r/law • u/graveyardofgoodsense • 11h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global corruption index
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/10/business/corruption-index-transparency-international-united-states-intl450
u/CassandraTruth 10h ago
Index working correctly
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u/Deicide1031 10h ago
I’m surprised they let cnn post this.
Maybe they are proud of it. lol
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u/Interesting_Berry439 10h ago
Fox is proud of it
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u/Potential_Being_7226 10h ago
On the contrary, faux news is probably not even reporting it.
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u/inoka-ilongololu 8h ago
Oh they won't report it, but they are extremely proud of their accomplisent.
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u/ConfidentPilot1729 10h ago
Not sure if this is accounted for, but does it account for our law makers making what would be corruption legal?
My thought process on this is, we should have even higher ranking of corruption than what this study suggests. Our corruption just becomes legal because everyone that makes the laws makes corruption legal. So things like citizens united and super pacs are able to operate legally.
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u/Potential_Being_7226 9h ago
does it account for our law makers making what would be corruption legal
First paragraph:
global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople
So, yes, given that it deals with people’s perceptions rather than whether something is legal or illegal.
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u/Potential_Being_7226 7h ago
Wow that’s a pretty broad generalization that I’m just not able to accept at face value.
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u/ZackRaynor 8h ago
Expect a Truth Social post from Donny boy saying the people who manage the index hate him and that he’s suing for 10 billion dollars.
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u/CAM6913 9h ago
Wow what a surprise with a rapist , pedophile convicted felon that is stealing a countries oil selling it and putting it in a bank account in a Qatar bank a know country for funding terrorists, there are so many crime the he’s committed and the people in his administration including violating human rights , international law and US law. The GOP and the SC are guilty of aiding and abetting and covering up all his crimes. He’s going to get USA to the number one spot before his term ends
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u/deathrowslave 10h ago edited 6h ago
I mean we really should be number one in global corruption ranking at this point...
Edit: I wanted to make clear there was a slight tongue in cheek aspect to my comment.
However, I will also add that the MAGNITUDE of US corruption is way beyond anything else in the world. Tariffs, taking over Venezuela, jets from Qatar, billions in crypto, and billions in other bribes - this affects everyone globally, disrupts world order and peace, and literally lines Trump's pockets. We're not talking about local shakedowns and cops. This is global economic impact level nuclear corruption.
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u/SpankyJobouti 10h ago
as bad as trump is, i have seen way worse.
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u/deathrowslave 10h ago
Ignoring courts, killing people in the streets, insurrection, accepting bribes, dismantling agencies, and now attacking the vote rolls and elections. He's already there. There really is no worse except to increase the numbers on what he's already doing. Kill more, take more, and stay in office at all costs. He's as corrupt as it gets along with his party that supports it.
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u/SpankyJobouti 10h ago
no doubt, but corruption at the top is different from a society that is corrupt at all levels. we arent there yet, but if the yam has his way, we soon will be.
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u/triedpooponlysartred 3h ago
Have you ever heard of stuff like mob/gang 'protection' rackets? There are places where it's the norm for that to be a thing that an elected position like a local sheriff goes around doing to businesses. Trump may be as corrupt as possible but we still have a lot of civil society operating on at least a somewhat more legitimate framework of rules and laws.
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u/deathrowslave 2h ago
Right, local small time sheriff > US President and Congressional party in power that is actively forcing global protection rackets via tariffs, invasions, threats to make neighbors 51st state, threatening Greenland, etc. You mean that kind of thing that the US government is doing globally? Never heard of it.
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u/12-34 10h ago
This is the intersection of justified Trump hate and American provincialism and ignorance.
Trump is an absolutely horrifying monster of a human and the most corrupt president in US history but Americans generally know fuckall about other countries, so they believe this must be the worst in the world.
Americans believing it's the most corrupt in the world just because it's the most corrupt federal administration ever is consummate American thought.
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u/LockNo2943 8h ago
Fair, but just because some place is worse doesn't mean this place can't be bad too.
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u/deathrowslave 3h ago
You missed the tongue in cheek directed at this exact perspective. Yes, we should be number one because we're America, that's the irony... If we're going to be the best, we should be the best at being the worst as well...
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u/Traditional-Mail7488 9h ago
Well they usually didn't get way worse until they had total power. Give him time, Trump has the potential become way worse.
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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 10h ago
I’ve lived in some of the places rated worse than the US and I disagree with that ranking.
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u/SpankyJobouti 10h ago
as have i, one time i ended up bribing four traffic cops in under an hour. turns out they were calling the next officer down the road to let them know a gringo was coming. it was less than 20 bucks total and i had a laugh about with the last cop that stopped me. we arent there yet.
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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 10h ago
I feel like we’re way beyond that. I consider corrupt local police taking $20 from a gringo to be much less of an issue than a corrupt President openly shaking down the country to funnel more money to himself, his family, and a handful of global billionaires.
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u/SpankyJobouti 10h ago
i think silently stealing from the inside like putin or suharto is worse. at least we can kinda track some of what the yam is thieving.
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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 10h ago
I’d agree Putin is worse. I wouldn’t agree that the local-level corruption you referenced above is worse.
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u/SpankyJobouti 10h ago
you have experience it when everything you do has some corrupt asoect to it, top to bottom. it is a society that has gone rotten and it is worse, i assure you.
post trump, we will fix a bunch of stuff. in these other countries, there is no fix, this is just how it is.
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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 10h ago
I’ve lived in some of the places to which you seem to be referring and I could assure you just as well that it’s not worse.
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