James Schultz, whose work included ethics and financial disclosure issues, is planning to go back to his private practice at Cozen O'Connor, a Philadelphia-based law firm, Politico reported.
"That was something Don [McGahn, the White House counsel] and I discussed very early on," Schultz told the news outlet.
"I was interested in continuing with private practice and saw this as a tremendous opportunity to go serve and get things up and running and the plan was to move on about this time."
He added that people typically stay in these positions for a year to 18 months.
Yeah, okay.
Schultz claims that he is willing to join the debate about conflicts of interest in the White House so that he can talk " about the good work the Trump administration is doing on these issues."
Which leads me to believe he was not worth a damn when it came to steering Trump and his administration toward being more ethical.
In my opinion the only ethical thing Donald Trump could do was to resign for the good of the country.
And that is what a GOOD ethics lawyer would be telling him every day they were on the job.
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ReplyDeleteWatch "16 Women and Donald Trump" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/P2lMN3kIjAA
Jessica Leeds (early 1980s)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Leeds said Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt when she was seated next to him in first class on a flight in the early 1980s. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”
Afterward, she fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,” she said.
Later, he mocked Leeds at a campaign rally, suggesting she wasn’t attractive enough to sexually harass. “Yeah, I’m gonna go after — believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you,” he said.
Since then: “It is hard to reconcile that Harvey Weinstein could be brought down with this, and [President] Trump just continues to be the Teflon Don,” Leeds told the Washington Post in October 2017.
She’s also said she would be interested in providing a deposition in the Zervos defamation suit. “I would do it — I’m not afraid,” Ms. Leeds said.
Ivana Trump (1989)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: In her 1990 divorce deposition, Ivana Trump accused her soon-to-be ex-husband of raping her in a fit of rage the previous year. Harry Hurt III obtained the papers, and described Ivana’s account in his 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. According to Hurt, Ivana said her husband raped her in a rage after a doctor she recommended gave him an unexpectedly painful “scalp reduction” operation to eliminate a bald spot. Hurt said Ivana described a “violent assault,” in which her husband yanked out a handful of her hair, held her hands back, and tore her clothing.
“Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified … It is a violent assault,” Hurt wrote. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’”
Kristin Anderson (early 1990s)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Anderson claimed that while she was out at a New York club with friends in the early 1990s, someone slid his hand under her miniskirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She turned around a recognized him as Donald Trump.
“It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it and nothing would happen,” Anderson said. “There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part.”
Since then: Anderson is mentioned in the Zervos lawsuit, but has not discussed her claim publicly since the election.
Jill Harth (1993)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Harth claimed that Trump made repeated unwanted sexual advances as she and her romantic partner at the time, George Houraney, pursued a business relationship with the mogul in the early 1990s. She said that on January 24, 1993, at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered her a tour of the estate, then pulled her into his daughter Ivanka’s empty bedroom.
“He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth said, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?”
In 1997 Harth and Houraney sued Trump for breach of contract, and she filed a separate sexual-harassment suit, accusing him of “attempted rape.” They reached a confidential settlement in the contract suit, and as part of the agreement Harth withdrew her suit.
Everyday that this crime is allowed to continue to harm Americans is a tragic day. In 2 yrs this ugly nasty vile predator has broken down our country and exposed the dirty filthy people who arranged treason and espionage against America.
ReplyDeleteAnd you let him. Boo hoo.
Delete"From Cosby and Columbine, to Sandy Hook, if The Pulse of America is a Las Vegas massacre, then we doom ourselves believing that it’s more important to protect the life of the unborn, than honor the virtue of teenagers, safety of college co-eds and security of female staffers."
ReplyDeletehttp://lnr.politicususa.com/welcome-medialized-america-finally-united-sex-crazed-state-2465/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/26/alt-america-terrorism-rightwing-hate-crimes
And that lousy ethics wh attorney should be taken into custody like the rest of them. And whats up with McCain telling Hillary to shut up like him? Really? John should SPEAK up about his 2007 wacko hacko extortion and bribery election foe. And how his VP suddenly resigned under investigation? And then susan serandon ? WTF? what a stupid woman.
ReplyDeleteRussia Russia Russia.
DeleteScam is about to blow up.
North Korea needs to settle down. Finger wag. Smirk. ;)
Whatever the people in this picture are looking at—Putin's face or Trump Tower Moscow plans associated with a deal orchestrated by 6 Kremlin agents (Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov, Klyushin, Alferova, Gref, and Kozhin) and signed by Trump 11/9/13 by Emin's admission—this is bad.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/935321857003225091
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Delete"if lOOks could kill"
when a person is extremely HOT, or extremely angry and about to whOOpY some serious PIECE OF a$$.
damn, that girl is smokin', if looks could kill..."
Only people left on the Trumptanic is the band and Captain Loser.
ReplyDeleteOh, there are plenty that are mumbling “Fake sinking.”
DeleteOT? tinydjt> "“Meeting with “Chuck and Nancy” today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on CrimeA and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a DEAL!” Trump said in a Twitter post." NOW>
ReplyDelete"top two Democrats in the U.S. Congress said they would NOT meet with President Donald Trump on Tuesday as planned after he said he does not think he can reach a DEAL with them on legislation to fund the government.
“Given that the president doesn’t see a DEAL between Democrats and the White House, we believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress instead,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement."
Miss Teen USA Contestants (1997)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Five women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA claimed Trump, who owned the pageant, walked in on them while they were changing.
“It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time,” said Victoria Hughes, the former Miss New Mexico Teen USA. “The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.”
On The Howard Stern Show, Trump admitted to “inspecting” the contestants backstage. It wasn’t clear if he was referring to the Miss USA pageant, or the contest for teens.
“You know, I’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good,” he said. “You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible-looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.”
Since then: In October 2017 Candace Smith, a former Miss Ohio USA, said Trump was in the dressing room when she competed in the 2003 Miss USA Pageant (not the teen pageant).
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: McDowell, who represented Utah as a 21-year-old in the 1997 Miss USA pageant, said Trump immediately kissed her when they were introduced during a rehearsal. “He kissed me directly on the lips,” she said. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’”
Since then: Taggart and three other Trump accusers — Summer Zervos, Jessica Drake, and Rachel Crooks — held a press conference in D.C. just before they protested in the Women’s March on Washington. “I want my children to see that I am willing to face my fears head on, with the hope that I might not only bring about a positive change in others, but also instill in them a similar strength,” Taggart said.
Taggart recently revealed that fellow protester Ashley Judd, who helped bring about the flood of accusations against Weinstein, offered the women words of encouragement. “She was telling us to stay strong, that we did the right thing,” Taggart said.
Cathy Heller (1997)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Heller says she received an unwanted kiss from Trump when they were introduced at a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago. The incident occurred in front of her family. The Guardian reported:
“He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips,” she claimed.
Alarmed, she said she leaned backwards to avoid him and almost lost her balance. “And he said, ‘Oh, come on.’ He was strong. And he grabbed me and went for my mouth and went for my lips.” She turned her head, she claims, and Trump planted a kiss on the side of her mouth. “He kept me there for a little too long,” Heller said. “And then he just walked away.”
Since then: Heller attended the Women’s March on Washington on the day after Trump’s inauguration, rallying 43 people to reserve an entire train car from New York. “I like to think I’d be at a march in Washington, or at least locally in New York, even if it hadn’t happened to me,” she said.
Today she’s dismayed that despite all the sexual-harassment claims against Trump, “nothing stuck.” She told the Washington Post that she thinks things might have been different for Weinstein because his accusers were famous.
“A lot of them were actresses we’ve all heard of,” Heller said. “When it’s a celebrity, it has more weight than just someone who he met at Mar-a-Lago or a beauty-pageant contestant. They’re not people we’ve heard of. And that, in our society, has much more weight because they’re famous.”
Karena Virginia (1998)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Virginia said she encountered Trump while she was waiting for a car service to pick her up from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. She overheard him making comments about her to other men. “He said, ‘Hey, look at this one, we haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs.’ As though I was an object, rather than a person,” she said.
“He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm, then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched,” she continued.
Trump then asked her, “Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?” she said.
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: McGillivray said she was assisting photographer Ken Davidoff, who was taking photos during a Ray Charles concert at Mar-a-Lago, when Trump groped her butt. “I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I’m stunned.’’
Davidoff said moments later, McGillivray pulled him aside and said, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!’’
Since then: In October 2017, McGillivray told the Post that she was afraid of speaking out a year ago, but felt it was her patriotic duty. “What pisses me off is that the guy is president,” McGillivray said. “It’s that simple.”
Following the Roy Moore scandal, McGillivray said she was appalled that Republicans still weren’t acknowledging the allegations against the president. “It’s disturbing,” she told People, “that many of Trump’s diehard supporters are so stubborn that they can’t seem to come to terms with the reality that their president is just as guilty as Roy Moore.”
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: The journalist claimed that Trump pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue down her throat while giving her a tour of Mar-a-Lago. Stoynoff was working on a profile of the Trumps, and said that while waiting for Melania to arrive for an interview, Donald told her, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?”
She said he also referenced a New York Post cover published during his affair with Marla Maples. “You remember,” he said. “‘Best Sex I Ever Had.’”
Since then: In November 2017, Stoynoff toldPeople she believes the allegations against Trump may have more power in the #MeToo era. “I feel this issue has been ‘on hold’ all year, but not forgotten,” Stoynoff said. “It’s been simmering on the stove with the lid on, like a pressure cooker. But now the heat’s on and it’s going to boil and the lid is going to blast off.”
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Murphy, a contestant in season four of The Apprentice, claimed Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview. “He walked me to the elevator, and I said good-bye. I was thinking ‘Oh, he’s going to hug me’, but when he pulled my face in and gave me a smooch. I was like ‘Oh–kay.’ I didn’t know how to act. I was just a little taken aback and probably turned red. And I then I get into the elevator and thought ‘Huh, Donald Trump just kissed me on the lips.”’
Rachel Crooks (2005)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Crooks encountered Trump outside an elevator in Trump Tower in 2005. At the time she was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real-estate investment and development company. She said she introduced herself and shook Trump’s hand, but he wouldn’t let go. He started kissing her cheeks and then “kissed me directly on the mouth.”
“It was so inappropriate,” Crooks told the New York Times. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”
Since then: Crooks recently told the Times that while she’s heartened to see sexual-harassment allegations being taken more seriously post-Weinstein, but sees a contrast in the response to Trump’s accusers. “You do wonder,” Crooks said, “how can the country forget about us?”
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, said Trump grabbed her butt while they were being photographed before an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt,” she said. “I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’”
Jessica Drake (2006)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Drake, an adult film performer and director, said she and two friends went to Trump’s hotel room after meeting him at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California. “He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission,” she said.
She said they left about a half-hour later; then Trump called her and invited her to go to dinner or a party with him. When she declined, he asked, “What do you want? How much?” She said she received a second call offering her $10,000 and the use of Trump’s private jet if she agreed to sleep with him.
Since then: Drake was among the four accusers who held a press conference on the day of the Women’s March on Washington.
“Like many, I am horrified by the potential upcoming administration and fear the consequences it will have,” she said in January. “I want to use my platform to speak for others who cannot and join voices with those who can and who march with me here today.”
Summer Zervos (2007)
ReplyDeleteThe allegation: Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice, said she approached Trump about a potential job at his company. She claimed that during their first meeting at Trump Tower, he kissed her twice on the mouth and asked for her phone number.
Weeks later, he invited her to meet him at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. She was escorted to Trump’s room, and said he asked her to sit next to him. “He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast,” she recalled. Zervos said she pushed Trump away and told him to stop.
“He then grabbed my hand and pulled me into the bedroom,” she said. “He grabbed me in an embrace, and I tried to push him away.”
Zervos said when she protested, Trump “repeated my words back to me as he began thrusting his genitals.”
She still sought employment at the Trump Organization and believed she wasn’t given a job because she rejected his advances.
Since then: Three days before Trump was inaugurated, Zervos filed a defamation suit against him. It alleges that in response to the accusations she made during the election, Trump “debased and denigrated Ms. Zervos with false statements about her,” referring to his claims that all of his accusers were liars looking for “ten minutes of fame.”
“In doing so, he used his national and international bully pulpit to make false factual statements to denigrate and verbally attack Ms. Zervos and the other women who publicly reported his sexual assaults in October 2016,” the lawsuit said.
A judge’s ruling on whether the case can proceed in New York State Supreme Court may come by the end of the year. Zervos’s lawyers have subpoenaed “all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.”
Trump’s attorneys have sought to have the case dismissed, arguing that the president can’t be sued in state court, and that his comments amounted to protected political speech.
Cassandra Searles (2013)
ReplyDeleteThe accusation: In June 2016, Searles, Miss Washington 2013, tagged her former competitors in a Facebook post that read: “Do y’all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn’t look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property?”
Many of the women said they did, and in one reply Searles added, “He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.”
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/putins-daughter-is-connected-to-trumps-commerce-chief-wilbur-ross/
"Paradise Papers revealed several weeks ago that Russian billionaire Kirill Shamanov, the son of a close friend of Putin, does business with Ross — but until Tuesday, the exact connection between Shamanov and Putin was unclear."
"The Paradise Papers already revealed that Ross has earned a substantial sum of money from his dealings with Russia. One of the companies he owned a stake in, a shipping company called Navigator, had a long history of deals with a Russian gas and petrochemicals company co-owned by Shamanov, the Paradise papers revealed.
Shamanov’s petrochemical company is one of the largest in Russia and has reportedly benefited from government favoritism."These aren’t the only connections Ross has had with Russian elites. In 2014, Ross led a takeover of the Bank of Cyprus, whose biggest shareholder at the time was the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. Some years earlier, Rybolovlev had purchased a Florida mansion from Trump for $95 Million."
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/manaforts-business-associates-summoned-by-manhattan-prosecutors-as-trump-campaign-probe-widens/
They all are about to lose their assets. And asses.
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Keith Olbermann Says He’s Retiring From Political Commentary
ReplyDeleteHe wraps up “The Resistance” series by saying he’s ready to enjoy his life again. “I’ve said what I have to say.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-retiring-political-commentary_us_5a1cd3cde4b0e2ddcbb2300c
Pretty much the same as Jon Stewart.
DeleteBurn out. You just can’t immerse yourself in these toxins and then throw them off and go home unscathed.
At some point you need to stop and put yourself, your health and your mental peace of mind ahead of “public service.”
Time for others to step up and take up the banner against the Dotard and his cesspool of minions.
Putin’s daughter is connected to Trump’s Commerce chief Wilbur Ross
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/putins-daughter-is-connected-to-trumps-commerce-chief-wilbur-ross/
“inner ugly” Bro
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/stick-to-the-script-bro-ex-rnc-head-blasts-trump-for-letting-his-inner-ugly-out-at-code-talker-event/
“I think the president trying to be quippish or cute or whatever he was thinking went to a space he didn’t need to go to. Just stay with the script, bro,”" <BERN
Must be very tiring counseling people how to break the law.
ReplyDeleteOT?'
ReplyDelete“Beams is stepping away from her role here at the Department of State and is returning to her home in Boston,” a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
“Effective immediately"
https://thinkprogress.org/state-rexit-tensions-63d64d3977d6/
Just got a look at the White House Christmas card. “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” Yep, Donald being Donald and his war on Christmas shit. That’s what the media is focusing on.
ReplyDeleteMe? I looked at the signatures.
At first I thought Donald had signed for Melania. But on closer inspection, no, her signature is just very, very similar to his. Like. Lie detector going apeshit. Or the recording of an earthquake.
But it’s Barron’s signature that really drew my attention. How old is he supposed to be? I would think he would sign his name much better than that. Donald isn’t going to be able to hide his son’s condition for the next four years. Not unless he has his son’s signature forged by someone else.
Stevie sure looks like Donny.
ReplyDeleteThat chin, that face. Was his Mamma pissing on Donny way back?
The current White House has ethics
ReplyDeletelike a diesel engine has spark plugs.
Ethics lawyer probably dying under an ever growing mound of violations and no one following his advice and recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI’m sure they’ll never miss him.