White House eyes backward steps on anti-bribery laws
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Source: The Maddow Blog
It's amazing on its face that Trump and his team are eager to make foreign bribes easier, but it's the larger political context that makes the story all the more extraordinary.
Republicans seem eager to tell the public that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine, not as part of an extortion scheme, but because of the president's deep and abiding concerns about foreign corruption. The increasingly absurd talking point has been discredited by evidence, but there was Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, once again asking people to believe Trump was committed to "rooting out corruption."
Except we know this wasn't the case in Ukraine, and it now doesn't appear to be true more broadly, either. As New York's Jon Chait explained, "Trump actually approves of corruption.... [T]he truth is that Trump has focused on corruption. He wishes there was more of it. It's astonishing that, even as Trump's impeachment defense hinges upon his supposed hatred for foreign corruption, his administration isn't even hiding its desire to weaken the country's most powerful law against overseas corruption."
Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-eyes-backward-steps-anti-bribery-laws
Trump’s position on corruption? He’s for it.
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That is it's position on everything!
