White House rebuffs ethics office recommendation to discipline Kellyanne Conway

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The White House Counsel's Office has concluded that senior adviser Kellyanne Conway acted “inadvertently” when she endorsed Ivanka Trump's clothing line, rebuffing a recommendation by the top federal ethics official that she be disciplined for an apparent violation of federal rules.

Stefan C. Passantino, who handles White House ethics issues as deputy counsel to President Trump, wrote in a letter Tuesday that his office concluded Conway was speaking in a “light, offhand manner” when she touted the Ivanka Trump line during a Feb. 9 appearance on “Fox & Friends.” At the time, Conway was addressing efforts by activists to persuade retailers such as Nordstrom to drop Ivanka Trump-branded items.

“We concluded that Ms. Conway acted inadvertently and is highly unlikely to do so again,” Passantino wrote to Walter M. Schaub, Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, adding that Conway made the comments “without nefarious motive or intent to benefit personally.”

Passantino said he met with Conway and advised her that her remarks “implicated the prohibition on using one's official position to endorse any product or service.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/01/white-house-rebuffs-ethics-office-recommendation-to-discipline-kellyanne-conway/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_conway-530pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9dc4d96713c4

[DURHAM D]

1. Oh... I thought this was about her feet on the couch. nt

[MontanaMama]

3. Me too.

I'm actually more offended that she disrespected the people's furniture in the Oval Office than I am that she hawked dumb old ivanka's shitty clothing line.

[C_U_L8R]

2. If beauty is only skin deep

Then what's inside Kellyanne is the stuff of horror movies.

[panader0]

4. lol