The Lever

This is corruption, this is bribery, don't let it stand.

This corruption is an American issue.

We live in a corrupt nation, a nation corrupt to its bones.

We have reached a saturation point of corruption at the federal level.

It is corrosive on society because nobody has any trust or belief or puts any legitimacy

in our institutions anymore.

When I say the word corrupt, what jumps into your mind?

Maybe you think about a file on your computer's hard drive not working, or the blue screen of

death.

The file has been corrupted.

The DX has corrupted my system.

Maybe you think of some faraway regime on the other side of the world, where government

officials get rich while everyone else starves. Somalia has held the title of being one of the world, where government officials get rich while everyone else starves.

Somalia has held the title of being one of the world's most corrupt countries for the past decade.

Maybe you think of something from pop culture, like the Nevada senator and the godfather demanding a bribe from the Corleone family.

Or maybe you think of the wires walking bribery machine, Clay Davis.

She...

If you're a Republican political junkie, this is probably what comes to mind.

Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company, paid Hunter Biden millions of dollars to serve on its board of directors.

And if you're a Democratic political junkie, I'm guessing you think of stuff like this.

Trump told the group that they should donate a billion dollars to his presidential campaign

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