Yesterday, Kellyanne Conway basically broke the law when she told the American public to go out and purchase President Donald Trump’s daughter’s products in a show of support for the billionaire’s progeny. The uproar over the clear ethics violations involved in this led to Utah’s biggest misogynist Rep. Jason Chaffetz murmuring that he might be willing to investigate a Republican (if they were a woman, of course). How big was that uproar?
The OGE was created after another ethically hollow administration helped to obliterate whatever trust was left between the American public and their government.
The OGE was created as a result of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 following the Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
It became a fully independent agency a decade later, with 80 full-time workers. Its job is to run ethics programs in the 130 different agencies that comprise the executive branch.
America is watching and the majority of Americans do not like what they are seeing.