The anti-democratic forces that brought Trump to office remain a serious threat at all levels of government.

"This reads less like a list of pardons than a desperate, last-minute argument that political corruption should not be a crime," said American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers.

See the latest in our investigations of the security at the U.S. Capitol, DOJ’s opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, and the “burrowing in” of Trump political appointees.

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Krebs was fired in November after his office pushed back on the president’s false claims of a stolen election.

American Oversight obtained documents that shed light on the aggressive response to protests as well as the lack of coordination between federal and local officials regarding the politicized Operation Legend program.

Even as Trump’s presidency sunsets, it’s still hard to tell how much money went from public coffers into his pockets.

The Trump administration may be ending in less than a week, but the work of protecting our democracy will continue.

Summary: See the latest in our investigations of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, the resignation of U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak, and states’ responses to the pandemic.