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Where's Trump's Financial Disclosure? The White House Blames the Pandemic
The annual report was due last week under federal ethics rules, but the White House says it needs more time. The president was already given a 45-day extension.
President Trumps annual financial disclosure report was due to be released more than a week ago. But the filing, the only official public document detailing his personal finances, was not published, and neither the White House nor federal ethics officials offered a public explanation.
The White House addressed the issue on Wednesday night. An official said Mr. Trump had requested a deadline extension because the report was complicated and the president had been focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters.
The report, required under federal ethics rules, provides a partial view of the presidents assets and debts and the performance of his family business. It was originally due in May, but Mr. Trump and all White House employees were given a 45-day extension until June 29 because of the pandemic.
The White House official on Wednesday said Mr. Trump had been given an additional 45 days, but the president intends to file as soon as possible.
Last weeks deadline passed without any word from the White House or the Office of Government Ethics, beyond the release of a separate disclosure report by Vice President Mike Pence. In past years, the ethics office has posted Mr. Trumps filing online the day after the deadline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure.html
President Trumps annual financial disclosure report was due to be released more than a week ago. But the filing, the only official public document detailing his personal finances, was not published, and neither the White House nor federal ethics officials offered a public explanation.
The White House addressed the issue on Wednesday night. An official said Mr. Trump had requested a deadline extension because the report was complicated and the president had been focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters.
The report, required under federal ethics rules, provides a partial view of the presidents assets and debts and the performance of his family business. It was originally due in May, but Mr. Trump and all White House employees were given a 45-day extension until June 29 because of the pandemic.
The White House official on Wednesday said Mr. Trump had been given an additional 45 days, but the president intends to file as soon as possible.
Last weeks deadline passed without any word from the White House or the Office of Government Ethics, beyond the release of a separate disclosure report by Vice President Mike Pence. In past years, the ethics office has posted Mr. Trumps filing online the day after the deadline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure.html
"... the president had been focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters.
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Where's Trump's Financial Disclosure? The White House Blames the Pandemic (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jul 2020
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mucifer
(23,556 posts)1. what pandemic? I thought he said there was no pandemic
central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)6. Except when he "always knew"
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOVC5G4I5B
Too stupid to realize this was a damning boast that emphasized his two months of inaction.
Too stupid to realize this was a damning boast that emphasized his two months of inaction.
safeinOhio
(32,702 posts)2. It is "complicated"
sop
(10,213 posts)3. Trump was "focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters."
We can all sleep better at night knowing Trump did such a good job on the COVID-19 crisis, and responded so effectively to the Putin Bounty thing.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)4. Hard to write a report when there's so much golfing to do
And tweeting
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)5. And gallavanting off to Tulsa and Mount Rushmore to spread hate and covid.
elias7
(4,015 posts)7. What BS. Trump does no work on such documents
That is the job of an accountant, who is tied up with COVID for the last 55 days why?