Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, has been warning since President Donald Trump took office that this administration is the most corrupt and ethically-challenged in history, and now he’s listing all of the many crimes and conflicts of interest that have been committed by Trump and his associates.
HuffPost reports that Shaub is also warning the threat caused by Trump’s unwillingness to follow the same laws that all of us are subject to:
In a 14-tweet thread, Shaub detailed the “signs” that should be noticed from Trump’s time in the White House ― from the president’s 10,000+ lies since his inauguration to his controversial declaration of a national emergency in a bid to secure funds for his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Shaub has previously warned that the White House is currently suffering an “ethics crisis” that could make the U.S. look like “a kleptocracy.”
Here’s some highlights from the Shaub’s Twitter thread, which reads like the rap sheet for a mob boss:
Heed the signs and don’t underestimate the threat to our republic from within:
-Trump obstructed justice
-A McConnell-packed SCOTUS says precedent can be changed more easily than previously thought
-AG Barr is an open partisan and slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre beneficiary— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
-White House ignores congressional subpoenas, document requests
-Mnuchin is violating a law on turning over taxes to House
-Barr & Senate allies want to investigate officials who investigated Trump to retaliate against them and deter future efforts to hold him to the rule of law— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
-State Dept is setting up a commission to supplant human rights with “natural law”
-An Inspector General found standing room only in border detention cells, with detainees standing on toilets to breathe
-children stolen from parents at the border are dying in internment camps— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
-Trump cut resources for investigating domestic terrorists
-FBI reports a recent significant rise in white supremacist domestic terrorism
-evidence found of a white supremacist plot to add census Q to help gerrymander in ways “advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites”— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
-Trump admin & Graham inexplicably advocating war in Iran/Venezuela
-DOJ experimenting with new legal theory for prosecuting those who publish classified information (raising a question as to whether the theory will be limited to hostile foreign actors or expanded to journalists)— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
-Trump allies in congress are either lying about the Mueller report or haven’t read it
-Trump allies in congress are trying to prevent Mueller & others from testifying because they know their base hasn’t read the report and right wing media has kept them from hearing about it— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019
There is no longer any doubt that Donald Trump has indeed committed high crimes and misdemeanors. He’s a threat to the very pillars of democracy this country was founded on. He must be removed from office and his crimes must be exposed for all to see.
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