How Trump is undermining the fight against public corruption

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  I'm Ashley Lopez.

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  I cover politics.

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  I'm Ryan Lucas.

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  I cover the Justice Department.

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  And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

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  Today on the podcast, we dig into actions by the Trump administration that experts say

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  are undermining the fight against public corruption.

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  Ryan, you've been reporting on this.

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  Can you tell us what you found?

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  Well, there are two things in particular that I looked at when looking at the question of public corruption.

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  One of them is.

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  Pardons that President Trump has issued for former elected officials and their co-conspirators.

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  And I found that there are at least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators

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  of theirs convicted of or charged with corruption that the president has pardoned this term.

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  So since January of last year, that's an average of almost one a month.

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