How Could Anyone Have Known...

that Trump and the Republican Party that nominated him would be incredibly corrupt? Anna Lenzer at Fast Company published a piece yesterday on Trump's dealings in Panama. The whole thing is worth a read, but this stood out to me.

When Walmart’s massive Mexican bribery scandal broke in 2012, Donald Trump said that the U.S. anti-bribery law that applies internationally, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, is a “horrible law and it should be changed.” “Every other country in the world is doing it and we’re not allowed to. It puts us at a huge disadvantage…the world is laughing at us,” he said.

So we couldn't have expected this?

In yet another sign that they're done pretending they work for the American people, House Republicans got rid of a regulation that keeps oil companies from secretly paying off officials in other countries

It's a serious understatement to say that the Trump regime is the most corrupt "administration" the White House has ever seen. https://t.co/JIXfulSsfX

— Great Consolidation (@tgconsolidation) March 11, 2017