Defanging Laws and Bringing Home Billions: How Trump Has Rewritten the Corruption Rulebook At Home and Abroad

Hall documents the weakening of U.S. anti-corruption safeguards alongside unprecedented questions about presidential enrichment. The article traces removals of inspectors general, vacancies in watchdog offices, and the rollback of beneficial-ownership disclosure for U.S. companies.

OCCRP interviews experts about the domestic and international consequences and asks whether the opposition has a credible restoration plan. The article is forcefully framed, but it assembles specific institutional changes that can be checked against public records.