{"id":6070,"date":"2021-09-13T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6070"},"modified":"2021-09-13T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:12:12","slug":"why-obamas-former-ethics-czar-is-highly-critical-of-hunter-bidens-lucrative-art-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama\u2019s former ethics czar is highly critical of Hunter Biden\u2019s lucrative art sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;The recommendation I\u2019ve been pushing all along is you should be promising that if you happen to learn who one of the buyers is, you\u2019re gonna immediately tell the public, \u201cWe learned this.\u201d And then if that buyer gets a meeting with any political appointee in the government, or any community \u2014 email, telephone, letter, in-person meeting, Zoom meeting, teleconference \u2014 that they will notify the public every time that buyer has an interaction with a political appointee in this administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now they may feel that\u2019s ridiculous, because they don\u2019t feel that anybody is gonna get preferential treatment. And it certainly seems like the president\u2019s supporters on Twitter think that. The problem is that that is absolutely the opposite of government ethics. Government ethics isn\u2019t, \u201cLet\u2019s assume everybody is good and will never do anything wrong and trust blindly that they will never do anything wrong with no mechanisms or safeguards to check on that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And frankly, half the country \u2014 nearly half the country \u2014 voted against this guy, and if [Biden] wants to be the president of the entire country \u2014 unlike the last president, who seemed to only want to be the president of his supporters \u2014 then he owes it to those people who don\u2019t necessarily trust him that he\u2019s gonna be transparent and they can gauge for themselves whether these people are gaining access to government.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/8\/3\/22601671\/hunter-biden-art-sales-walter-shaub\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/8\/3\/22601671\/hunter-biden-art-sales-walter-shaub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The recommendation I\u2019ve been pushing all along is you should be promising that if you happen to learn who one of the buyers is, you\u2019re gonna immediately tell the public, \u201cWe learned this.\u201d And then if that buyer gets a meeting with any political appointee in the government, or any community \u2014 email, telephone, letter, in-person meeting, Zoom meeting, teleconference \u2014 that they will notify the public every time that buyer has an interaction with a political appointee in this administration.<\/p>\n<p>Now they may feel that\u2019s ridiculous, because they don\u2019t feel that anybody is gonna get preferential treatment. And it certainly seems like the president\u2019s supporters on Twitter think that. The problem is that that is absolutely the opposite of government ethics. Government ethics isn\u2019t, \u201cLet\u2019s assume everybody is good and will never do anything wrong and trust blindly that they will never do anything wrong with no mechanisms or safeguards to check on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And frankly, half the country \u2014 nearly half the country \u2014 voted against this guy, and if [Biden] wants to be the president of the entire country \u2014 unlike the last president, who seemed to only want to be the president of his supporters \u2014 then he owes it to those people who don\u2019t necessarily trust him that he\u2019s gonna be transparent and they can gauge for themselves whether these people are gaining access to government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,607],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}