Citizens for Ethics

Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings. Presidents are not kings.

Yes, the plan to use a company the president owns and profits from to construct a library/hotel that’s funded by a charity run by the same son who runs that company to display a Qatari jet is, in fact, an ethics disaster.  citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's Great American Road Trip needs to be investigated. Accepting gifts from companies with business before the Department of Transportation raises huge corruption concerns. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…

The Gold Card visa would allow the Trump administration to prioritize corporate and wealthy interests without considering the impact on the rest of the country and create opportunities for fraud and abuse. We broke it all down here: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

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The court recently questioned whether Trump and the IRS he oversees were adverse enough parties to allow his lawsuit to proceed. So Trump is scheming to settle the case and create a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay his allies. Not ok. Not allowed. forbes.com/sites/alisondu…

Since Trump’s second term started, the DOJ has lost over 6,000 years’ worth of agency expertise from over 600 officials who have been fired or resigned as a result of politicization of the agency. This is NOT normal. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

The DOD IG rejected CREW's request for an investigation into military helicopter flying over Kid Rock's home. This refusal is deeply alarming. How can we trust that there is real oversight at the DOD?

Anyone else think that now would be a really good time for transparency into President Trump's attempts to steal $10 billion from American taxpayers by suing the IRS? We're investigating and filing records requests. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

As the cracks in our democracy deepen and President Trump's abuses of power continue unchecked, it's critical that we pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act and finally place needed guardrails against presidential misconduct. raskin.house.gov/2026/5/raskin-…

Donald Trump cannot get away with suing the IRS for $10 billion and then settling with a DOJ *he* oversees for a $1.7 billion slush fund dedicated to granting his allies payouts. This is absolutely unconstitutional and unethical. abcnews.com/US/trump-poise…

Trump's Gold Card visa program institutes a pay-to-play scheme in which immigrants can make $1M payments to become a legal U.S. resident in "record time." It's yet another example of the admin's attempts to generate a largely unrestricted slush fund. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

It should be abhorrent to every American that President Trump is trying to take $1.7 billion of *their* taxpayer dollars to give to his allies. Especially Jan 6 insurrectionists who tried to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss and who've posed public safety risks ever since.

Read more here: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

NEW: We requested records from the DOJ, Treasury Department and the IRS on Trump’s settlement negotiations to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration. The public urgently needs answers about this unprecedented lawsuit and the conflicts it poses.

Check out our new Q&A breaking it all down: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

NEW: The fact that the Trump Organization is developing the Trump Presidential Library (which might actually be a hotel) has flown under the radar, and it raises lots of ethics concerns. Among them: Eric Trump's leadership of both, and how it can operate as a nonprofit.

Presidents shouldn't be day trading. That's obvious. But Trump takes every chance he finds to turn a profit of the presidency. It's staggeringly corrupt.

It's almost impossible to overstate how unprecedented Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS is, and how outrageous it is that the DOJ is reportedly in talks to settle the lawsuit. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…

600+ DOJ officials have resigned in protest or been fired since the start of the Trump administration, as a result of DOJ politicization. That's 6,000 years of expertise lost. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

Trump lost the presidential election in 2020. But officials keep promoting debunked election theories from within the government and have successfully begun to reshape our elections. That's beyond alarming. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…