Top U.S. Ethics Official Assails Trump Business Plan as Weak
- OGE says Trump should comply with higher ethics standard
- GSA says reviewing Trump’s plans regarding Washington hotel
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In an unusually frank statement Wednesday, the top U.S. government ethics officer declared that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to place his business in a trust without divesting doesn’t meet standards for the highest levels of public service in the U.S.
The concerns, expressed by Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub just hours after Trump announced his plan, underlined the extent to which several ethics-watchers in government and on both sides of the political aisle worry that the Trump Organization could influence the president’s decision-making and weaken ethics standards across the government.