CORRUPT! Why I blew the whistle on the Rick Perry meeting - okay, FUCKING CORRUPT!!

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19. Although we had a Republican Congress during portions of the Obama administration,

we did not have this kind of corruption.

The fact is that. while some Democrats, that is, occasionally a Democrat, is corrupt, the very reason for being of the Republican Party is corruption.

That's what being a Republican is about -- corruption. Their goal is to legitimize corruption. They do not value transparency in government. And only transparency prevents corruption.

The president did not want to make his visitors' logs public.

Who has the president’s ear? Who’s hitting the links with the commander in chief? And who’s on the outside looking in? The official White House visitor logs keep a record of who sees the president and his staff — but they don’t tell the whole story.

POLITICO’s Unauthorized White House Visitor Logs stand in for the official record, which the administration has decided not to release publicly.

To build a better, completely public visitor log, we compiled not just visits to the White House, but interactions that include in-person meetings with the president at Mar-a-Lago and other venues, appearances at events and documented phone calls with foreign leaders and other politicians.

We welcome your tips as we continue to grow the log. Send any names we may have missed to us at [e-mail].

https://www.politico.com/interactives/databases/trump-white-house-visitor-logs-and-records/index.html

Public Citizen had to sue to get a settlement that requires the president to make them public once in a while.

In the suit, filed in August, Public Citizen alleged that the administration was violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) because it refused to release information about visitors to four agencies housed in the White House complex.
. . . .
Under the settlement, the visitor logs will be transferred to the four agencies, which, going forward, will process and post the logs online within a month of receiving them. Visitor logs from the past year will be released over the next several months.

https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/win-trump-administration-settles-lawsuit-over-visitor-logs-information-will-be

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/15/trump-visitor-logs-white-house-413016

That is just an example of Republicans hiding their corruption.

We complained about the lack of transparency under Obama, but it is a lot worse under Trump.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/obama-transparency

We need open government. Americans cannot vote intelligently with all this secrecy. Of course, that is what Republicans want -- to be able to fool Americans into voting for them.