Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest

Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest

https://www.citizen.org/article/tracker-trump-appointees-in-the-pocket-of-big-corporations/


Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, characterized Trump's Cabinet picks so far as "chaotic evil" and warned that their conflicts of interest could bring horrible consequences for the American public.

"Corruption is not only bad in and of itself," Hauser told the Institute for Public Accuracy on Tuesday. "It's also a bad thing that makes other terrible things more likely to happen. If you corrupt the enforcement of environmental protection laws, people will be poisoned by the water they drink and air they breathe. If you corrupt the Department of Labor, workplace safety will collapse over time and wage protections will disappear."

"That's what happened under the last Trump administration. This is going to be worse," Hauser warned. "Food safety issues, automobile safety with driverless cars, rail safety—these are all risks that the Trump team will be taking with the lives of ordinary people."

I expected this, but yeah, the fools that believed Trump cared about the working class might get a reality check if they think he will make their life better. Trump and his buddies have different visions, and it's squeezing more dollars into their pockets at the expense, and safety, and healthcare of the rest.

 

If he accepts the offer, just add another billionaire and big Trump donor with conflicts of interest to the list.

Trump Offers Key Pentagon Job to Billionaire Whose Firm Trained Khashoggi's Murderers

Stephen Feinberg is co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which owns a company that provided training to members of the hit squad that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The private equity billionaire is a major donor to the president-elect and has "investments in defense companies that maintain lucrative Pentagon contracts." The Post observed that Cerberus "has invested in hypersonic missiles" and "previously owned the private military contractor DynCorp."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-feinberg-pentagon