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38 Reasons to Investigate the Trump Administration
Joe Biden should create a truth commission to get to the bottom of the past four years
Over the past four years, we’ve experienced unprecedented levels of incompetence, graft, and abuse of power in the White House, as well as in nearly every federal department. Each week brought fresh outrage to a dizzying degree. Every time the curtain lifted, often the result of a leak or congressional inquiry, we’d find scandals that would have leveled previous administrations. And that was all before President Trump began pressuring state officials to overturn the election results and incited a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.
With Joe Biden set to enter the Oval Office next week, there is still plenty left to investigate. That’s why the president-elect needs to form a truth commission to start the process of figuring out what the heck just happened over the past four years.
Here’s a list of topics meriting a truth commission, or a formal criminal investigation, as we try to understand the scope of the disaster that was the Trump administration:
