The Daily Beast Latest Articles | Top Trump Goon Caught on Video Admitting to Grazing for Dollars by Mary Papenfuss

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A video of Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior Karen Budd‑Falen, recorded at a Congressional Western Caucus event, shows her openly discussing how she helped shape grazing policy that would benefit her own and her husband’s cattle operations—owned across Nevada and Wyoming and grazing on roughly 250,000 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Her remarks, which include plans to lease all unused BLM allotments and to relax limits on private grazing, have triggered calls from senators, the watchdog group Campaign for Accountability, and ethics experts for a congressional investigation into possible violations of conflict‑of‑interest and ethics rules, especially given that a prior Trump‑era ethics waiver barred her from working on grazing policy, a restriction she now appears to have overturned. The Interior Department maintains she is in compliance with legal and ethical standards, while critics argue her admissions constitute a clear financial conflict of interest.

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Do foreign gifts to Trump that align with policy changes raise ethical concerns? : NPR

‘NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter about gifts from foreign governments or corporations that President Trump has accepted.’

#USPol #Trump #RichardPainter #Ethics
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5607149/do-foreign-gifts-to-trump-that-align-with-policy-changes-raise-ethical-concerns

#RichardPainter former chief White House #Ethics lawyer in the George W. #Bush administration (2005 to 2007) was excellent on Friday's #AriMelber show #TheBeat with his opinion on the CORRUPT MESS that is the #SCOTUS

Do you remember the days when some #Conservatives actually had common-sense ethical viewpoints based on indisputable human rights and liberty?

Those days appear to be long gone.

https://youtu.be/v-H-eAU3SA8

@amyfou

Well, of course the CREW staffers say the behavior is ethically unacceptable; the thing you need to remember is that they say that about every corrupt government official. #sarcasm #ethics #CREW #RichardPainter #CitizensForResponsibilityAndEthicsInWashington