Trump Lickspittle Sean Spicer On Conflicts Of Interest

Spicer is communications director and chief strategist of the Republican National Committee -- and, God help us, touted for the position of Trump's press secretary. I don't know if I can handle seeing that guy on TV every day for years -- the sight of Ari Fleischer still makes me want to vomit.

“Conflicts of interest arise when you’re sneaky about it, when you’re shady about it. If you tell everyone, here’s what’s going on, here’s the process, here’s the people who are playing a role, that’s being transparent.”

–Sean Spicer, CNN, Dec. 14, 2016.

Or as Charlie Pierce stated it on All In With Chris Hayes:

If we want to sell Yellowstone to Gazprom, as long as it's an open auction, we're okay with it.

Hayes responded:

So much of this is behind the cloak of the corporate structure that they have that it is -- from the outside, can be very hard to penetrate and know exactly what's happening, which is precisely why Spicer's own standard is -- there's no way they're going to meet even the standard that Spicer is laying out.

Trump can't meet the lowest of bars. He's a walking tangle of conflicts of interest -- but it seems as though Trump supporters just don't care.

Here's another analogy, proposed by Hunter at Daily Kos:

Bank robberies work the same way: Sneak in after dark and you've got a problem, but as long as you boldly enter during business hours and say "Hello, I am currently robbing this bank" there's not a thing they can do to stop you. It makes it all legal and transparent!

Presidential press secretary? The mind boggles.