John,

There’s no question that the outcome of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial was disappointing. 43 senators decided to look past the damning evidence against him for an overwhelmingly serious offense against the country, and despite the fact that they represent a minority of the country, they carried the day for now.

Instead of dwelling on that failure, I want to talk about all the other avenues for accountability for the abuses of the Trump administration.

There’s Trump’s criminal liability for seditious conspiracy, and there’s the new criminal investigation into his call to push a Georgia election official about “finding” him votes. We filed criminal complaints about both, and in these cases the legal system also has a chance to impose justice.

Financial disclosures filed by departing Trump administration officials are exposing how much they cashed in and what their plans are post-government. We learned last week that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump disclosed between $127 million and $640 million in outside income during the four years they worked “for free” at the White House. We also learned from Kayleigh McEnany’s disclosure that at one point, she had an agreement with Fox News to start work there in January, but after we published her disclosure, Fox put out a strange statement saying she was not “currently” working there.

The Freedom of Information Act also continues to help CREW turn up new damning information. Most recently, CREW discovered that Mike Pompeo spent more than $10,000 taxpayer dollars on 400 pens that his office had engraved in China for his notorious “Madison Dinners” with prominent GOP figures.

Following the money that floods our elections often reveals things that politicians, dark money groups and corporations may not want people to know. CREW just launched a tracking project to monitor how 190+ corporations will hold up their pledges to pause donations to lawmakers who encouraged the insurrection. We also revealed that campaign donations from Nationwide Insurance to the Georgia senate races paled next to the company’s donations to a dark money group, apparently to impact the same races, which we normally would never find out about.

If you thought government ethics and money in politics news would slow down after Trump departed the White House for Mar-a-Lago…you were sorely mistaken. As you can see, CREW is not letting up anytime soon. Thank you for following along with us as we continue to push for accountability.

Noah Bookbinder
President, CREW

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