Ex-Ethics Chief: Officials Who Defend Trump Are Waging ‘War on Democracy’

“We are in dangerous territory,” Walter Shaub cautioned in a lengthy Twitter thread.

The former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Friday used a lengthy Twitter thread to warn about the people in positions of power who continue to defend President Donald Trump’s “indefensible” actions.

“Rather than risking a short-term political defeat, these anti-patriots wage war on democracy itself,” wrote Walter Shaub in the first of 11 tweets. “We are in dangerous territory.”

Shaub, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama and quit after serving during the first six months of the Trump administration, listed a slew of examples of Trump’s alleged ethics violations to back up his claim.

View the complete October 26 article by Lee Moran on the Huffington Post website here.