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riversedge

(70,461 posts)
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:40 PM Jan 2019

Trump's America Is Becoming More Corrupt, Report Says: 'Erosion of Ethical Norms at the Highest Leve







Trump’s America Is Becoming More Corrupt, Report Says: ‘Erosion of Ethical Norms at the Highest Levels of Power’



By Shane Croucher On 1/29/19 at 5:39 AM



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Under President Donald Trump, the United States has received its worst score on a global corruption index in seven years, according to a new report.

The United States scored 71 on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018, a fall of four points since 2017 and the nation's lowest score since 2011. Transparency International is an anti-corruption watchdog that tracks interactions between money and politics worldwide and ranks countries based on perceived corruption in the public sector.

Ranked 22nd in the world, the United States is no longer within the top 20 countries deemed the least corrupt.

“This decline comes at a time when the U.S. is experiencing threats to its system of checks and balances as well as an erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power,” the report states, listing the United States as a country to watch.

The less corrupt a country’s public sector is, the closer its index figure is to 100. The index uses a number of surveys and assessments of corruption by other reputable researchers to reach its figures.

The U.S. Office of Government Ethics did not respond immediately to a request for comment..........................




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Trump's America Is Becoming More Corrupt, Report Says: 'Erosion of Ethical Norms at the Highest Leve (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2019 OP
What a shock! thegoose Jan 2019 #1
He is a shining example Andy823 Jan 2019 #2
the mafia don regime bdamomma Jan 2019 #3
No this is worse than Putin malaise Jan 2019 #10
This what happens when instead of draining the swamp you flood it with raw sewage. riversedge Jan 2019 #4
They're just now figuring that out??? GoCubsGo Jan 2019 #5
purge Trumputin and the Russiapublicans Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #6
Putin calls those Americans bdamomma Jan 2019 #7
On the plus side is the nation's REACTION. Hortensis Jan 2019 #8
I don't remember reading anything like this under Obama, or Clinton, or and I gag at these words... Stuart G Jan 2019 #9
That jerk has never met an ethic he liked. akraven Jan 2019 #11

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
2. He is a shining example
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:50 PM
Jan 2019

For every racist, nazi, KKK, con man and other degenerates in the country. He belongs in prison.

malaise

(269,316 posts)
10. No this is worse than Putin
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 06:11 PM
Jan 2019

This is a kakistocracy in every sense of the word. Putin knows what he is doing and is very good at it. This fucker is just an incompetent scoundrel.

riversedge

(70,461 posts)
4. This what happens when instead of draining the swamp you flood it with raw sewage.
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:19 PM
Jan 2019






This what happens when instead of draining the swamp you flood it with raw sewage.

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GoCubsGo

(32,103 posts)
5. They're just now figuring that out???
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:26 PM
Jan 2019

Have they been sleeping for the past three years??? He's Mussolini Reincarnated. Just call him Il Douché.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,560 posts)
6. purge Trumputin and the Russiapublicans
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:28 PM
Jan 2019

Putin has more than one pet in our government. Moscow Mitch and the Russiapublicans in the Senate seem to have developed an addiction to Russian oligarch money. See sanctions, Deripaska, NRA, and Russian oil.

bdamomma

(63,962 posts)
7. Putin calls those Americans
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:32 PM
Jan 2019

who have switched sides, Putin's Patriots.

Putin seeking revenge on us for breaking up the Soviet Union. He is accomplishing his revenge on us. It's a matter of time before he goes down too.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. On the plus side is the nation's REACTION.
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jan 2019

Reaction is seldom actually equal and opposite, but it is inevitable.

Democrats hadn't had to make a huge battle against corruption our major priority for several decades, various fixes here and there, but... Now, as Republicans have gone far beyond anything we had to face before, and their institutionalization of corruption has become a major threat to democracy, putting an end to it has once against become a huge, existential priority.

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
9. I don't remember reading anything like this under Obama, or Clinton, or and I gag at these words...
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 06:06 PM
Jan 2019

Bush Jr....Now Bush Jr. was also stupid..but he didn't think he was brilliant like Dopey Donald. Dopey Donald is the cause of the corruption at the highest levels. Simply because Dopey Donald is deeply corrupt. Most of the country knows it, and Dopey Donald has done absolutely...nothing to disprove this. His actions almost prove he is corrupt beyond words.
...While some of us thought he might improve in this position, he has actually gotten worse. The key to worse is all the lies. He never stops, and he doesn't care. It is as if he doesn't know what the job is, or who he represents in this job. And Dopey Donald really doesn't care if he represents the rest of us, or himself.
He has totally lost focus on what the job is, and who it represents.
...He thinks it is totally about him, and what he says and does. And that perception is the problem, was the problem, and will always be the problem with Dopey Donald.

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