President Donald Trump has fierce criticism of his resignation by David Huitema, the head of the American office of government ethics that wanted that only officially in the role Weeks.
Donald K. Sherman, the executive director of the Watchdog Group Citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington, said in a statement That “by firing the head of the office of government ethics, President Trump continues his purification of independent officials who hold him and his administration responsible for the law and ethical standards.”
“This follows his resignation of the head of the office of special counsel and 17 inspectors general,” Sherman continued. “Together, these actions will streamlines all efforts that he and his administration make to personally take advantage, to install loyalists and to prevent supervision of corruption and waste.”
“According to all the instructions, Trump is planning to run a lawless administration and these unprecedented movements are an alarming first step to take those plans into action,” Sherman added.
Caitlin MacNeal, of the project on government control, described Huitema’s expulsion of the Independent Agency (which,, For each government websites“Provides supervision, policy and guidance to the executive power with regard to ethical laws and policy”) as ‘the last in a series of dismissals that are directly aimed at the accountability offices in the executive,’ reported CBS News.
“The dismissals remove our systems from checks and balances at a time when the richest man in the world is active with enormous and unprecedented financial conflicts,” said MacNeal, referring to tech billionaire Elon Musk and his role that leads the spending -slashing , non-official Ministry of Efficiency of the government in Trump’s White House.
“It is therefore particularly alarming that the administration has dismissed the civil servant in specifically accused of police ethics,” MacNeal added.
Rep. Daniel Goldman (DN.Y.) meanwhile asked on social media: “Do you see a pattern? Trump systematically removes any form of accountability: inspectors -general, public prosecutors and FBI agents, and now the director of the Office of Government Ethics. Freeing the road for Lyin ‘Kash Patel to become his Hatchet man. “
Other critics on social media agreed:
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