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POTUS ethical standards have reached an all-time low. They are lower than any of the American presidents elected over the past 50 years.
Some say Trump's ethics are lower than Richard Nixon's, and most folks know what happened to that Republican President.
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NPR.org - Ethics Report On Trump Administration: The Most Unethical Presidency Steve Inskeep talks to Richard Painter, top ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, and Norman Eisen, top ethics lawyer for President Obama. They argue Trump`s administration has been unethical.
Marketplace - Ethics Be Damned: More than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct
Ethics experts are alarmed at the drumbeat of revelations about travel, business holdings and investments, warning that public trust and reliable government are at risk. A former ethics official asks: `If the boss doesn`t care, why should you, then?`
USA TODAY - Ex-lobbyists swarm Trump administration, despite 'drain the swamp' pledge
Dozens of former lobbyists now work in agencies they recently sought to influence, a tally by a Democratic group shows.
The New Yorker - How Trump Broke the Office of Government Ethics
Ryan Lizza speaks with Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics, about the shattering of norms by the Trump Administration.
TheHill - Ethics issues pile up for Trump Cabinet officials The controversies have become a major headache for the White House.
ProPublica - What We Found in Trump’s Drained Swamp: Hundreds of Ex-Lobbyists and D.C. Insiders — ProPublica
For the first time, political appointee and federal financial disclosure information is publicly searchable.
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