I didn't expect to need to post an update on this series already, but here we are.

President Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the Department of Justice to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which bars U.S. citizens from bribing foreign government officials to win business.

Separately, Trump fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics on Monday. David Huitema was nominated by President Biden and confirmed last November by the Senate, before Trump fired him just weeks into his five-year tenure.

Meanwhile, Hampton Dellinger, the head of the independent federal agency that protects whistleblowers, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging his dismissal from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel by President Trump. The Project on Government Oversight called it an illegal firing that “undermines the office that investigates whistleblower disclosures of wrongdoing and enforces the law meant to keep partisan politics out of the federal workforce.”

Summarizing Trump's executive orders so far:
1. Trump fired most of the inspector generals.
2. Trump revoked Biden's rules against accepting gifts from lobbyists
3. Trump revoked Biden's rule against the "revolving door"
4. Trump replaced civil service classification with political appointees.
5. Trump revoked Biden's order that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices with Big Pharma.
6. SEC lawyers cannot investigate fraud without approval from politically appointed leadership.
7. Halted virtually all pending activities at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including investigations.
8. U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi announced the end of the effort to battle high-level corruption worldwide and return ill-gotten funds to victims of financial crimes and laws concerning international white-collar crime.

And now he's pardoning corrupt Democratic politicians that take foreign bribes like former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.

Mayor Adams was indicted in late September for allegedly doing favors for the Turkish government as payback for illegal campaign donations and travel perks. Almost instantly, he started floating Trump-friendly conspiracy theories that the prosecution was a Joe Biden revenge plot. He stood up for then-candidate Trump when his opponent dared to call him a fascist. Adams has now reportedly directed his subordinates to only say nice things in public about the president — anything, really, for the Don.

On Monday night, Trump returned the favor, when his Justice Department ordered prosecutors in Manhattan to drop their charges against the mayor, two months before he was set to go to trial. This get-out-of-jail card isn’t free, though. It practically demands that Adams implement Trump’s deportation agenda, and it leaves open the possibility that Adams could be charged again if he doesn’t go along with the program.

Legal observers tell me they’ve never seen a deal quite like it before...
“It’s now a free for all for foreign intel services,” former head of FBI counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi told NBC News.

And if Bondi has her way, criminal investigations like the one that exposed that $10 million influencer network will be a thing of the past. Last week, Bondi ordered prosecutors to dramatically scale back their investigations of violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. That’s the law, passed after World War II, when the Nazis got a bunch of Congressmen to secretly push their agenda. The idea was to stop that kind of covert propaganda.
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Some of those charges likely wouldn’t have happened under Bondi’s new rules. Or the one against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who got all those gold bars in exchange for doing favors for the Egyptian government? Or the one involving Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who allegedly took $600,000 to covertly do the business of Azerbaijan? Same. Gone.

That's the key point. It isn't that you will be hearing about this new corruption, because Trump had made sure that there will not be any anti-corruption law enforcement.