Beyond The Brink and Fighting Back from Public Corruption with Mary Anne Sharkey 5/20

Veteran Ohio political writer Mary Anne Sharkey discusses the massive graft and abuse we are witnessing in the second Trump term and ponders why it seems so hard to stop it.Is making a president’s every action in office unpunishable as the Supreme Court has done a good idea?What do you see as the worst public corruption scandal in the news lately? A. A DOJ slush fund for the president to pay off friends. B. A deal with the IRS that keeps the agency from auditing Trump, his company and his family C. Insider stock trading by high-level officials.Mary Anne Sharkey has been an Ohio-based newspaper reporter and editor all her adult life, serving in a series of leading roles at the Cleveland Plain Dealer especially. The first woman elected president of the Ohio Legislative Correspondent Association, she is an expert on Ohio politics and government. She also has been a strong proponent of women journalists as a board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation.