The former director of the US Office of Government Ethics said he was “embarrassed” by Donald Trump’s alleged conflicts of interest and he was concerned that the White House could be seen as a “kleptocracy”.
Walter Schaub, who worked at the Office of Government Ethics since 2001, has given a series of candid interviews after heresigned this month about what he describes as the threats to democracy, including the President's attacks on the press and judicial bodies.
Speaking to the Guardian, Mr Schaub described the President’s use of his hotels to host diplomats and government business as “free advertising”, and “risks people starting to refer to us as a kleptocracy”
Speaking to the Guardian, Mr Schaub described the President’s use of his hotels to host diplomats and government business as “free advertising”, and “risks people starting to
refer to us as a kleptocracy”.
“That’s a term people throw around fairly freely when they’re talking about Russia, fairly or unfairly, and we run the risk of getting branded the same way. America really should stand for more than that,” he told the newspaper.
During a speech to the National Press Club last week, he said: “We are truly in an ethics crisis right now, and something has got to be done about it.”
Mr Schaub, who questioned the President’s motivations, left the White House six months before his five-year term was due to finish and became an unlikely star of the resistance movement, even inspiring a fan page on Facebook.
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