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Donald K. Sherman, deputy director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has written an op-ed for NBC this morning: Trump’s 2020 election transition plan is a bit of a mystery. Here’s why that’s alarming
He writes that getting details of the preparations the administration is making this year has been fraught with difficulties.
Trump had a notoriously chaotic transition to start his first term — and that chaos had consequences. A 2017 congressional report found that the “Trump Transition Team consistently ignored advice from the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) - resulting in ethical crises that extended beyond the transition period into the Trump presidency.”
According to CREW’s calculations, Trump’s failure to heed OGE’s advice to divest from his business has led to more than 3,300 conflicts of interest related to the Trump Organization. Obtaining OGE communications about the “critical milestones” for presidential transition in 2021 would reveal whether the Trump administration is following OGE’s guidance this time around.
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There’s going to be a lot of focus this week on the fringe elements of the Republican party that increasingly seem to be creeping into the mainstream – the rightwing Republicans who promote QAnon and conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter. Adam Gabbatt reports for us:
There are few Republicans willing to condemn Laura Loomer, an Islamophobe and conspiracy theorist, and the other Trump extremists – and those who will go on the record tend to be on their way out of the party.
“I’ve always said we need a big tent party. I just didn’t think it would turn into a carnival tent,” Republican congressman Denver Riggleman, who was defeated by a far-right challenger in his Virginia GOP primary race earlier this year, told the Hill. “Candidates like this really actually hurt our profile, because it overshadows the great work that’s being done by legitimate members.”
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