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roPublicaโs new disclosure database (spanning thousands of records) spotlights how senior Trump administration officials can retain financial ties to the sectors they oversee โespecially in defence contracting (Golden Dome) and crypto policyโ while ethics guardrails and watchdog capacity are being weakened.
โEthics is in the toilet.โ
Virginia Canter, Democracy Defenders Fund.
โI found out nobody cared, and Iโm allowed to.โ
Donald Trump, speaking to The New York Times, about his familyโs business dealings.
โThis is what President Eisenhower worried about in the 1960s.โ
Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer (George W. Bush administration).
โWhen you see these types of close connections between the regulated community and the new regulators, it raises a yellow flag.โ
Kedric Payne, Campaign Legal Center.
Under Trump, ethics doesnโt just end up in the toilet โ it lives there. ProPublica maps appointeesโ financial conflicts, from Golden Dome contracting to crypto oversight. ๐ฝ๐ฐ #Ethics #ConflictsOfInterest