Overcoming Trump: recipes for reform Republicans will never allow

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The depth of Trump’s corruption is familiar but still astonishing when presented in the whole. Alas, his party shares it

The book identifies Trump’s original sin as his refusal to put his businesses in a blind trust, which led to no less than 3,400 conflicts of interest. It didn’t help that the federal conflict of interests statute specifically exempts the president. Under the first president of modern times with no interest in “the legitimacy” or “the appearance of legitimacy of the presidency”, this left practically nothing off limits.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...iew-donald-trump-reform-republicans-democrats

 

[BidenPresident]

"The great abuses of power by Richard Nixon’s administration which are remembered collectively as Watergate had one tremendous benefit: they inspired a raft of legislation which significantly strengthened American democracy.

This new book from the Brookings Institution, subtitled How to Restore Ethics, The Rule of Law and Democracy, recalls those far-away days of a functioning legislative process.