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Trump Has a Different Definition of <em>Corruption</em>

The president helps himself to public resources, but that doesn’t count—as long as he upholds “Republican values.”
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On Wednesday, in response to criticism that Donald Trump and other administration officials violated federal law by using government resources at the Republican National Convention, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows declared, “Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares. They expect that Donald Trump is going to promote Republican values.”

If Meadows is referring to those Americans outside the Beltway who dislike Donald Trump, he’s wrong. Anti-Trump voters may have never heard of the , but they care about Trump’s assault on the rule of law. During the Ukraine scandal that Trump should be impeached.  

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