Secret Corruption Waivers and Other Tales from Trumps Former Ethics Director

Published: Oct. 22, 2021, 4 a.m.

Walter Shaub, former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics under the Obama and Trump administration shares \u201cthe most horrifying ethical lapse\u201d of the Trump admin that he witnessed\u2014and why he\u2019s annoyed at Biden. Plus, Esquire\u2019s politics blog editor Charles P. Pierce joins to discuss the Ronald Reagan administration\u2019s economic ignorance and how the \u201cthe conservative media octopus\u201d made people so anti-vax that they\u2019re actually unAmerican.


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