Yesterday, leaks from the ongoing train-wreck-meets-oil-spill that is the Trump Transition Team let it be known that the TTT was seeking top level security clearance for junior, not junior, and Ivanka.
However, this revelation was enough to cause Trump to break out the Tweet of Denial.
Okay then. That’s a relief. It’s a good thing he’s not trying to get “top level security clearance” so his zero-experience offspring can nose into the government at the same time they’re also running his 500 international scams companies in the least blind trust in history. However …
Donald Trump is definitely seeking presidential level security clearance for his son in law, Jared Kushner, who is—despite “I’m staying in Indiana” Mike Pence’s title—pretty much running the transition. Which is something of an issue, because it’s kind of illegal.
If you don’t feel like reading all that fine print, it’s also illegal for Trump to hire his kids. Or his siblings. Or any little Trump cousins or nephews and nieces they can uncover somewhere. There’s a quaint, old-fashioned term for it. It’s called nepotism (and quicker than you can say “Bobby Kennedy,” note that the law dates from 1967).
Sure. Maybe Trump can try to have that law changed, since the fact that he appears only to trust children not named Tiffany is definitely putting a crimp in his filling those 4,000 executive branch slots, but the law is not changed yet. He’s just ignoring it.
Of course, Trump can still hire Marc Mezvinsky. Who is Mezvinsky? That’s Chelsea Clinton’s husband. And if you didn’t remember that, maybe it’s because Hillary Clinton didn’t have her son-in-law stepping in to make every decision of the campaign and attending presidential daily briefings.
Meanwhile, the guy Trump is trying to clear is the one who seems intent on firing anyone with the slightest hint of experience.
Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner is at the center of the "infighting" inside President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, multiple sources tell CNN. …
Former Congressman Mike Rogers said Tuesday he parted ways with Trump's transition team, removing an establishment national security voice from the planning process of the next president's cabinet.
Rogers was told Monday on the phone that he was out, according to a source familiar with the transition. The source said this was part of an effort to replace the transition team members associated with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who previously headed up the transition team's efforts until being replaced by Vice President-elect Mike Pence.