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demmiblue

(36,866 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:42 AM Jul 2020

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 Trump’s 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 president’s 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 week’s 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. Trump’s 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 OP
what pandemic? I thought he said there was no pandemic mucifer Jul 2020 #1
Except when he "always knew" central scrutinizer Jul 2020 #6
It is "complicated" safeinOhio Jul 2020 #2
Trump was "focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters." sop Jul 2020 #3
Hard to write a report when there's so much golfing to do soothsayer Jul 2020 #4
And gallavanting off to Tulsa and Mount Rushmore to spread hate and covid. Tanuki Jul 2020 #5
What BS. Trump does no work on such documents elias7 Jul 2020 #7

sop

(10,213 posts)
3. Trump was "focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters."
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:49 AM
Jul 2020

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.

elias7

(4,015 posts)
7. What BS. Trump does no work on such documents
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 09:28 AM
Jul 2020

That is the job of an accountant, who is tied up with COVID for the last 55 days why?

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