Trump Ethics Monitor worth checking out

Supporters of President Donald Trump have been led to believe he has only their interests at heart and his businesses have nothing to gain from his presidency.

National Public Radio has established a Trump Ethics Monitor to check progress on 10 pledges he made regarding ethics. We can’t allow this to slip beneath the radar because, as Kathleen Clark, a leading independent expert on legal ethics and government corruption said on npr.org, the ethics concern is a broad one.

“...We don’t want the government to endorse Trump businesses and we don’t want public office to be used to enrich Trump business,” she said.

Here’s one example of how little progress Trump has made toward fulfilling his pledges. According to npr.org:

Trump’s lawyer, Sheri Dillon, said on Jan. 11, “No communications of the Trump Organization ... will reference or be tied to President-elect Trump’s role as president.”

Yet on Jan. 21, 2017, a photo of the hotel’s staff in front of Trump’s International Hotel with the caption “Thank you Mr. President!” was published on Trump’s International Hotel’s official Facebook page and Instagram account.

Check out the Trump Ethics Monitor on NPR. Until now, Trump has wisely refrained from branding them a “fake news” organization because NPR is widely acknowledged as one of the most reliable and accurate sources of bipartisan information.

But give him time. His strategy is to deceive, deflect and blame others for his failures. Exactly what a dictator does.

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