No shame: dangerous
Jonathan Freedland
Friday 12 May 2017 14.17 EDT
... In firing Comey, he was clearly breaching the wall that’s meant to separate law enforcement from political meddling ... Technically, a president does have the power to sack an FBI director. It’s just that the unwritten rules have always said a president shouldn’t ...
... On Friday morning, Trump mused on Twitter that perhaps he should abandon the daily press briefing, long seen as an essential requirement of basic transparency ...
... Past presidents have divested themselves of any business ties, or at least placed their holdings in a blind trust, lest there be even a hint of a conflict of interest ... Trump ... says ... “the president can’t have a conflict of interest” ... But in the past, the ... unwritten norm was clear: no president should have his or her judgment clouded by the prospect of personal financial gain.
A similar rule has applied to the nepotistic hiring of unqualified relatives: not done ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/donald-trump-has-no-shame-that-makes-him-dangerous