. If they were written, how could Trump be expected to read them? eom

[guillaumeb]

2. He also heads the Department of Irony. eom

[Autumn]

4. To be truthful an ethics lawyer isn't needed in a White House that

has no ethics.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Who knew?

[0rganism]

6. they moved his office to the basement

"Since you're already down here, it would be great if you could get a can of pesticide and take care of the cockroach problem we've been having in here."

[DeminPennswoods]

7. They have the lawyer, but no ethics

nt

[Bob Loblaw]

8. Teats on a boar

nt

[gratuitous]

9. Mildly surprised he's alive

I would have thought that such a position would be vacated when the person's dessicated body was found by some luckless flunky dropping off new office phone lists.

[sdfernando]

10. They absolutely do have an ethics lawyer

but these days the job is more like White house Appendix

[malaise]

11. Ha

I was shocked - for real.

[pecosbob]

12. As vocal a critic of Trump as he is

Richard Painter ran against an established Dem in Minnesota...he lost. As much as he wails on Trump, he was W's ethics lawyer, and by default Dick Cheney's as well. Which by inference means he has no ethics, when push comes to shove.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. To be fair to Painter, he worked in the Bush admin only for the two years

at the end of the administration, and he was not involved in the more heinous things Bush and Cheney did (like the torture memos), which occurred years before Painter got the job. I do think Painter is basically an ethical guy, although I voted for Tina Smith in the MN primary. I hope Painter will endorse and support her in the general. He's also the vice-chairman of CREW, the organization that's suing Trump for violating the Emoluments Clause.

[pecosbob]

14. You are of course correct and I was out of line criticizing him by inference

His work for CREW is laudable...there are very few credible monitors of our government and CREW has proved itself to be just that.