In July 2017, one day short of the six-month anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, the head of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, stepped down in subdued indignation. In an interview on MSNBC, he called the ethics program of the Trump White House “a very serious disappointment.” The administration, he said, claimed to have negotiated ethics agreements with staff, but the office was cut out of the process. “We’ve received very little information about what the individuals in the White House do on a day-to-day basis for a living,” he said. The institution Shaub had headed since 2013
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