Washington – during the first three weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump moved with a insolent rush to dismantle the handrails of the federal government, which he often tested during his first term, but now it seems that he intends to completely remove.
Within a few hours on Monday, the news came that yes They forced the leaders offices responsible for government ethics and complaints of informants. And in the benefit of the corporation, he ordered to interrupt in order to enforce a ten -year law, which prohibits American companies to bribe foreign governments to gain business. All this appeared on the previous tardy night A dozen or so general inspectors who are designed to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse in government agencies.
This is the most corrupt beginning we’ve ever seen in the history of American presidency.
All this is done with the opinion of stop-me-me-if you do not feel like president, who for the first time felt trimmed by guards, lawyers and judges whose task is to confirm a good government and fair play. Now it seems determined to break these restrictions in historically unprecedented flexibility of the executive once and for all.
“This is the most corrupt beginning we have ever seen in the history of American presidency,” said Eisen standards, former US ambassador to the Czech Republic, who was a legal adviser to the Democrats during the first Trump imteachment.
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“This time the end goal is to avoid responsibility,” said Julian Zlizer, presidential historian of the Princeton University. “Not only protected by his party and counts on society when scandals or problems appear, but this time, removing many key characters whose task is to supervise” his administration.
Zlizer added: “This is a much bolder claim than in the first term, and if it succeeds, and if all these numbers are deleted, you will have a combination of an executive unit without independent votes that will have an eye on the ball, and then on the ball, and then on the ball, and then on the ball The ball, and then most of the congress, which at least so far will not cause him problems for him. “
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Receiving the place where he finished
To some extent, the early activities of Trump reflect the continuation of the path, which he burned in the first term when Rejected many key general inspectors – including people running the Department of Defense and the intelligence community – i released the FBI director AND Prosecutor General On the investigation of the Department of Justice regarding his bond between his presidential campaign in 2016 and Russia.
This time, however, his administration moved much faster in relation to those that they think previously hurt – or still.
His Department of Justice last month dismissed a dozen or so prosecutors involved in investigations in the collection of closed documents and his efforts to withdraw the presidential election in 2020, which caused the accusation from ABANDONIA after leaving the office. It is too He demanded a list of all agents who participated in the investigations related to January 6, 2021 in the US Capitol, and Trump said on Friday that he intends to snail-paced down some of them quickly and “surgically”.
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The actions reflect the intention of administration to maintain a strict hug in the Department of Justice, and even purify it of investigators perceived as insufficiently committed, even though the career civilian officials are usually not replaced by novel presidents. Trump’s actions are in line with the dramatic release in his first Friday evening in the office Almost 20 general inspectors in a wide cross -section government agencies, all apparent violation of the law requiring that Congress receives a 30-day outcome of such exemptions.
The last moves took place on Monday, when the recently released head of the Office of Special Counsel, which processes the complaints of informers and serves the Black Federal Act, which prohibits the federal employees of guerrilla activities at work, she sued several days earlier. Trump separately released the head of the Government Ethics Office.
He named Doug Collins, a committed ally and a former Republican Congressmen from Georgia, who was recently confirmed as Secretary of Veterans. But at the end of Monday, the federal judge in Washington ordered the released OSC head, Hampton Dellinger, was restored, while the court struggle is removing it.
On Monday, the Trump administration also moved to remove two high -profile public integrity of selected officials. Trump pardoned the former Governor Illinois Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of political allegations of corruption, which included a tendency to sell aged senate places of President Barack Obama.
A few hours later, the Trump Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors to reduce fees against the mayor of New York Eric Adams, who was accused of accepting bribes of free or discount on travel and illegal campaigns.
“I think that Trump has sent a unique message that corruption is welcome in his new administration,” said Eisen, who is currently cooperating with the Defenders Defenders Fund Fund, a non -profit organization, which claims that he is fighting “election sabotage and autocracy” , and lawsuits are paid against the Trump administration.
Trump presented matters in the same way as he called his own investigations: as politically motivated witches’ hunting.
Loosening the rules related to business
Trump, who in 2016 conducted a campaign about the commitment to get rid of Washington about corruption thanks to the chorus of “drainage of the swamp”, also sought the principles of ethics and the guard when it comes to business.
On Monday, he detained the enforcement of a foreign law on corruption practices, which prevents American companies from paying bribes for foreign state officials to win a business until the novel prosecutor general Pam Bondi did not design novel tips.
The White House said that action is needed because American companies “cannot engage in common practices among international competitors, creating uneven opportunities.”
“It sounds good on paper, but it is practically a disaster,” said Trump in the White House.
On the first day of office last month, Trump has signed an executive order This is ajar, which was issued by former president Joe Biden, who forbade employees of the executive department to accept the main gifts from lobbyists and prohibitions of people jumping from work in lobbying to work for executive or reverse power. The bans were aimed at limiting the “rotary doors” in Washington, where the government arriving to the government could bring a minefield of ethical conflicts, and then find loose workplaces.
This movement occurred when Trump returned to power with fresh overlapping to his personal and business interests, including its launch of a novel cryptocurrency token.
Meanwhile, his family company, the Trump organization, has adopted a voluntary agreement, which excludes it with contracts concluding with foreign governments, but not with private companies abroad, which is a significant change in relation to the company’s ethical pact in the first term.
In recent months, the Trump organization has concluded contracts for hotels and golf centers in Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Government ethics experts argued that the President’s personal financial interests in contracts could affect the way foreign policy could conduct.
