‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/trump-conflict-of-interest?CMP=share_btn_url
Eisen has experience dealing with knotty ethical issues. He was special counsel for ethics during Barack Obama’s first year in the White House.
Obama notes in his autobiography, A Promised Land, that Eisen earned himself the title of Dr No, so strict was his approach to conflicts of interest. He would tell White House officials hoping to attend outside events that “if it sounds fun, you can’t go”.
Obama Era, what a world apart. I have experienced looting myself. It nuts your stomach and makes you feel extremely unsafe. It almost killed me. Especially if no one helps. Clearly, there are great lessons to be learned here. Justice is never to be overlooked for anyone. Ethics matter, so does justice in strategic terms and times by strategic means. I gave those strategic warnings on Trump and then embraced it because of the personal looting the democrats ignored because Jill Biden seemed the unelected president who didn’t want to give up unapponted power at their expense. Such great lessons to learn. I believe there are more lessons to come.
I will debut longer form personal, experiential, and spiritual essays next year. I want to continue to do meaningful work. Help me conquer those who steal life, labor and liberty. Thank you.
When I realized comedy can be described as the things I say and do as well as the things I don’t say and do, I knew it was for me. I was seeing and hearing all kinds of shit that couldn’t be happening in the dreams and the nightmare we call society. I believe they call that crazy. You don’t need any proof. Someone just has to appear to have more potential at succeeding than you and you can make shit up about them. Better than that, you can plot to make them what you say they are. There’s always a ridicule am yet to encounter and the punches just keep coming. It is no miracle I survived. I am now more than qualified to tell comedically twisted true tales as a part of the jazz music festival, half time music. half time comedy. it is hilarious. In fact it is now a comedic-jazz music festival. Your receipts for music by ril and the free books for life cause mean the world to me. Help achieve justice.
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