Trump Wants His Kids to Have Top Security Clearance

Or knows that he can't keep his mouth shut about anything and will blab national secrets to them lol.

As much as he likes to tweet, maybe we should all apply for top security clearance.

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Squire, what are you attempting to say with this reply? Please enlighten me.

 

Calling them kids is misleading at best and looks only to invoke emotional responses that are really undeserved. Very poor reporting.

 

Despite reports suggesting the contrary, a transition team official says Donald Trump did not request or begin paperwork to have his children gain top-level security clearance, according to a pool report.

The official told the pool of reporters Monday that it wasn't something he was expecting right now.

Three of the president-elect's children — Donald, Eric and Ivanka — as well as his son-in-law Jared Kushner, were named to Trump's "Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee," which includes high-profile advisers, donors and congressional lawmakers.

CBS News reported Monday that Trump had asked the White House for permission to give his family top security clearance, raising questions about possible conflicts of interest, considering his children's involvement in a business network the president-elect arranged and called a "blind trust."

Trump's children said in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night that they will not hold any formal role their father's administration.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...d-trump-security-clearance-children/93856438/

 

Looks like the nepotism law was put in place in 1967, after JFK's time in office.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110

(3)
“relative” means, with respect to a public official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister.

 

This has been debunked. He did not ask for his kids to have clearance.

 

I'm by no means a Trump fan, but I think that Presidential appointments should be exempt from nepotism policies. If you want someone you can trust, sometimes a family member is the best person to help you.

Of course, I don't think people should be appointed if they are unqualified, but Trump's children have appropriate backgrounds for many appointments.

I do think, however, some significant distance needs to be between the family business and the nation's government. IMO, pick a side but don't try to do both.