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Trump's Midnight Dump of Ethics Waivers Should End "Drain the Swamp Illusion"

President Donald Trump in January 2017 surrounded by members of his senior staff, including White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon. (Photo: Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump Empire Claims Tracking Payments Too Hard, Watchdogs Say Too Bad

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

"If President Trump believes that identifying all the prohibited foreign emoluments he is currently receiving would be too challenging or would harm his business ventures, his options are to divest his ownership or submit a proposal to Congress to ask for our consent," said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). (Photo: AP)

Despite promising to donate whatever profits President Donald Trump makes from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury, it has been revealed that the president's real estate empire is actually not tracking those payments, which ethics watchdogs warn puts him in clear violation of the Constitution. In fact, a pamphlet (pdf) created by the Trump...

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'Extraordinary': Trump Administration Seeks to Shut Down Lobbyist Ethics Probe

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

The Trump administration is attempting to squash an ethics inquiry into former...

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Dems Ask Trump's Company to Prove It's Not Just Funneling Him Money

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Senate Democrats said President Donald Trump's company could be "effectively a...

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"More Peril Than Promise": Watchdogs Slam Trump's Plan for NAFTA Talks

"Pay Trump Bribes Here" Projected Onto President's DC Hotel

#WithFewExceptions, Everyone Has Opinion on Trump's Terrible Presidency

As White House Narrative Unravels, Protests Demand Probe of 'Cover-Up'

'Nixonian': Donald Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

"Corruption, Plain and Simple": Kushner Visa Scandal Snowballs

Watchdogs: Trump's Disastrous 100 Days Fueling "Golden Era of Activism"

Getting Old Yet? GOP Votes Again to Protect Trump and Obscure Truth

'Goldman Sachs Populism': Trump Tax Plan Benefits Ultra-Wealthy—Like Him

Not Running for Re-Election, Chaffetz Will Be Lame(r) Duck Oversight Chair

Lawsuit Against Trump Grows to Encompass More Violations—and Plaintiffs

Demonstrators at the Tax March on April 15 in New York City.

As Push for Trump's Taxes Gains Steam, Promised GOP Tax Overhaul Falters

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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Trump’s Interior Secretary Attended Oil Industry Meeting at Trump’s DC Hotel

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Crew Statement on Ethics Pledge Waivers

Common Cause

White House Blocks OGE’s Ability to Enforce Ethics Rules

Public Citizen

Will NAFTA Renegotiation Produce TPP 2.0 and Intensify Damage? Or Fulfill Trump Promise of a ‘Much Better’ Deal for Working Americans? Maintaining Secretive Process With 500 Official Corporate Advisers Does Not Bode Well

Public Citizen

Comey’s Firing Is an Assault on Democracy; Attorney General Jeff Sessions Must Go

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

CREW Releases 100 Day Trump Ethics Report, Timeline

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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

White House for Sale: Emoluments, Corruption and Donald Trump

Joshua Matz

Trump’s Foreign Emoluments: Another Fig Leaf Falls Away

Laurence Tribe

Trump Must Be Impeached. Here’s Why.

Nomi Prins

The Empire Expands: Not the American One, But Trump’s

Dale Eisman

'State of the Swamp' Spotlights Trump Team's Ethical Blindness

Norman Eisen, Richard Painter

Trump's Taxes Must be Released Before Tax Reform

Lisa Gilbert

We the People Do Care About Trump's Taxes

Peter Dreier

Tax Day Marchers Want to Know: What Is Trump Hiding?

Max Yoeli

President Trump and His Businesses: Not So Separate After All

Robert Reich

Trump’s Business of Government

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