{"id":779,"date":"2017-01-13T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=779"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:45:14","slug":"ethics-or-the-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Ethics, or the lack thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Trump businesses are going to donate the profits from foreign governments directly to the Treasury to avoid the appearance of impropriety.\u00a0And they release this information to the public &#8211; the receipts, the cost analysis to determine profit, and a copy of the transfer so donations can be verified? But let&#8217;s assume that becomes part of their public accounting processes &#8211; that the Trump Organization now has a web page\u00a0with this accounting, along with\u00a0an image of the cancelled donation cheque. How does this avoid\u00a0the appearance (and the fact) of corruption??<\/p>\n<p>Buying\u00a0influence is not limited to foreign\u00a0governments, and to imply otherwise is insulting.\u00a0Boeing wants a lucrative contract, so\u00a0<em>they<\/em> book all of their corporate conferences at Trump properties. Hell, Syria wants the US to leave them alone so the second cousin of every high-ranking official rent out a floor and a ballroom for the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Trump businesses are going to donate the profits from foreign governments directly to the Treasury to avoid the appearance of impropriety.\u00a0And they release this information to the public &#8211; the receipts, the cost analysis to determine profit, and a copy of the transfer so donations can be verified? But let&#8217;s assume that becomes part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}