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And the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is also at risk in the sprawling
scandal.
It took the Watergate
scandal
in 1974 and Nixon’s resignation to make Gerald Ford (who became President upon Nixon’s resignation) lose in 1976.
BERLIN – Though the British Labour Party’s anti-Semitism
scandal
has dominated headlines of late, there is a more profound debate with the same theme taking place in Germany.
Such rumors may well turn out to be true, for the heart of the
scandal
now concerns the taped conversations between a paid escort and Berlusconi during their romps in his Sardinian villa on the big bed given to him by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Amid these plans and predictions, a growing banking
scandal
has reminded Italians that, in politics, luck can sometimes make the difference.
Otherwise, they may face serious financial and reputational risks, exemplified in QIA’s losses following Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions
scandal.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is mired in a corruption scandal, while former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad recently founded a new political party, which may ally itself with longtime opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s party, despite Mahathir having once purged Ibrahim from the government.
Consider Brazil, whose currency, the real, has been hammered since mid-2014 – much worse than most other emerging-market currencies – largely because of a major corruption
scandal
unfolding there.
Yet the most important outcome of the
scandal
has been to highlight the remarkable strength, not weakness, of Brazil’s legal and democratic institutions.
In Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak has been at the center of a major political
scandal
since nearly $700 million in unaccounted funds was found in his bank accounts.
In “Baron Noir” (Black Baron), a popular French TV series, a president engulfed in a financial
scandal
nearly escapes public indignity by mounting a coalition against EU deficit fines.
It was Brozo the Clown who exposed a major corruption
scandal
in the office of a former Mexico City mayor.
(The massive corruption
scandal
engulfing Petrobras, the state-owned oil company, which Rousseff used to head, has not helped her case.)
But beyond this
scandal
lies a more chilling sequence of events.
Paralyzed by Macron’s steady drumbeat of important reforms, his opponents found in the Benalla scandal, at long last, a good fight to fight.
With the state and government acting with such alacrity, covering up nothing, this is no grave
scandal
that should threaten a government.
In the wake of the ensuing scandal, the New York Times invited experts to comment on whether “the pervasiveness of cheating” has made moral behavior passé.
Volkswagen’s stock has lost more than one-third of its value since the
scandal
broke.
Despite similarities with President Richard M. Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” 44 years ago, during the Watergate scandal, the political situations are utterly different.
Once their reporting gained traction, the rest of the press picked up the
scandal
and kept up the pressure on the Nixon White House.
In Brazil, the government has been cutting an enormous fiscal deficit just as the economy is recovering from its deepest recession in decades (though the corruption
scandal
now embroiling President Michel Temer may derail that effort).
For example, Brazil must contend with a recession, low oil prices, and an unprecedented corruption
scandal
at Petrobras, the state oil company.
The authorities’ heavy-handed retaliation for a legitimate inquiry became an international scandal, eroding confidence in the commitment of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to democratic norms.
Making matters worse, the
scandal
is likely to embolden military leaders, whose political power and ambitions the AKP had ostensibly neutralized.
The current
scandal
has changed everything.
The administration’s tacticians appear to think that they are not on board – especially after the recent AIG bonus
scandal
– whereas the Geithner Plan relies on authority that the administration already has.
NEW HAVEN – Those labels that you see on packaged foods listing their ingredients and nutritional values had their beginnings in an international
scandal
and in the efforts by governments to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed.
The
scandal
erupted with the publication in 1906 of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, a bestseller that detailed the experiences of a Lithuanian immigrant family working in America’s meatpacking industry.
Indeed, the
scandal
set in motion a sequence of laws in countries around the world that today require food labeling to go beyond mere lists of ingredients to include information about the vitamins, minerals, and calories that products contain.
Public outcry at a time of
scandal
forced progressive change then; we should hope that it does so now.
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