They also reveal a president who is granting ethics waivers at an unusually rapid pace. The 17 senior White House appointees were all granted waivers in the past four months. White House Counsel Don McGhan was one of six lawyers who joined the Trump administration from the law firm Jones Day. In addition to the boldfaced names, four staffers were granted waivers to deal with issues they recently worked on as lobbyists in the private sector. In a statement Wednesday to The Washington Post, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said the release of the waivers reflects “the president’s commitment to the American people to be transparent.”“The White House Counsel’s Office worked closely with all White House officials to avoid conflicts arising from their former places of employment or investment holdings,” Walters said.

Source: Huffington Post June 01, 2017 06:27 UTC