Trump gets to decide if his transition team will have a code of ethics; Washington Post, 11/16/16

Lisa Rein and Elise Viebeck, Washington Post; Trump gets to decide if his transition team will have a code of ethics:

"With questions swirling around potential conflicts of interest for lobbyists and family members on Donald Trump’s transition team, ethics experts say it’s crucial that the team building the new administration have a formal code of principles.

But here’s a little-understood fact about presidential transitions: They don’t have to follow a code of ethics unless they want to, and even if they do, they come up with the terms themselves. When Trump communications director Jason Miller was asked whether one existed Monday, he said he was not sure about the existence of an ethics code, but said he would get back to us."