Ample official evidence exists that the Trump administration was the most corrupt in modern American history. Donald Trump’s overall pattern of behavior not only resembled, but amplified that of major white-collar criminals. This paper has two main foci. First, it argues that government criminality and corruption were facilitated by rationales and excuses that denied effective social condemnation of such acts. Second, it considers how these defenses were weaponized by the Trump administration as part of a much larger and more deliberate “war on white-collar crime” more generally. As a result, enormous efforts are necessary to restore and strengthen regulatory and enforcement regimes, and transcend deepened political cleavages on such matters. Through a new hybrid neutralization technique, normalization of condemning the condemners, Trump exacerbated existing political differences and influenced supporters to at once ignore government crime and corruption, and accept new moral narratives that flew in the face of substantial evidence of criminality.

有充分的官方证据表明，特朗普政府是现代美国历史上最腐败的政府。唐纳德特朗普的整体行为模式不仅与主要白领罪犯相似，而且放大了这一模式。这篇论文有两个主要焦点。首先，它认为政府犯罪和腐败是由否认有效社会谴责此类行为的理由和借口助长的。其次，它考虑了特朗普政府如何将这些防御武器化为更广泛、更深思熟虑的“打击白领犯罪战争”的一部分。因此，需要付出巨大努力来恢复和加强监管和执法制度，并超越在此类问题上加深的政治分歧。通过一种新的混合中和技术，谴责谴责者的正常化，