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With all the concerns surrounding a Trump presidency, specifically, how he’ll separate himself from his business empire and focus on his new duties, loyal Trump toady, Newt Gingrich has come up with a stellar idea:
Change the ethics laws to suit Donald Trump!
No, I didn’t just make that up, but if you’re slamming your forehead against your keyboard now, I apologize.
Referring to a law that could prevent Trump from hiring his daughter and son-in-law to serve in his administration, Gingrich said on “The Diane Rehm Show” Monday morning: “In the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the White House the way he wants to. He also has, frankly, the power of the pardon.”
“It is a totally open power, and he could simply say, ‘Look, I want them to be my advisers. I pardon them if anyone finds them to have behaved against the rules. Period.’ Technically, under the Constitution, he has that level of authority,” he said, according to Politico.
Let me see a show of hands of those who know, beyond a doubt, that had Hillary Clinton won, Gingrich would have been saying the exact opposite, had Clinton alluded to hiring Chelsea and her husband.
Gingrich also suggested that Congress change ethics laws so Trump can avoid any conflicts of interest that his global business empire may pose.
“We’ve never seen this kind of wealth in the White House, and so traditional rules don’t work,” he said.
“We’re going to have to think up a whole new approach.”
Translation: He’s rich. The laws don’t apply to him, as they would the random, working class riff-raff.
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Uh, WHAT? Newt Gingrich: Ethics Laws Should be Changed to Accommodate Trump https://t.co/uvXK7EyTuT
— RedState (@RedState) December 20, 2016
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