Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump

[octoberlib]

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 12/19/16 03:43 PM EST
Newt Gingrich has a take on how Donald Trump can keep from running afoul of U.S. ethics laws: Change the ethics laws.

Trump is currently grappling with how to sufficiently disentangle himself from his multibillion-dollar business to avoid conflicts of interest with his incoming administration, and the president-elect has already pushed back a promised announcement of an ethics firewall.

Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and one-time potential running mate for Trump, says Trump should push Congress for legislation that accounts for a billionaire businessman in the White House.


And should someone in the Trump administration cross the line, Gingrich has a potential answer for that too.
“In the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the White House the way he wants to. He also has, frankly, the power of the pardon,” Gingrich said. “It’s a totally open power. He could simply say, ‘Look, I want them to be my advisers. I pardon them if anyone finds them to have behaved against the rules. Period. Technically, under the Constitution, he has that level of authority.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-congress-232828

[spanone]

1. they are some shameless fuckers....brazen criminals.

i'm sure they wouldn't have minded that if Hillary won

[Angry Dragon]

2. !!YES!!

[malaise]

5. Rules and ethics do not apply to

ReTHUGs. Make 'thugery' legal.

[Solly Mack]

3. They're living their dream.

Sadly.

[VOX]

4. FUCK YOU, NEWT! Just...fuck you.

Apologies to fellow DUers for the language, but this "man" is one of the most vile Americans to ever walk the planet. He is absolute garbage.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. What do you expect a man with no ethics to say? Newt revealed his lack

of ethics many years ago.