He's not even the most corrupt figure in the state.
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They have enabled the most corrupt administration of our lifetimes.
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Americans now see them as the nation's most corrupt institutions.
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Transparency International ranks Somalia the most corrupt country on earth.
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Romania is one of the European Union&aposs most corrupt nations.
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The Trump regime is the most corrupt administration in modern history.
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According to Transparency International, Bulgaria is the EU's most corrupt country.
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Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states.
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Romania is considered one of the EU's most corrupt member states.
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" "Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.
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Trump is one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.
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Transparency International ranks Romania one of the EU's most corrupt states.
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Rights groups have labelled his administration one the world's most corrupt.
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It was one of the most corrupt administration that we ever saw.
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"We are the most corrupt metropolitan region in America," says Mr Simpson.
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Romania has been among the most corrupt places in the European Union.
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The U.S.-supported Afghan government is ranked among the world's most corrupt.
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Transparency International named him one of the world's 193 most corrupt officials.
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Angola is often listed as one of the world's most corrupt nations.
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The countries ranked with the most corrupt systems are Greece, Slovakia and Italy.
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He is indeed the most corrupt and unpatriotic President we have ever had.
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Like Al Capone, most corrupt officials are also guilty of a tax crime.
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Transparency International ranks Angola as the 164th most corrupt country out of 176.
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Transparency International lists Iraq's as the eighth-most-corrupt government in the world.
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The Clinton Foundation, he declared, was "the most corrupt enterprise in political history".
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We all know the Trump administration is the most corrupt in living memory.
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Investors see Iraq as the 10th most corrupt country, according to Transparency International.
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"August 28: "Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.
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Here's a guy who called my administration perhaps the most corrupt in history.
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Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
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Rights groups have labeled his administration as one of the world's most corrupt.
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But it's known as being the third most corrupt country in the world.
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"Unesco is among the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies," she tweeted.
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Rudy Giuliani now saying it is the most corrupt investigation he&aposs ever seen.
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Rights groups have labeled Obiang Nguema's government as one of the world's most corrupt.
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Transparency International puts Iraq in the top tier of the world's most corrupt countries.
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Polls routinely find that the national parliament is considered the country's most corrupt institution.
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This is one of the corrupt -- most corrupt scandals that you&aposve ever seen.
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" He continued: "Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.
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The country will be free of the most corrupt and incompetent party on earth.
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Transparency International ranks Slovakia as the seventh most corrupt member of the European Union.
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Nigeria is routinely rated as one of the most corrupt nations on the globe.
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At the time, Chad ranked as the seventh most-corrupt country in the world.
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Mexico — By far the OECD's most corrupt country is Mexico, scoring just 35 points.
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Bulgaria ranks as the EU's most corrupt member state in Transparency International's corruption perception index.
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Indonesians widely perceive parliament as one of their country's most corrupt institutions, Transparency International says.
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The claim has been fact-checked: New York is the most corrupt state in America.
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"But they're the most corrupt enterprise in political history, that's your statement," Ms. Maddow responded.
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"Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency," he said.
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In my judgment, Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country.
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Rather, the most corrupt president ever was determined to export his own corruption to Ukraine.
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" >> Bernie Sanders: Trump is "likely the most corrupt President in the modern history of America.
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He was the least corrupt candidate in the country's most corrupt election, one analyst said.
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Transparency International ranks Iraq as the 10th most corrupt country in the eyes of investors.
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But in any situation, the most corrupt behavior will be what's taking place in secret.
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Guinea is ranked by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.
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And rampant corruption has placed Mexico among Latin America's most corrupt countries, according to Transparency International.
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But it is also the European Union's poorest member state and one of its most corrupt.
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It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.
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Bulgaria ranks as the most corrupt EU member state on the Transparency International Index for 2016.
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Earlier this year, Cambodia switched places with Myanmar, becoming the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia.
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We are not used to seeing ourselves grouped with the most corrupt governments in the world.
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But only the most corrupt use it to fuel bigotry and divide people from one another.
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"Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth," the president tweeted Wednesday morning.
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" Sanders accused Trump of "running the most corrupt administration in the modern history of this country.
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" Mr. Limbaugh told listeners, "Joe Biden may be the most corrupt politician in Washington bar none.
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The Republican said Clinton is the most corrupt and dishonest person ever to run for president.
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How did the most corrupt presidential candidate in American history eke out an Electoral College victory?
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Democrats have only one chance to impeach the most corrupt and disloyal president in American history.
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Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog, has compiled a list of the world's most corrupt countries.
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Transparency International has ranked Somalia for more than a decade as the world's most corrupt country.
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This helps to give a pretty good idea of where in the world is most corrupt.
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Turkey — Turkey ranks as the most corrupt country within Europe, scoring 42 points out of 100.
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Regions and municipalities are the most corrupt layers of government, and senators would enjoy immunity from prosecution.
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In fact, some ethics experts suspect Opa-Locka is one the most corrupt cities in Florida history.
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He quickly turned that on to Trump again and called out him as the most corrupt president.
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But the reality is, just look at the most corrupt news man ever who made crap up.
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According to anti-graft group Transparency International, Bulgaria is the most corrupt state in the European Union.
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Transparency International ranks Romania, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, among the bloc's most corrupt states.
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For decades, the most corrupt African leaders have tried to resist urbanisation lest it threaten their rule.
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Bulgaria is, according to Transparency International, the most corrupt country in what it describes as Western Europe.
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Bulgaria is ranked as the most corrupt European Union member state by anti-graft group Transparency International.
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Transparency International now ranks Somalia as the world's most corrupt country: worse than Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela.
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Tellingly, the ten most corrupt economies in the 2016 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking are indeed democratic countries.
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That sentence encapsulates how Trump, the most corrupt president in American history, sells himself as corruption's opponent.
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Surveys show that Indonesians have for years perceived parliament to be among the country's most corrupt institutions.
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"Donald Trump is probably the most corrupt president in the modern history of this country," Sanders said.
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" Clinton, he said, "may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.
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Iraq is viewed by investors as the 10th most corrupt country in the world, according to Transparency International.
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His high school classmates in Wellsville, New York, voted him "most corrupt," according to the 1991 school yearbook.
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Romania is one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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"Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world," the president said, according to one source.
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But in supporting two of the most corrupt governments in the world, let's remember the costs of Vietnam.
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Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International rated it third most corrupt EU country after Bulgaria in Italy in 2015.
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Manafort is one of the most corrupt figures in Washington, and he richly deserves a long prison sentence.
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Here was the most corrupt, most crony capitalist administration in history, and what were Republicans in Congress doing?
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As a representative of Delaware, one of America's most corrupt states, Biden is notoriously cosy with financial interests.
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He is running the most corrupt government in the history of the United States of America, number one.
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Trump has repeatedly targeted the territory, calling it one of the "most corrupt places on earth" in August.
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Texas may not have the most corrupt state government, Wright says, but it clearly has the most dysfunctional.
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It would seem that the worst and most corrupt president in American history would be easy to remove.
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That think tanks will hire the most corrupt and entrenched apparatchiks to write reports about corruption and nepotism.
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According to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Azerbaijan is among the most corrupt nations in the world.
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Slovakia — Also scoring 51 out of 100, Slovakia is up there with the most corrupt countries in Europe.
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This is the most corrupt investigation I&aposve ever seen that the Justice Department is allowing to go forward.
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According to Transparency International, Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, and its election was no exception.
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For a while, the Kungs reigned as one of the richest and allegedly most corrupt families in the country.
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The president told leaders that "Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world," the source said.
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He also made a rambling attack on the UK's tax authorities, calling them "the most corrupt business in Britain".
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"If there were a competition of the most corrupt government then the Yeddyurappa government is number one," he said.
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From where I stand, the Democratic nominee is one of the most corrupt individuals who has ever been nominated.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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"The whole country will come to know that this is the most corrupt party in the world," he said.
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Transparency International ranks Romania, which currently holds the EU's rotating six-month presidency, among the bloc's most corrupt states.
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"The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age," Brock said.
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Romania is one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states, though Brussels has praised magistrates for their efforts.
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He understands Albany's sick culture, having helped to convict many of the state's most corrupt legislators before entering politics.
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Romania ranks as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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Nearly every candidate attacked Trump head on, with Sanders calling him the most corrupt president in modern history, Sen.
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His family has grown exceedingly rich in a country ranked the most corrupt in Southeast Asia by Transparency International.
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The three rank among the most corrupt countries in the European Union, according to Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
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"The witnesses they call are probably some of the most corrupt people on earth," said Bruce Udolf, attorney for Burga.
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So Trump-- the shadiest, most corrupt guy to take the Oval Office, will have no strong federal checks and balances.
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In 2011, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Waters one of the most corrupt politicians.
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And tonight, as a party, we are one step closer to defeating the most corrupt president in American history. pic.twitter.
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Romania is seen as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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I blame the most corrupt governments whose main concern has only been making corrupt money and protecting the corrupt money.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps Romania's justice system under special monitoring.
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"This is the most corrupt president in my lifetime, so I'm glad the Judiciary Committee is moving in that direction."
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"Mitch McConnell and his permanent political class is the most corrupt, incompetent group of individuals in this country!" he said.
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America, unfortunately, has become the most corrupt country in the world, because bribery at least in other countries is illegal.
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In a survey by global watchdog Transparency International this year, Indonesians perceived parliament as the most corrupt institution in the country.
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" In Michigan, Trump called Clinton "the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency of the United States.
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Romania is seen as one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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In response, Trump christened her "Crazy Maxine Waters, said by some to be one of the most corrupt people in politics."
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A survey earlier this year by Transparency International, a pressure group, found that it is seen as Indonesia's most corrupt institution.
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"It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history," Trump said back in August.
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" Rallying around him instead, the piece continued, were "the most corrupt, the most designing and the most dangerous of the community.
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"Mitch McConnell and this permanent political class is the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country," Bannon declared.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels is keeping its justice system under special monitoring.
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Transparency International issues an annual report measuring perceptions of graft rather than actual levels given the secrecy surrounding most corrupt dealings.
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"This is the most corrupt investigation I have ever seen, that the Justice Department is allowing to go forward," Giuliani said.
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" But the "most corrupt candidate ever!" part was text suspended inside of a Star of David—the international symbol for "Jew.
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Sixteen years into the American intervention, Afghanistan's government is ranked among the world's most corrupt: ninth on the Fragile States Index.
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Donald Trump is the most corrupt, immoral and dishonest president we have had perhaps in the history of the United States.
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"Mitch McConnell and this permanent political class is the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country," Bannon shouted.
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It has helped bolster a crackdown on high-level graft in Romania, seen as one of the EU's most corrupt states.
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Iraq is ranked the 12th most corrupt country in the world by Transparency International, and has an unemployment rate of 25%.
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Elizabeth Warren called President Donald Trump's administration the "most corrupt administration ever" in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday.
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In Africa, the presidents who serve longest are often the most corrupt, multiplying the harm they inflict with each passing year.
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He's the most corrupt president in American history, and Bernie Sanders is going to sweep him out of the White House.
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Transparency International, a non-governmental organization, ranked Ukraine in the top third of the most corrupt countries in a global index.
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Iraq is ranked 169th out of 180 states in Transparency International's corruption perception index, with the lowest being the most corrupt.
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The World Bank governance indicators show that Afghanistan still has one of the worst and most corrupt governments on the globe.
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According to Transparency International in 2018, Guinea-Bissau had one of the most corrupt public sectors of any nation on earth.
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Poland — Scoring 62 points in the Index, Poland just misses out on being one of the 10 most corrupt OECD nations.
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He even established "Fake News Awards" in January to determine "the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media," as he put it.
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Afghanistan is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranked 166th out of 168 nations by watchdog group Transparency International.
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Yet its officials have embezzled billions, making Venezuela the most corrupt country in Latin America, as well as the most ineptly governed.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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The officer who busted Meek Mill might be one of Philadelphia's most corrupt cops ... this according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
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It has backed an unprecedented crackdown on high-level graft in Romania, which Transparency International ranks among the bloc's most corrupt states.
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Infrastructure in Romania, one of the European Union's most corrupt states, is among the bloc's least developed, particularly in the healthcare sector.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, named her among the most corrupt members of Congress at the time.
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It's gone down and it's going down as — hey, Phil, this is the most corrupt administration in the history of the city.
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For years, the province had been one of the most corrupt in the nation, and the site of many politically motivated killings.
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Bulgaria has been ranked among the most corrupt nations in the European Union and among the worst in terms of press freedom.
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HNA was first a small local airline, set up in the 1990s in Hainan, one of the most corrupt provinces in China.
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Laos is also one of Asia's most corrupt countries, according to Transparency International, and the bidding for hydropower projects is notoriously opaque.
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Moreover, the current Iranian government enacted economic and social reforms that sapped the most corrupt, anti-American hardliners of power and influence.
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As one Somalia analyst put it: The least corrupt and most-well-liked candidate won Somalia's most corrupt and least democratic election.
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As a result, Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and also one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional.
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Riddled with a history of abuse and impunity, CBP is recognized as the most corrupt federal law enforcement agency in the nation.
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It was another humiliating blow for the police, who have long been seen as one of the most corrupt institutions of government.
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Israel — The OECD's poorest nation is also one of its most corrupt, scoring 61 out of 100 in the Corruption Perceptions Index.
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The Republican nominee has slammed Clinton as possibly "the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency" based in part on those donations.
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Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Chad as Africa's sixth most corrupt country, jointly with Central African Republic, Burundi and Congo Republic.
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But deep-rooted corruption remains an obstacle to attracting investment: the oil-rich nation is the 10th most corrupt worldwide, according Transparency International.
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And despite countless efforts to improve the performance of the Afghan government, the country remains one of the most corrupt in the world.
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In Transparency International's 2015 Corruption Perception Index, Kenya was listed as one of the world's most corrupt countries, ranking 139 out of 168.
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This president — and I agree with Bernie, Senator Sanders — is the most corrupt in modern history and I think all of our history.
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Now, we are told via Twitter that today the president intends to announce his choice for the "most corrupt and dishonest" media awards.
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But a department headed by perhaps the most corrupt commerce secretary in history will, of course, conclude whatever Trump wants it to conclude.
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Albania, perceived as one of Europe's most corrupt countries that has failed to combat money laundering, faces stronger resistance from northern European states.
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The third most corrupt country is North Korea, followed by Syria, a war-torn country which is presently seeing a massive outflow of refugees.
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Kovesi is respected by ordinary Romanians and supported by the European Union and the U.S. in one of the bloc&aposs most corrupt members.
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Kenya is considered among the world&aposs most corrupt countries, ranked 143th out of 180 nations by Transparency International in its annual corruption index.
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According to the 2017 Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index , both North Korea and Sudan ranked among the 10 most corrupt countries in the world.
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Critics have called Kenyatta&aposs regime the most corrupt of the four leaders that Kenya has had since gaining independence from Britain in 1963.
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The concept was created by NGO Accountability Lab, which first tested the formula in 2014 in Nepal, ranked among the world's most corrupt nations.
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Nigeria is expected to play a catalyst role in the single currency project, but it's also one of the most corrupt countries in Africa.
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"It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history," the Republican presidential nominee said in a statement.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the European Union's most corrupt countries and the European Commission keeps its justice system under special monitoring.
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The leak has deeply unsettled many in the Balkan country of 7 million, one of the poorest and most corrupt European Union member states.
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Trump calls the Clinton Foundation the "most corrupt enterprise in political history," but this is a man who donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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Outgoing President José Eduardo dos Santos, who led one of the world's most corrupt nations for nearly four decades, is likely to remain influential.
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"In my judgment, Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country," he said early in the debate when discussing impeachment.
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Sanders mirrored her position, taking it a step further and saying that Donald Trump is the most corrupt president the country has ever had.
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Anti-corruption group Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels is keeping its justice system under special monitoring.
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If you can't land devastating counter-strikes against the most corrupt president we have ever had, then you probably shouldn't be in this race.
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This phenomenon does not bode well for Haiti, which is already one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International.
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JOHN HARWOOD: She-- actually, she didn't on this occasion, but previously she said that was an example of the most corrupt administration in history.
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It says "History Made" and features a star that looks like the Star of David with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" inside it.
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Despite pledges by consecutive governments to uproot widespread graft, Bulgaria ranks as the most corrupt EU member state, according to anti-corruption group Transparency International.
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The national statistics office says the State of Mexico is the country's most corrupt, as measured by the number of corrupt acts per 100,000 people.
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It is also riddled with graft, trailing Venezuela as the second-most-corrupt country in South America, according to Transparency International's 20163 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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And let me say, quoting Allen at Guinness Burg college, a student of this, he believes this is the most corrupt presidency in American history.
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He, too, faces multiple criminal charges related to his mother's second term, which saw Bangladesh ranked as the world's most corrupt country five years running.
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Novanto was sentenced to 15 years in prison, underscoring why Indonesia's national parliament rates as among the most corrupt institutions in the country in surveys.
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In May Roberto Saviano, the author of a bestselling work on the Mafia of Naples, provocatively described Britain as "the most corrupt place on Earth".
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It is painted on the blast walls of a building belonging to the Finance Ministry, long considered one of the most corrupt institutions in Afghanistan.
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After all, Mr. Mabuza's rural province, Mpumalanga, is fairly small, has little economic clout and is widely regarded as one of the country's most corrupt.
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Bulgaria is EU's poorest and most corrupt member state, but has been taking steps to boost people's incomes, fight endemic graft and streamline banking supervision.
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In a country regarded as one of the world's most corrupt — ranked 164th of 176 by Transparency International — details of Angola's politicized reconstruction are incomplete.
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In his view, the Department of Veterans Affairs, despite well-documented improvements in recent years, is not just incompetent but the "most corrupt" federal agency.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the EU's most corrupt states, though Brussels has also praised the efforts of anti-graft magistrates to bring offenders to justice.
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HAYES: Pruitt&aposs extraordinary list of ethical scandals prompted a debate among historians whether he&aposs the most corrupt cabinet member in the nation&aposs history.
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"Madagascar is one of the most corrupt countries in the world," said Ndranto Razakamanarina, president of Alliance Voahary Gasy, an alliance of almost 30 environmental groups.
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The powerful position is key to combating graft in Bulgaria, ranked as the most corrupt member state in the European Union by the watchdog Transparency International.
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Romania is seen as one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels has kept its justice system under special monitoring since its 2007 entry.
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The parliament is widely criticised as being inefficient and one of the country's most corrupt institutions and many believe Komarudin will struggle to improve that image.
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Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International has long ranked the land ministry as one of Kenya's most corrupt institutions, where people have to pay bribes for services.
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Parliament is considering draft legislation that would overhaul an institution the public views as one of Indonesia's most corrupt, according to global corruption watchdog Transparency International.
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There are few taxes, and in one of the world's most corrupt countries, few questions about where the money for all these new restaurants comes from.
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Indonesia, an archipelago of some 250 million people rich in resources, is routinely ranked by watchdog Transparency International as one of the world's most corrupt countries.
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Prosecutors in Romania - one of Europe's most corrupt states - have been cracking down on high-level graft including ministers, lawmakers and mayors, gaining praise from Brussels.
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The original image, posted over the July Fourth weekend, featured Clinton over $100 bills, with the words "Most corrupt candidate ever!" in a six-pointed star.
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Compiling the list made us understand why some historians believe Trump's administration is the most corrupt since at least Warren Harding's, of 2151s Teapot Dome fame.
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To realize the project, it enlisted the help of one of the most corrupt and politically entrenched families in Monterrey: the family Medina de la Cruz.
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But he had knowledge that his son was sitting on the most corrupt board in the Ukraine while he was trying to clean up the Ukraine.
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He's spent months accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of corruption, despite the fact that Trump himself is arguably the most corrupt president in American history.
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On Money As the rogues' gallery of fallen world leaders grows, you might be tempted to conclude that ours is the most corrupt era in history.
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Romania is perceived as one of the European Union's most corrupt member states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring together with neighboring Bulgaria.
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Sceptics say the EU's poorest state and most corrupt country — according to Transparency International — will need more reforms before it can adopt the bloc's single currency.
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Every year, Transparency International, the global anticorruption coalition, releases its Corruption Perceptions Index, a survey into the countries people perceive as the most corrupt on earth.
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The countries seen as most corrupt tend to be in Africa and the Middle East, in societies with weak legal and governmental systems and widespread poverty.
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Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has long ranked Kenya's lands ministry as one of its most corrupt institutions where citizens have to pay bribes to get served.
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The EU is concerned that Bucharest's judicial overhaul will reverse any progress Romania has achieved in fighting high-level graft in one of Europe's most corrupt countries.
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His father represented this area from 1981 to 2009, during which time the good-government group CREW called him one of the most corrupt members of Congress.
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Trump on Saturday tweeted and then deleted a graphic that branded Hillary Clinton the "most corrupt candidate" alongside a six-pointed star evoking the Star of David.
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Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) said the police, local councils, the vehicle inspection department that issues driving licences and the education department were among the most corrupt institutions.
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The government remains one of the most corrupt in the world, presides over several simmering insurgencies, and in recent years has been rocked by huge democratic protests.
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Romania is seen as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels, which keeps its justice system under special monitoring, has praised magistrates for tackling corruption.
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That lack of legislation, many here believe, has contributed to a culture of impunity, and made Spain's system of government one of the most corrupt in Europe.
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The chief prosecutor's role is key to combating graft in Bulgaria, ranked as the most corrupt member state in the European Union by the watchdog Transparency International.
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"Politicians lie, but this is different," says a historian who studies presidential history and estimates the Trump administration easily ranks among the most corrupt in American history.
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On Saturday, Trump's campaign shared a meme charging Hillary Clinton as the "most corrupt candidate ever," featuring a Star of David on a background of dollar bills.
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Iraq has been ranked among the world's most corrupt countries, with high unemployment, poverty, weak public institutions and crumbling infrastructure despite high oil revenues for many years.
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Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) said the police, local councils, the vehicle inspection department that issues driving licenses and the education department were among the most corrupt institutions.
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Thousands of those migrants were families and unaccompanied children fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, among the most corrupt and dangerous countries in the world.
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Instead, he sent his personal lawyer to discredit a top anti-corruption journalist and elevate some of the most corrupt voices in Ukraine for domestic political gain.
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The original tweet, which read, "Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever," featured a pile of cash and what was widely regarded as the Star of David.
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The latest fight unfolded over Mr Danyliuk's attempt to get a grip over the country's fiscal and customs services, two of the most corrupt institutions in the country.
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The West has been seeking to modernize one of the world's most corrupt countries since the 2013-14 pro-European uprising which ousted Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovich.
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And then you see the media, Democrats sticking up to the most corrupt people, their swamp friends that abused the power that we gave them, we the people?
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"Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency of the United States," he said while campaigning in Michigan on Nov. 6.
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Attempts by the ruling Social Democrats to change anti-corruption legislation have taken place on and off throughout 2017 in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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"This is the most corrupt administration in modern history," Scarborough said on his show "Morning Joe," and cited examples of ways he believes Trump has monetized his administration.
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On July 2, 103, Trump tweeted a photo collage of Hillary Clinton, piles of cash, and the phrase "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" written inside a six-pointed star.
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" Tester later sought for Shulkin to answer for Trump's comments during the campaign about the VA being a "disaster" and "the most corrupt agency in the United States.
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Pennsylvania notoriously notched a spot in the top five of most corrupt states in the union in a 2014 study published by the American Society for Public Administration.
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Electricity costs are politically sensitive in the Balkan country of 7.1 million people, which also ranks as the most corrupt European Union member state, according to Transparency International.
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Tariff policy, which used to be one of the dirtiest, most corrupt aspects of politics both in the U.S. and elsewhere, has become remarkably (though not perfectly) clean.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania, long considered one of the most corrupt states in the European Union, has made energetic efforts to root out graft that has entangled prominent lawmakers.
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Sanders has repeatedly called Trump "the most corrupt president in our modern history" — in fact, the sentiment has become something of a catchphrase for him in every debate.
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They are being given a stark choice: do what is right for the nation or do what is politically expedient for the most corrupt president in American history.
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In 21965, the antigraft organization Transparency International described Suharto as the most corrupt leader on earth, claiming that he embezzled as much as $266 billion while in power.
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Global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International describes Angola as one of the most corrupt states on earth, ranked 164th out of 176 countries on its index of perceived corruption.
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The European Union and other Western governments are pouring money into Ukraine to reform the police, customs and the energy sector in one of the world's most corrupt countries.
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The chase has enraged and captivated India at a time when the public increasingly believes the country's debt-laden government banks are enriching its flashiest, most corrupt business tycoons.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels has kept its justice system under special monitoring since it joined the bloc in 2007.
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Having his son on the board of a company with some of Ukraine's most corrupt figures makes the former Vice President vulnerable to accusations of nepotism and selective judgment.
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Romania is perceived as one of the European Union's most corrupt states where graft has deterred foreign investment and tax evasion and bribery are a drain on public finances.
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As funding dried up, it became one of the most corrupt and miserable asylums in the country, with hundreds of inmates dying as a result of neglect and abuse.
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The "Congresswomen," he wrote, "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world..." should leave.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels has kept its judicial system under special monitoring since it joined the bloc in 2007.
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"It is one of the most corrupt countries in the world… We probably contributed to it by pouring too much in, too fast with too little oversight," he said.
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More than 2 million Iraqis remain displaced, and Iraq is ranked as one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, mired in poverty despite its massive oil reserves.
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"Given that they will have to speak for the most corrupt, lawless and chaotic administration of our lifetime, you can hardly blame them for hiding under their sofas," Rep.
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Romania is regularly ranked one of the European Union's most corrupt states, and Brussels has kept its justice system under special monitoring since it joined the bloc in 2007.
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Critics accuse him of mismanaging Angola's oil wealth and making an elite, mainly his family and political allies, vastly rich in a country ranked amongst the world's most corrupt.
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And a few days earlier, Trump tweeted that Gillum is a "thief" who oversees possibly "one of the most corrupt cities" in the United States, with no evidence cited.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels has kept its justice system under special monitoring since it joined the bloc in 2007.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — In a corner office at one of the most corrupt institutions of the Afghan government, the country's new attorney general has been tasked with actually delivering justice.
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All that said, the fact remains that whatever one makes of Felt's motivations in detail, his actions helped bring down the most corrupt and dangerous president in American history.
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Crazy Maxine Waters, said by some to be one of the most corrupt people in politics, is rapidly becoming, together with Nancy Pelosi, the FACE of the Democrat Party.
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Transparency International ranks North Korea as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and there are few signs that Kim is moving to substantively loosen Pyongyang's control.
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In July 0003, Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton alongside a six-pointed star emblazoned with the words "most corrupt candidate ever," atop a pile of money.
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This law wouldn't pass muster by contemporary standards (it allowed only one in five adult males to vote), but it tackled the most corrupt practices of the old oligarchy.
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Despite an early career among some of the PRI's most corrupt figures, Mr. Peña Nieto won the presidency in 2012 promising to lead a new generation of his party.
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And this weak part — this is the system of lobbyists, lawyers, PR firms who are very eager to take dirty money from the most corrupt people in the world.
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Bulgaria meets the nominal criteria to adopt the single currency, with healthy public finances and low debt, but it is also one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries.
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The police in Ukraine have long been one of the country's most corrupt institutions—and, as the public face of the predatory state, one of the most widely loathed.
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The Ugandan government's inspector general said in a 2014 report that the police force was "the most corrupt public institution in the country" and noted crimes were rarely investigated.
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Among other sad superlatives, Liberia is by one measure the world's most corrupt country: 27% of businesses told surveyors for the World Bank that they had been asked for bribes.
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Maxine Waters as "one of the most corrupt people in politics" while arguing the outspoken liberal is becoming "the face" of the Democratic Party as the midterm elections heat up.
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Donald Trump assured anyone who would listen that Mrs Clinton's careless e-mail arrangements amounted to evidence that she was "maybe the most corrupt person" ever to stand for president.
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"It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history," Trump said in a statement, reiterating a claim he made earlier in the week.
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During a pre-summit event in London, Buhari was asked to respond to Cameron's comment that Nigeria and Afghanistan were "possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world".
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Obama&aposs administration, as far as the FBI and DOJ are concerned, will go down as the single most corrupt FBI and DOJ in the history of the United States.
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The election has been called a "show" of democracy, a veiled attempt to pull Uzbekistan from its place as one of the most corrupt and autocratic states in Central Asia.
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Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index rated the country 58th most corrupt as of the latest survey, for 2015, and number three among the 28 EU nations, tied with Greece.
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Trump called the department the "most corrupt" and "most incompetently run agency in the United States" during the campaign when he released a 10-point reform plan for the department.
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Bulgaria was ranked the European Union's most corrupt country in Transparency International's 2017 index and Brussels criticises it for failing to combat organized crime and convict corrupt high-level officials.
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The president described the women as people "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world".
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels, which keeps its justice system under special monitoring, has praised magistrates for their efforts to curb graft.
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Steyer will have a chance at his first debate to expound on why he thinks Trump is the most corrupt president in U.S. history, and a failed businessman to boot.
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Large chunks of Portugal's banking, media and energy industries are being bought by the wealthiest citizens of the oil-rich African nation, which is also one of the most corrupt.
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With the most corrupt, anti-American elements in Iran firmly shielded from the worst effects of U.S. sanctions, everyday Iranian citizens are suffering the brunt of Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign.
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Now, watching Michael Cohen testify before Congress, I sense a similar historic temblor, only this time it may be the No. 1-most-corrupt administration that is beginning to teeter.
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The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday.
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"Crazy Maxine Waters, said by some to be one of the most corrupt people in politics, is rapidly becoming, together with Nancy Pelosi, the FACE of the Democrat Party," Trump tweeted.
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" Trump himself weighed in shortly after, tweeting that Gillum "presides over one of the worst run, and most corrupt, cities in Florida," and would turn the state into "the next Venezuela!
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A respected ambassador said he was so concerned about those dealings with one of the most corrupt Ukrainian figures that he raised the matter with the staff of the vice president.
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"Hosting the G7 at Trump's failing Doral resort is one of the most egregious examples of corruption and self-dealing in the most corrupt presidency in our history," said Democratic Sen.
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The Clinton Foundation could hypothetically be the most corrupt organization on the face of the planet, and it wouldn't have much bearing on America's role in selling arms to our allies.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt countries and Brussels, which keeps the Romanian justice system under special monitoring, has praised magistrates for their efforts to curb graft.
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" Exhibit B: "Around him, as the candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people, the most corrupt, the most designing and the most dangerous of the community rally.
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With that in mind, the countries perceived as the most corrupt and the worst performers on the index in 2015 were North Korea and Somalia, each scoring 8 on the index.
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In 2011, Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index gave India a score of 3.1 out of 10 (zero being the most corrupt), placing the world's largest democracy alongside Albania, Tonga, and Swaziland.
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Trump shared a tweet on Saturday that included an image of Clinton over a bed of $100 bills and the phrase "the most corrupt candidate ever!" inside a six-pointed star.
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Romania is perceived as one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels, which keeps its justice system under special monitoring, has praised magistrates for their efforts to curb graft.
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The former communist country joined the bloc in 2007 but remains one of the poorest and most corrupt EU members and has made scant progress in tackling corruption and organized crime.
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Romania has made strong efforts to rein in graft since it joined the European Union in 2007, but it is still considered one of the most corrupt states in the bloc.
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On Twitter, Mr. Trump has accused of Mr. Gillum of running one of the most "corrupt" cities in the United States, a point Mr. DeSantis himself tried to hammer home onstage.
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Though she was cleared of wrongdoing, the inquiry won her the label "one of the most corrupt members of Congress" from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal group.
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In addition to openly supporting Iranian demonstrators, the moderate government in Tehran has enacted Gorbachevian economic and social reforms that sapped Iran's most corrupt, anti-American voices of power and influence.
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"Mexico's prisons are probably some of the most corrupt in the world," Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider earlier this year.
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But it creates a ranking based on several other corruption studies, and gives 168 countries a ranking out of 100, where 100 is the least corrupt and 0 is most corrupt.
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The top 10 ranked nations perceived to be the least corrupt are: And the most corrupt countries as ranked on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 are: -- Follow CNBC International on and Facebook.
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Cameron was first, when his candid remarks to the Queen about Nigeria and Afghanistan -- calling them "fantastically corrupt" and "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world" -- were captured on camera.
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The hiring of Liddy was the culmination of a series of dirty tricks, espionage and governmental abuses of power that made the Nixon White House the most corrupt in modern US history.
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His rant turned exclusively on the "obvious" fact that Hillary is the most corrupt politician in history and will exit the presidency a billionaire while bringing the American Republic to an end.
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Long considered one of the most corrupt countries in the European Union, Romania in recent years has convicted thousands of people as part of an effort to strengthen its law enforcement system.
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Since the nineteen-nineties, when oil and gas were discovered in Equatorial Guinea, it has been one of the world's most corrupt and undemocratic nations, where dissidents are routinely jailed and tortured.
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The motion was brought by centrist opposition groupings which said that, despite Dragnea's imprisonment, the PSD remained a big threat to the rule of law in one of EU's most corrupt states.
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Global Magnitsky sanctions would not only name and shame Lebanon's most corrupt actors, it would block all property and interests they hold in the United States, which are likely to be substantial.
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" On the campaign trial, Biden has repeatedly lambasted Trump for asking foreign governments to investigate Biden and his son, saying the President is leading the "most corrupt administration in modern American history.
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" Asked last week why she had begun calling out Buttigieg by name, Warren said it was time for Democrats to draw a clear contrast with "the most corrupt President in living memory.
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On the campaign trail and as president Mr Trump attacked the ACA as the most horrible bill ever passed in the same way that he called Hillary Clinton the most corrupt politician ever.
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Standing in contrast, many of the most corrupt countries are administered by socialists and economic populists, themselves frequently the loudest critics of corruption and privilege and the connection of those problems to inequality.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Senate approved changes to the criminal code on Wednesday that could shut down a number of ongoing high-level graft cases in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is widely expected to win a first round of presidential elections on Sunday, with pledges to rekindle anti-graft efforts in one of Europe's most corrupt nations.
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As a sign of the success of this message, left-leaning European press echo Russia's message, calling Ukraine the most corrupt nation in Europe — when, in fact, Russia qualifies for this dubious achievement.
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"Crazy Maxine Waters, said by some to be one of the most corrupt people in politics, is rapidly becoming, together with Nancy Pelosi, the FACE of the Democrat Party," Trump tweeted in July.
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She has set a few best practices for dealing with officials and shady characters in Afghanistan, one of the world's most corrupt countries — 166th out of 168 in Transparency International's latest global list.
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Mr. Mabuza was the subject of an investigative article in The New York Times in August that described his rise in Mpumalanga, for decades one of the most corrupt provinces in South Africa.
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Nor because he took $50,000 a month from one of the most corrupt figures in Ukraine or because he got the deal when his father controlled billions in loans and aid to Ukraine.
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"Sadly we have a president who is not only a pathological liar, he is likely the most corrupt president in modern history," Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said during the debate's opening segment.
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Somalia recently selected a new Parliament and a new president in a long, drawn-out process that was widely believed to have been one of the most corrupt political events in Somalia's history.
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Kovesi had won a reputation as a tough anti-graft crusader in Romania, one of the most corrupt countries in the EU. In September 2019, she was named the EU's first fraud prosecutor.
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Bulgaria ranks as EU's most corrupt country in Transparency International's 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index and has been rapped repeatedly by Brussels for failing to combat rampant organized crime and jail high level officials.
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While Scott Pruitt may go down in history as one of the most corrupt cabinet members, the ultimate blame lies with a president who disregards ethics laws and well-established norms every day.
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Labeled by multiple international agencies and organizations as the "most corrupt country in the European Community," it is not surprising that a capstone example of sanctionable corruption under GMA would occur in Bulgaria.
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She said that replacing Mr. Trump, whose administration she called "the most corrupt in living memory," was only the first step in fighting back against a system tilted in favor of the wealthy.
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His Saturday tweet of a graphic that included Hillary Clinton's face, a six-pointed star, a pile of cash and the words "most corrupt candidate ever" drew immediate backlash for evoking anti-Semitic imagery.
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Trump was accused of anti-Semitism after a tweet was posted Saturday showing Clinton's photo emblazoned on a backdrop of $100 bills with the phrase "most corrupt candidate ever" inside a six-pointed star.
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" Hauser continued, "You have a president who's leading the most corrupt administration in American history, and you have the representatives of the federal government, which is controlled by Republicans, going after a Latino Democrat.
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The plans, initially announced by the justice minister in August and currently in under debate in parliament, could put the judicial system under political control in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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The EU's executive commission and thousands of Romanian magistrates have criticized the Romanian overhaul, saying it would leave courts and prosecutors vulnerable to political interference in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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In a tweet attacking his opponent Hillary Clinton, Trump included a photo of Hillary over a pile of money, with the phrase "most corrupt candidate ever!" in the shape of a Star of David.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the EU's most corrupt states and Brussels has kept its justice system under special monitoring since the former communist country was admitted to the bloc in 2007.
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By doing so, he hopes to make at least some voters believe that all politicians are equally corrupt rather than recognizing that Trump himself is the most corrupt president in a long, long time.
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Yes, the arguments against it — namely, that it is a largely unregulated and unethical dumping ground through which the most corrupt among the very wealthy can launder their money and reputations — are perhaps valid.
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The US has seen the rise of the most corrupt administration in its history under Trump -- and a Republican Party ruled by self-dealers, plutocrats and grifters who do not reflect the popular will.
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"The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Take Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, who once called the Obama administration the most corrupt presidency in history, until Mr. Issa nearly lost his seat and claimed he had cooperated with Mr. Obama.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested across the country on Sunday after the government passed an emergency decree that critics said chipped away at prosecutors' independence in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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Bulgaria was ranked the EU's most corrupt country in Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index and has been rapped repeatedly by Brussels for failing to combat rampant organized crime and to jail high-level officials.
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In a statement, Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest called the platform "ironic" after the Democratic Party nominated Hillary Clinton, whom he called "one of the most corrupt politicians in history," for president in 2016.
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No fancy econometric model or sophisticated polling was needed to predict that Shavkat Mirziyoyev would win this month's presidential race in Uzbekistan, a country run by one of the world's most corrupt and repressive regimes.
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Though he has called President Obama "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times," Mr. Issa is mailing out fliers with a nice photo of Mr. Obama at his desk in the Oval Office.
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Mr. Hariri, who was temporarily kidnapped by the Saudis and forced to announce his resignation in Riyadh last year, hails from one of the world's most corrupt countries, one itself at risk of financial crisis.
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"Senator George McGovern, a prominent critic of US participation in the war, believed the refugees represented some of the most corrupt and even bloodthirsty officials of the discredited South Vietnamese government," historian Robert Schulzinger writes.
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While hundreds of businessmen and women attended receptions on the sidelines of the event, many expressed misgivings about the political and security risks of doing business in Iraq, considered one of the most corrupt countries.
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Rights groups said on Tuesday that those comments encouraged a sense of impunity among the police, which Transparency International has called one of the most corrupt government agencies in a country where corruption is widespread.
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"I don't think it's wrong for us to look at the Biden connection in the Ukraine, the $3 million given to the vice president's son by the most corrupt company in the Ukraine," he added.
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There is, however, that other problem of Hunter Biden landing a windfall contract with one of Ukraine's most corrupt figures after his father took charge of potentially billions in U.S. loans and aid for Ukraine.
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If Trump were truly concerned about aid falling into corrupt hands in Ukraine, since as he says, it is one of the most corrupt places on Earth, why wasn't he concerned about it last year?
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Mr. Trump was a relentless critic of the agency on the campaign trail, calling it "the most corrupt" agency in the government, and promising to "make the V.A. great again," though he provided few specifics.
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This month Modi said Gandhi's deceased father Rajiv, himself a former prime minister, ended his life as "India's most corrupt man" who used a warship during a 1987 holiday as his family's own "personal taxi".
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Democrats are hoping to brand the first two years of the Trump presidency as the "most corrupt administration in modern times," drawing on recent polling that shows voters mobilize around the "money in politics" issue.
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Chile — Despite being one of the most corrupt countries in the OECD, Chile is one of the least corrupt in Latin America, where countries like Brazil, Venezuela, and Paraguay are riddled with bribery and fraud.
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Bulgaria, one of the European Union's poorest and most corrupt members, has been persistently criticized by the European Commission for failing to sever links between graft-prone officials and businessmen and impose strict rule of law.
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Trump, the most corrupt president of the modern era, continues his attempts to obscure his own crimes by bringing up Hillary Clinton's alleged crimes, which Trump insists she committed as Secretary of State under President Obama.
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Just as in Trump's original tweet, the graphic features a pile of $100 dollar bills and the words "most corrupt candidate ever" on top of a six-pointed star, which evokes the Jewish Star of David.
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Donald Trump tweeted—then deleted—an image Saturday morning that accused Hillary Clinton of being the "most corrupt candidate ever" by showing her face over a pile of money and next to the Star of David.
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Transparency International ranks Romania as one of the European Union's most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring, although it has praised magistrates for their efforts to root out high-level graft.
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In the past year Bulgarian prosecutors, eager to improve the country's reputation as one of the most corrupt EU member states, have charged several senior officials with mismanagement, including former ministers of energy, health and defense.
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Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) exclaimed during Wednesday's hearings that Ukraine was "one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet" so Trump said "time out, let's check out this new guy" before releasing the aid.
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Bulgaria, however, still ranked as the EU's most corrupt country in Transparency International's 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index and has been rapped repeatedly by Brussels for failing to combat rampant organized crime and jail high-level officials.
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Mr. Trump's campaign has jumped on the story, calling the Clinton Foundation "the most corrupt enterprise in political history" — while neglecting to mention that his own foundation has given at least $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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Those unsavory characters on the governing council, most of whom were allies of the United States from the preceding decade, went on to loot the country, making it one of the most corrupt in the world.
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After serving as a city mayor, he became governor of Jakarta, the capital, and won plaudits for cutting through red tape in a country with a reputation as one of the most corrupt in the world.
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Thanks to the efforts of a single-minded prosecutor, Romania's anti-corruption efforts have gained significant headway in the past few years, a welcome change in one of the most corrupt countries of the European Union.
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It was not so much the 'most corrupt administration in history' charge, or even the accusation that Nixon's tactics were those of the KKK; the charge that cut was the comparison of Nixon with [Adolf] Hitler.
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Somalia has held the undesirable title as the world's most corrupt country for the past ten years, with a score of 10 on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016, which ranks countries' public sector from zero to 100.
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The Balkan, formerly communist country is the poorest as well as one of the most corrupt countries in the EU, which it joined in 2007, and has made scant progress towards stamping out graft and organized crime.
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Bulgaria, whose lev currency is already pegged to the euro, meets the nominal criteria to adopt the single currency, with healthy public finances and low debt, but is also one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries.
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The move brings the country, ranked as one of the bloc's most corrupt, in line with eastern European Union peers Hungary and Poland in defying EU concerns over the independence of judiciaries and the rule of law.
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Sofia meets the nominal criteria to adopt the single currency, with low inflation and healthy public finances as well as the currency peg, but is also the EU's poorest state and also one of the most corrupt.
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Romania's justice minister has drafted an emergency decree that allows politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries to challenge the verdicts handed down by the supreme court.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Constitutional Court on Monday struck down changes to the criminal code made by the ruling Social Democrats that would have halted many anti-graft cases in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries.
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He replaced 80 percent of the top officials with Western-educated Afghans 25 to 35 years old who, in one of the country's oldest and most corrupt institutions, operate the city government like a start-up enterprise.
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Donors have expressed wariness at what some see as throwing good money into a black hole in Iraq, which Transparency International, an anti-corruption research group, ranks as among the 10 most corrupt nations in the world.
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Even as right-wing media tried to brand the Obama presidency as the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States, a cottage-industry of scandalmongers had already popped up to attack future Democratic nominees.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Anticorruption campaigners in Romania on Thursday claimed a pair of victories in their continuing struggle to hold public officials accountable in what many experts consider to be one of the European Union's most corrupt countries.
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The Pakistani economy is capsizing under the pressure of stolen billions, and we are one of the most corrupt countries in the world — but apparently one man taking $230 turned out to be one step too far.
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" Trump did not make direct reference to the new letter in his first campaign stop after it emerged, but he did assail Clinton as "the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.
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"We will beat the most corrupt president in American history by campaigning on the most aggressive anti-corruption plan since Watergate," Warren declared, referring to the scandal that led to former President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.
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Somalia, South Sudan, North Korea and Syria are perceived to be the most corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International's latest annual review that draws on a mix of business and government sources for its rankings.
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"In a collection of essays on the fight against corruption to be published on the day of the summit, President Ghani writes that Afghanistan is 'one of the most corrupt countries on earth'," a spokeswoman for Cameron said.
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Assuming Maduro, who so far retains the support of the military top command, will dig in, the Trump administration should move quickly to keep the pressure on, including by further tightening targeted sanctions on Venezuela's most corrupt officials.
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Kovesi has led the DNA anti-corruption agency since 2013 and, under her management, conviction rates have risen sharply in one of European Union's most corrupt states, winning plaudits from Brussels who has its judiciary under special monitoring.
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Romania, which has a population of more than 20 million, has long been considered one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, but in recent years the country has made strong efforts to rein in high-level graft.
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Bulgaria, whose lev currency is already pegged to the euro, meets the nominal criteria to adopt the single currency, with healthy public finances and low debt, but it is also one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries.
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The centrist opposition, which pushed for the no confidence vote, said the ruling party and its junior coalition partner ALDE were a threat to the rule of law and economic stability in one of the EU's most corrupt states.
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Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter, a staunch Trump critic, also called the president injecting his opinion into the Stone case "the politicization of prosecutors" while calling Barr "the most corrupt Attorney General in American history" in a Wednesday tweet.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's president on Wednesday rejected the government's nominee for chief anti-corruption prosecutor amid concerns among magistrates and diplomats that she might be soft on high-level graft in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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Perceived as one of Europe's most corrupt countries, according to Transparency International, Albania - which is already a NATO member - has made only limited progress in combating money laundering, EU and U.S. officials say, despite firing corrupt judges and prosecutors.
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Its lev currency is already pegged to the euro Sofia meets the nominal criteria to adopt the single currency, with low inflation and healthy public finances, but is also the EU's poorest state and one of its most corrupt.
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Romania, a country of 20 million people which hosts a U.S. ballistic missile defense station and is one of Washington's staunchest allies with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, remains among the poorest, most corrupt members of the European Union.
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It is unclear where the Trump campaign discovered the image, which placed the shape of the Star of David beside a picture of Hillary Clinton with text that read, "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" and a background of $100 bills.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's justice minister has drafted an emergency decree that allows politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries to challenge the verdicts handed down by the supreme court.
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who once joined Indonesian dictator Suharto and Serbian genocidaire Slobodan Milošević among the ranks of the world's most corrupt leaders, relied on a network of anonymous shell companies in Wyoming to plunder Ukraine.
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Oneal Davis, an officer who had recently retired from Ackal's department, told me the most corrupt, violent cops were the ones Ackal chose for promotion, a system that encouraged ever-increasing levels of brutality, a pyramid scheme of violence.
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The Chicago and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are the two most corrupt in the United States, based on the number of federal public corruption convictions from 1976 to 2016, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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I was born in one of the poorest, most corrupt nations on Earth — and that hasn't changed in 20 years — but the resilience of the people of Syria, of Afghanistan, of Iraq, means that we will want to better ourselves.
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Romania is one of the European Union's most corrupt states, and the PSD has been seen as a threat to judicial independence by the EU, the U.S. State Department and thousands of Romanian magistrates since it came to power in 2017.
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According to World Bank data, the country's gross domestic product per capita was $549.30 in 2015 – compared to $56,115.70 in the U.S. Plus, in its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2016, Transparency International ranked Somalia as the world's most corrupt country.
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John Harwood: Now, do you think that the fact that you've taken some criticism about conflicts of interest – you were on a watchdog group's list of most corrupt members of Congress – does that undercut your ability to pursue these issues?
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She has led anti-corruption prosecution agency DNA since 2013 and, under her management, conviction rates have risen sharply in one of the European Union's most corrupt states, winning praise from Brussels, which has Romania's justice system under special monitoring.
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Now he calls me racist-but I am least racist person there is" June, 2016: Trump tweets a photo of Hillary Clinton featuring a dollar bill covered background and a red, 6-pointed star with the words, "Most corrupt candidate ever.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states, and Brussels, which keeps the country's justice system under special monitoring, is especially concerned that the overhaul and the pending changes to the criminal code will reverse graft-fighting progress.
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" We stayed in motels, too, though they lacked the cheesy allure of Humbert's "countless motor courts [proclaiming] their vacancy in neon lights, ready to accommodate salesmen, escaped convicts, impotents, family groups, as well as the most corrupt and vigorous couples.
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"Trump's tweets on Sunday were aimed at "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who "came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).
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Dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979 and is Africa's second longest-ruling leader, is accused by critics of mismanaging Angola's oil wealth and making an elite vastly rich in a country ranked amongst the world's most corrupt.
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But they're really about something much deeper: discontent over the failure of Iraq's governing institutions, which are some of the most corrupt and mismanaged in the world, to provide even the most basic services — like electricity to power air conditioning.
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As the area braces for Hurricane Dorian, Trump lashed out against the territory on Twitter, slamming it as "one of the most corrupt places on earth" and praising himself as being "the best thing" to ever happen to the island.
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" Warren, who has joined others in vocally criticizing Trump's use of his own properties as president, released a policy proposal last month to address conflicts of interest in government, calling the Trump presidency the "most corrupt administration of our lifetimes.
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Sanders has called Trump a "liar and a cheat" and "the most corrupt president in the modern history of this country", but has not said he would support impeachment if it came to a vote in the Republican-led Senate.
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At Mr. Smith's suggestion, six women went to the Bahamian police — a big step, as law enforcement is considered the most corrupt public institution in the country, according to a 2017 Transparency International study, and sex crimes are notoriously underreported.
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The presumptive GOP presidential nominee's image showed the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" on a red six-pointed star that many said resembled the Star of David, a symbol that appears on the Israeli flag and is commonly associated with Judaism.
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Then in May 2015, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine asked Mr. Saakashvili — a former schoolmate — to become governor of the Odessa region, apparently in the hope that he could apply his experience in Georgia to one of Ukraine's most corrupt regions.
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PSD leader Liviu Dragnea told a 4,000-strong gathering that joining the euro zone was a mandatory and natural step for Romania - one the fastest growing economies in the European Union but still one of its poorest and most corrupt members.
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The protests were organized and promoted by groups of Romanians working abroad, angry at what they say is entrenched corruption, low wages and attempts by the PSD to weaken the judiciary in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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Next week, President Trump is poised to take his ongoing battles with mainstream political journalism to a new level by handing out what he's calling the "Fake News Awards," bestowed on "the most corrupt and biased" reporters and outlets around.
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On the one-year anniversary of her death, we speak to her nephew and one of her close friends about her lifetime protecting human rights -- and their fight for justice -- in one of the world's most corrupt nations, as ranked by Transparency International.
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Coming from a comfortable background in many ways cushioned him from the harshness of life in one of the world's most corrupt countries, and he'd bought into the ingrained Nigerian belief that being financially comfortable meant he couldn't really have any problems.
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Critics accuse Dos Santos - Africa's second longest-ruling leader after Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - of mismanaging Angola's oil wealth and making an elite, mainly his family and political allies, vastly rich in a country ranked amongst the world's most corrupt.
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Critics accuse Dos Santos - Africa's second longest ruling leader after Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - of mismanaging Angola's oil wealth and making an elite, mainly his family and political allies, vastly rich in a country ranked amongst the world's most corrupt.
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And then there&aposs good old Sally Yates, who signed off on, yes, one of the FISA warrants like Rosenstein and was emailing with Andrew Weissmann, the most corrupt member of Mueller&aposs team, after she refused to enforce the travel ban.
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And during the campaign, Trump pledged action to reform the VA. Trump called the department the "most corrupt" and "most incompetently run agency in the United States" during the 2016 campaign when he released a 10-point reform plan for the department.
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The protest was organized and promoted by groups of Romanians working abroad, angry at what they say is entrenched corruption, weak public administration and attempts by the ruling coalition to weaken the judiciary in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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A senior State Department official testified that he was alarmed at President Trump's demands that Ukraine investigate his political opponents, casting them as the kind of tactic the U.S. has condemned in the world's most corrupt countries, according to a transcript released yesterday.
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The presumptive GOP presidential nominee's image showd the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" on a red six-pointed star that many have pointed out resembles the Star of David, a symbol that appears on the Israeli flag and is commonly associated with Judaism.
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At least when the NCAA tournament starts, everyone is playing for a championship and that's cool; these games are cash grabs for everyone except the players, whose teams are at the mercy of a selection committee in the most corrupt organization in sports.
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" Mr. Bannon did, though, take aim at the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who has helped oversee a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against Mr. Moore, calling Mr. McConnell and his allies "the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country.
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He re-tweeted material from proudly anti-Semitic Twitter feeds, and prompted a furor by promoting an image that placed Hillary Clinton's face atop a pile of cash and beside a six-pointed star on which "most corrupt candidate ever" was written.
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The result is a political system among the most corrupt in the world, but with a twist of genius: the US Supreme Court has for all intents and purposes legalized the corruption and thereby put American democracy on a downward death spiral.
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They have no shame about contradicting statements they made just weeks ago, interpreting Trump's actions in a way inconsistent with the known facts, and insisting — absurdly — that arguably the most corrupt president in American history has good faith concerns about corruption abroad.
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In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Zelensky pushed back on the assertion Trump made in a Fox News interview last year that Ukraine is known as the third-most corrupt country in the world, instead claiming Kiev fights corruption every day.
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" In July 2016, Mr. Trump drew fierce criticism when his campaign released an ad about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, which depicted her superimposed on piles of cash, with a six-point Star of David and the phrase "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!
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The ruling centre-right GERB party, backed by some of its coalition allies and some opposition groups, approved the changes which it sees as a means to quell widespread frustration with political elites in the European Union's poorest and most corrupt member state.
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Schwartz's open letter spoke in-depth about her feelings towards a now-deleted photo that Trump tweeted on Saturday, which showed Hillary Clinton pasted onto a background made of hundred dollar bills, with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" written in a six-point star.
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The president has been exposed as arguably the most corrupt politician of the past 100 years as he continues to profit from his position in countless ways and his own lawyer is going to jail for something that the president instructed him to do.
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Here's a quick refresher: It's the summer of 2016, the election campaigns are still being waged, and Trump has just tweeted an image depicting Hillary Clinton with a Star of David and the phrase "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" atop a bed of dollar bills.
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So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly...... ....it is done.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee (or someone from his campaign) posted the image on Twitter on Saturday, which shows Clinton superimposed over a pile of money with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" framed by a six-pointed star, which resembles the Star of David.
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Liviu Dragnea was barred from becoming prime minister because of his conviction but holds a tight grip on the party, which swept into power last year and has since tried to weaken anti-corruption legislation in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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"After calling the Department of Veterans Affairs 'the most corrupt agency in the United States' on the campaign trail, the President-elect's decision to retain a current VA leader and Obama-appointee is a notable departure from his inflammatory rhetoric," Takano said in a statement.
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The move ushered in a legitimately scary new era of American politics, in which Trump has effectively been given free rein to indulge his most corrupt and authoritarian impulses, with little to no reason to fear that the legislative branch will hold him in check.
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The decision by President Jimmy Morales to go after a panel he had once readily accepted was a head-spinning turn for Guatemala, which is regarded as one of Latin America's most corrupt countries but which also appeared to be making progress toward accountability.
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The moderate government currently in power in Tehran – which had launched an aggressive crackdown on the most corrupt, anti-Western conservatives and restrained the hawks itching for conflict with the United States – will be sidelined even further as the voices demanding revenge gain considerable influence.
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Longtime friends, they are familiar with how their neighbors in San Antonio (home of the Butthole Surfers) and Austin regard the Rio Grande Valley: "There's a media narrative that we're the poorest, the least educated, the most corrupt, the most crime-ridden, the fattest," Mr. Vela said.
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Having failed to persuade Britons to stick with countries where they like to holiday, whose wine they happily imbibe and where many own homes, he will now try to convince them to send more money to some of the world's poorest, most corrupt and most violent places.
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Per the IndieGogo page, which describes the movie as a "true story of the most corrupt court case in history that led to the murder of 2 Million Babies," the fundraiser was backed by 1636 people and raised $134,572 of a $2 million dollar flexible goal.
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Tired of their scandal-ridden politics (Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe after Russia according to Transparency International), Ukrainians found in Holoborodko a man who not only entertained them but who also promised to defend their interests against those who would ransack the country.
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The regime in Azerbaijan—headed by President Ilham Aliyev and, swiping a move from House of Cards, his wife Mehriban Aliyeva as vice president—is one of the most corrupt, nepotistic governments within the post-Soviet space, and perhaps the most overt kleptocracy in the region.
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The Black Sea state is ranked as the most corrupt European Union member state by anti-graft group Transparency International and analysts say high-level corruption is the main obstacle to Bulgaria's ambitions of attracting more foreign investment and joining the EU's Schengen free travel zone.
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In 2315, Transparency International ranked the Philippines 214st out of the 163 countries on its Corruption Perceptions Index (that's the bad end); a similar ranking the following year by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy rated it the most corrupt nation in Asia.
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Just as the failure of the Obama Justice Department to punish the worst offenders in the 2008 financial crisis has emboldened this shameless crowd to pursue their old tricks yet again, the soft-on-slime prosecution of the most corrupt among us will not deter bad behavior.
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For years, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko acted as one of the most infamous kleptocrats not just in the country, but globally, earning his way onto the Transparency International list of the 10 most corrupt politicos, alongside monsters like Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Indonesia's Suharto.
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Combine Trump's actions with his tolerance for unethical cabinet officials — including ones who have made shady stock trades, accepted lavish perks or used government to promote their own companies or those of their friends — and the Trump administration is almost certainly the most corrupt in American history.
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" The former vice president lambasted Trump for asking foreign governments to investigate him and his son Hunter -- despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of either Biden -- at a forum in Iowa, saying that the President is leading the "most corrupt administration in modern American history.
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Part of your reasoning was that new members of the senate would be "picked from regional lawmakers and mayors by regional assemblies", and as these regions and municipalities form "the most corrupt layers of government", the consequence will be that the new senators "will enjoy immunity from prosecution".
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Among them there were reports accusing the leader of a Teacher's Union of not being a teacher; of the Buenos Aires Province Governor raising her own salary by 100% and even a claim that the US Government recorded Macri's Administration as being the most corrupt in the world.
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" "Which is why we are fighting to protect it from the worst, most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen," Omar wrote, adding that Trump is "stoking white nationalism" because he is "angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda.
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But whatever she's experiencing is obviously not compelling or severe enough to make her violate her notions of institutional decorum or consider the long-term consequences of looking the other way when the most corrupt, bigoted, and incompetent president in modern history continually escalates his corruptions, bigotries, and incompetence.
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WASHINGTON — The senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine told impeachment investigators last month that he was alarmed at President Trump's insistence that Ukraine "initiate politically motivated prosecutions," casting the effort as the kind of tactic the United States typically condemns in the world's most corrupt countries.
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In his single term as a congressman, he twice made the list of the most corrupt members of Congress published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan group, which cited claims he ran afoul of campaign finance laws and failed to report certain income sources.
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"These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, showing an inscription that says 'Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever' with anti-Semitism is ridiculous," Trump said in the statement.
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"Trump suggested that the congresswomen, who he said "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)," should "go back and help fix" the "places from which they came.
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Another point worth pondering is how it is that President Trump chose as his campaign chair someone like Manafort whose reputation in the political world was less about his political brilliance than about his ties to Russia and Ukraine (including some of the most corrupt people there) and his general shadiness.
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"These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, showing an inscription that says 'Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever' with anti-Semitism is ridiculous," Trump said in a statement.
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Sophal Ear, the author of Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy, told me that officials in Cambodia—which is routinely ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world—have a rich and sordid history of selling off licenses for dubious activities to the highest bidder.
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"Now I have to figure out how to continue to pour my heart and soul into every class I teach, knowing that every dollar riders spend with me is enriching a man who is supporting what I consider to the most corrupt, evil administration in our country's history," the instructor continued.
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In Malaysia, the company laid out the case for one of Asia's most corrupt leaders to pursue billions of dollars from China at a time when he was suspected of funneling vast sums of public money into his own pocket, drawing tens of thousands into the streets to protest against him.
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The infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world, about 30 percent of the population subsists on less than $1.90 a day and corruption is endemic — Angola ranks close to the bottom of 180 countries in the anticorruption monitor Transparency International's ranking of the world's most corrupt nations.
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He wanted to prompt the appointment of a special prosecutor because his BFF Robert Mueller who then appointed, let&aposs see, the most corrupt, the most dishonest merry band of anti-Trump Democratic donors -- those people who are now doing everything in their power and have been to take this president down.
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"If you step back for one second and think about this president, the most corrupt president in American history — [he's] somebody who is breaking the law on a daily basis, somebody who is reckless and dangerous and lawless," Steyer told Audie Cornish in an interview Sunday on BuzzFeed News' Facebook Watch show Profile.
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These events have started to get national attention recently, further confirming that Baltimore's police force continues to be one of the most corrupt in the US. But for many residents of the inner city, such news is not only old, but a reminder of why some of their lives have been permanently railroaded.
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"Instead, Trump suggested that the congresswomen, who he tweeted "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)," should "go back and help fix" the "places from which they came.
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Here's what you need to know: Somalia is ranked by Transparency International as the most corrupt country in the world, and while the country's major backers — which includes the United States, Britain, and the EU — had planned a one-person, one-vote election, that was simply not possible in the current climate.
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Typically a story will reference the dog whistles used by Trump campaign surrogates, and the retweeting of anti-Semitic memes such as the use — which Trump said was inadvertent — of a photo of Hillary Clinton next to a Jewish star of David emblazoned with the words "Most corrupt candidate ever!" atop a pile of money.
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The referendum and the EU election will be the first test of public support for the governing coalition and its judicial changes, which the European Union and U.S. State Department as well as Iohannis say undermine the rule of law and democratic standards in Romania, seen as one of the most corrupt EU states.
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Opinion Columnist More than 45 years ago, as a 14-year-old farm kid in Oregon, I watched on a flickering black-and-white television as Richard Nixon's former White House counsel, John Dean, testified about presidential misconduct in the Watergate scandal — and the second-most-corrupt administration in American history began to crumble.
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There are four different ages of the universe before the cycle starts over, supposedly, and we're actually in the age of vice, which is supposed to be — which is funny, cause that's who I'm talking to — but the age of vice: the worst, most corrupt age before karma gets a breaking point and the whole thing starts back over.
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"The Trump D.C. hotel has embodied the conflicts of interest and self-enrichment schemes that pervade the Trump administration, easily the most corrupt in modern American history," said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a group that has tracked millions of dollars in spending by political candidates, foreign governments and other politically connected groups at the hotel.
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Schwartz addresses Kushner, who is Jewish, directly and describes the hateful responses she received on social media after calling out Trump's now infamous (and deleted) Saturday morning tweet, which featured an image of Hillary Clinton set against a backdrop of cash, with "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" written across with a six-pointed star in the foreground.
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In a pre-taped interview with Good Morning America's Lara Spencer that aired on Tuesday, the 34-year-old dismissed the accusations, which arose after her 70-year-old father tweeted and deleted an image of Hillary Clinton calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the "most corrupt candidate ever" in a graphic many believed resembled the Star of David.
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The president blasted San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as "incompetent," demeaned the island as "one of the most corrupt places on earth" and diverted Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds toward the southern border even as his administration is expected to provide assistance to the U.S. territory in the wake of yet another large-scale storm.
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Their job is to get hold of at least one lever of power — the House or the Senate — in order to oust the most corrupt Republican lawmakers who lead key committees, to properly oversee the most reckless cabinet secretaries, like Scott Pruitt, and to protect the F.B.I., the Justice Department and Robert Mueller from Trump's intimidation.
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Romania, a country of 20 million which hosts a U.S. ballistic missile defense station, remains among the poorest and most corrupt members of the EU. Several more thousands protesting against graft and politicians' attempts to decriminalize several corruption offenses gathered in the Transylvanian cities of Cluj, Sibiu and Brasov, in Timisoara on the border with Serbia, and in the eastern city of Iasi.
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The declaration, which Mahathir read aloud in English at a press conference, said that Malaysia had descended to become one of the 10 most corrupt countries in the world under Najib's leadership; Mahathir didn't provide a source for that figure, although he noted that Malaysia fell four slots in the 19813 Transparency International corruption perception ranking from 50 to 54.
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Warren added on Saturday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's White House is "the most corrupt administration in living memory" when asked if there were any decent figures inside it.
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"He also addressed his decision to start the Need To Impeach movement, saying, "I knew there was something wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that we did have the most corrupt president in the country, and the voice and will of the American people would drag Washington to see it as a matter of right and wrong, not of political expediency.
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Mr. Trump is the most corrupt president in modern times, a reality Americans will continue to be reminded of — by continuing investigations by the House, which should immediately issue a subpoena to Mr. Bolton; by a trio of cases in the Supreme Court that seek to reveal Mr. Trump's shady finances; and, of course, by the behavior of the man himself.
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Donald Trump's rhetoric offers up clear examples: His tarring of George Soros as a shady billionaire pulling invisible strings to undermine America draws on old anti-Semitic tropes; in what is now a long-forgotten moment during his campaign, he tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton with a six-pointed star next to her face, the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" written inside.
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Trump's decision to inject millions of dollars into his financially struggling Trump National Doral Miami resort puts him at risk of violating the Constitution and adding momentum to the congressional investigation just as he embarks on his reelection campaign.. "The only logical conclusion is that President Trump is proud to be the most corrupt, lawless president in modern American history," said Rep.
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"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," he wrote. ….
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" Businessman Tom Steyer "Two years ago, I started the need-to-impeach movement because I knew there was something desperately wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that we did have the most corrupt President in the country and that only the voice and will of the American people would drag Washington to see it as a matter of right and wrong, not of political expediency.
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"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump wrote.
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So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly ...... and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro says President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE the "shadiest, most corrupt" person ever to win the presidency.
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So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly...... ....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
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So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE on Wednesday assailed Puerto Rico as one of the "most corrupt places on earth" while defending his administration's disaster relief efforts as the island braces for another major storm.
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Puerto Rican pop star Marc Anthony is pushing back against President TrumpDonald John TrumpJoe Biden's record – not his gaffes – is dooming his campaign Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively donate M to help migrant children, social justice MORE after he called the island territory "one of the most corrupt places on earth" earlier this week.
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"Any time this conspiracy theory is raised by the President or Senators who disrespect their office enough to transform their committees into craven arms of his re-election campaign, we will hammer -- with a baseball bat -- the fact that Donald Trump is hands down the most corrupt American president of all time," Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said in a statement.
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" On Sunday, the President tweeted, "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly ... and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
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"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted on Sunday.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 10 points 2020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump 21625 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters MORE's (I-Vt.), meanwhile, called Trump the "most corrupt president in modern history," but warned that the party would lose the election if they put too much focus on him.
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"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly … and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted early one morning.
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But the opposition, anti-corruption prosecutors, magistrates and hundreds of thousands of Romanian protesters said it had been tailor-made to amnesty dozens of politically-affiliated public officials convicted or accused of abuse of office in one of the most corrupt members of the EU. The European Commission and the United States both condemned the government's move as backtracking on anti-graft reforms and the widely-acclaimed work of anti-corruption prosecutors.
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Kaleniuk: I think it is insulting to Ukraine because when we try to expose corruption in Ukraine, when we name and blame public officials who are corrupt, and at the end we see them buying influence in the United States, buying connections to decision-makers in the United States, it indicates that basically the most corrupt people in Ukraine can whitewash their reputation, simply pouring their dirty money into into the United States.
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"I am eager to continue working to advance the best interests of the American people and restoring the focus of Washington where it belongs: economic prosperity, national security and government accountability," Mr. Issa, often cited as one of the wealthiest members of Congress, said in a statement provided to The A.P. Mr. Issa, who was first elected to Congress in 2000, frequently criticized President Obama, whom he once called "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times" before apologizing for the remark.
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All four of the freshman congresswomen are U.S. citizens, and only Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the U.S. "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted Sunday.
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It's what you have when you voted to drain the swamp but elected a contender for the most corrupt administration in history; when you're the balanced-budget free-trade party papering over the economic holes from your tariffs with a $12 billion giveaway; when the family values party has to explain the payoff to this mistress during the marriage to wife number three; when email protocol outrage nets you the president with the unsecured cell phone; when President Deals gives North Korea's chief bellhop what he wants and gets ashes in return.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Sunday lashed out at a group of progressive Democrats, saying the female lawmakers should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" before criticizing policies in the U.S. "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump said in an early morning string of tweets.
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