As a non american this whole thing has a stink to me of corruption, although a lot of your politics does (no offence, you folks just seem pretty tolerant of money in politics).
Do you guys have an independent (ie beyond the whitehouses reach) corruption watchdog? Cos this dude seriously needs to be refered to it to find out whos fucking payroll he's on.
Oh, yeah, we got lots of corruption here. That's what happens when various corporate interests effectively take over the government. The vast majority of the population have been shut out of the political process, at least at the state and national level. They can vote every few years for Kang or Kodos and nothing much changes.
The USA is effectively an oligarchy at this point. I think most Americans realize this on some level. But we don't want to admit how bad things really are. We have a self image as the Greatest Democracy In The World. Our national narcissism prevents us from honestly taking stock of the situation.