Trump transition team turned down ethics training

[HomerJS]

We don't need no stinkin' ethics training. We'll let our own people do it. Looks like you get what you pay for.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/white-house-ethics-training/index.html

 

[Homerboy]

That's so weird -- I'm required to take those at my job. Didn't know I could just turn them down

 

[UberNeuman]

The Trump Team heard "ethics" and thought it meant "ethnics," and then they got scared.

 

[amenx]

We don't need no stinkin' ethics training. We'll let our own people do it. Looks like you get what you pay for.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/white-house-ethics-training/index.html

I guess it would've made them feel uncomfortable knowing the nature of their jobs.

 

[Grooveriding]

They probably didn't even understand the concept of ethics. It's like offering piano lessons to a squirrel, totally alien concept.

 

[justoh]

So they should have spent $1m on training you'd also argue they would never have used/followed anyway, since they're such bad people. Makes sense.

 

[1sikbITCH]

This is an attempt to escape blame down the road. "Nobody knew how complicated ethics rules were!"

 

[Homerboy]

So they should have spent $1m on training you'd also argue they would never have used/followed anyway, since they're such bad people. Makes sense.

The point is to follow the lessons learned in training. So if they spent $1M and followed it, we wouldn't complain. If they spent $1M and didn't follow it then we'd complain. By NOT doing it, they left us no option but to complain. They chose the "Well, we aren't going to follow any ethics rules so we'll just save you a $1M (while we waste billions)" option.

 

[Sonikku]

If the GoP Congresses' earlier behavior this year is any indication, the Republican party in general has issues with the thing called ethics.

 

[zinfamous]

The Trump Team heard "ethics" and thought it meant "ethnics," and then they got scared.

crap. I came to repost what I thought was my joke in the other thread, in this thread; and now I see that you posted it ahead of me. Now I feel bad.

 

[hal2kilo]

We don't need no stinkin' ethics training. We'll let our own people do it. Looks like you get what you pay for.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/white-house-ethics-training/index.html

Well, if you don't take the training when you do ethical violations the first thing to come out of their mouths will be I never had any training.

 

[Paratus]

I believe the ethics office is where they are hiding the ACA replacement bill. It's why no one in congress can find it.

 

[interchange]

No great comment, except I chuckled at this quote:

The Trump administration has been embarrassed by a number of high-profile vetting issues

-- regarding the administration that promises to "vet the hell out of" refugees and immigrants and that there is no way bad hombres will make it in this country.

 

[trenchfoot]

Ethics to the Trump Admin. is like regulations to the banksters and Wall St. barracudas.

The shit just gets in the way of doing things the way they like, which usually means that a lot of innocent folks need to be fleeced for the fleecers to stay warm and cozy.

 

[brycejones]

So they should have spent $1m on training you'd also argue they would never have used/followed anyway, since they're such bad people. Makes sense.

Well that was a lame ass attempt at diversion. Do they not have ethics rules in your home country?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

crap. I came to repost what I thought was my joke in the other thread, in this thread; and now I see that you posted it ahead of me. Now I feel bad.

Don't feel too bad. You can still be education secretary.

 

[IronWing]

Don't feel too bad. You can still be education secretary.

If he has $200 million to drop. Inflation is an ugly thing. I remember when Kentucky legislators could be bought for $50.

 

[Meghan54]

Board should be called anti trump lol

And what to refer to you by? Chinese cuck?

 

[Fern]

From the OP's link:

The Trump administration said Thursday that the White House Counsel's office did provide political appointees and executive branch staff ethics training when they came into office.
"Required trainings, including ethics, were provided to appointees by in-house counsels prior to assuming office," said Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokeswoman. "It was a requirement for everyone. In-house counsel has been taking it very seriously from the beginning."

Thread title seems to be misleading. The article actually seems to be about who provided the ethical training, not that they didn't have any.

Fern

 

[MongGrel]

Well, if you don't take the training when you do ethical violations the first thing to come out of their mouths will be I never had any training.

This.

Plausible Deniability, in many jobs it is a requirement.

So who did provide the training, in regards to the OP ?

Just another "because we said it happened" in the current administration.

 

[zinfamous]

Don't feel too bad. You can still be education secretary.

Well, for the first time in my life, I feel like I am suddenly over-qualified for something.

 

[kage69]

Like trying to talk an Amish guy into a rotate/balance and alignment special.

 

[pcgeek11]

This was funny. Like the Democrats have ethics... or any politician for that matter. LOL.

Then Fern pointed out that they did in fact have training.