"A spokesman for Ms. Haley said plans to buy the curtains were made in 2016, during the Obama administration. Ms. Haley had no say in the purchase, he said." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/nikki-haley-curtains.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/15/648160089/emoluments-lawsuit-moves-a-step-closer-to-trump Emoluments Lawsuit Moves A Step Closer to Trump The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia want the legal authority to get any communications between President Trump and officials of foreign or U.S. state governments pertaining to his Trump International Hotel near the White House.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ief-finds-improper-use-of-government-vehicles Probe of FEMA Head Cites Improper Vehicle Use for Trips Home https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/dhs-secretary-fema-chief-misused-cars-but-wont-lose-job DHS secretary: FEMA chief misused cars, but won’t lose job https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/brock-long-fema-repay-government-vehicles.html FEMA Chief Brock Long Must Reimburse U.S. for Misuse of Agency Vehicles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.32fd4f893cd1 Ben Carson’s HUD: Political loyalty required, no experience necessary The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded promotions and pay increases to five political operatives with no housing policy experience within their first months on the job, demonstrating what government watchdogs and career staff describe as a premium put on loyalty over expertise. The raises, documented in a Washington Post analysis of HUD political hires, resulted in annual salaries between $98,000 and $155,000 for the five appointees, all of whom had worked on Donald Trump’s or Ben Carson’s presidential campaigns. Three of them did not list bachelor’s degrees on their résumés. The political hires were among at least 24 people without evident housing policy experience who were appointed to the best-paying political positions at HUD, an agency charged with serving the poorest Americans. They account for a third of the 70 HUD appointees at the upper ranks of the federal government, with salaries above $94,000, according to the Post review of agency records.
The situation with political appointees is the same under every administration. It was no different under Obama.