Fri
Mar 21 2025
06:27 am
By: bizgrrl
President Donald Trump turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom Tuesday [March 11, 2025] in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the car company’s billionaire CEO.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s televised pitch for investors to buy Tesla shares has taken the intermingling of public and private interests into unprecedented territory.
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Richard Painter, who served as chief ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush, says public officials who participated in the event violated standards of conduct that bar federal workers from advancing private interests in their official capacities.
Those rules were again cast aside when Lutnick appeared on Fox to heap further praise on Tesla and its founder.
This administration will stop at nothing to advance there personal funds.
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Add to the lack of ethics in
Add to the lack of ethics in the current federal administration, the Wall Street Journal car critic who "typically avoids sharing his personal car purchase information, lest it be taken as an endorsement or else used against me as proof of some undisclosed bias... has elected to write extensively about his January Tesla car purchase, for his kid.
Ethics? Hah! Such a quaint
Ethics? Hah! Such a quaint notion.