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Source: New York Times
Trump Declines to Release List of His Visitors at Mar-a-Lago
By ERIC LIPTON SEPT. 15, 2017
WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Friday escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release a comprehensive list of individuals visiting with President Trump at his familys Mar-a-Lago resort during the days he has spent at the private club in Palm Beach, Fla., this year.
The surprising move by the Department of Justice, which had been ordered in July to make the visitors log public, came after weeks of promotion by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the liberal nonprofit group known as CREW, that it would soon be getting the Mar-a-Lago visitors logs.
Instead, on Friday the Justice Department released a State Department list of just 22 names all of them members of the delegation of the Japanese prime minister who visited the club in February for a meeting with President Trump.
The dispute centers on what kind of records related to private individuals visiting the president should be open to public inspection. The refusal to disclose the full list of presidential visitors names also brings renewed scrutiny to the presidents private business empire and raises questions about why the administration would want to withhold information that could reveal possible conflicts of interest.
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By ERIC LIPTON SEPT. 15, 2017
WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Friday escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release a comprehensive list of individuals visiting with President Trump at his familys Mar-a-Lago resort during the days he has spent at the private club in Palm Beach, Fla., this year.
The surprising move by the Department of Justice, which had been ordered in July to make the visitors log public, came after weeks of promotion by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the liberal nonprofit group known as CREW, that it would soon be getting the Mar-a-Lago visitors logs.
Instead, on Friday the Justice Department released a State Department list of just 22 names all of them members of the delegation of the Japanese prime minister who visited the club in February for a meeting with President Trump.
The dispute centers on what kind of records related to private individuals visiting the president should be open to public inspection. The refusal to disclose the full list of presidential visitors names also brings renewed scrutiny to the presidents private business empire and raises questions about why the administration would want to withhold information that could reveal possible conflicts of interest.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/us/politics/trump-declines-to-release-list-of-his-visitors-at-mar-a-lago.html
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Trump Declines to Release List of His Visitors at Mar-a-Lago (Original Post)
Eugene
Sep 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. This is a dictatorship now, we will be told what he wants us to be told
thegoose
(3,115 posts)3. I'm afraid you're right
Even MSNBC is fawning over the footage of the kid moving the White House lawn with the creep stalking behind him and not talking enough about this.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. I suggest a pre-dawn FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago nt
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)4. SWAMPY