CORRUPTIONLAND streams free online for all Americans, one week before Election Day
WASHINGTON — October 27, 2026 — DEFIANCE.org today released CORRUPTIONLAND, a documentary investigation into corruption in Trump’s Washington, along with a public ledger documenting 100 episodes of alleged corruption and abuses of power since Donald Trump’s re-election that together implicate more than $377 billion.
The 35-minute film streams free beginning today at CORRUPTIONLAND.org, alongside an interactive map of Washington that lets viewers explore each alleged episode of corruption. The $377 billion figure is a measure of scale, representing public money, private benefit, and/or transaction volume involved in the top 100 alleged cases of corruption. Many instances carry no dollar value, as they are difficult to quantify, such as the prosecution of the president’s critics or the total economic cost of retaliatory tariffs.
“For two years, Trump’s scandals have hit one at a time, and each one gets buried under the next,” said Miles Taylor, executive producer of the film and the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. “So we added them up. When you put 100 episodes in one place, the scale is staggering: $377 billion in a tangled web of alleged corruption that is without any precedent in American history. Even that number undersells it, because you can’t put a price on the president’s revenge agenda and his weaponization of federal power. Every American deserves to see the full picture before they vote, and now they can.”
In the film, Taylor walks the National Mall with Donald Sherman, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), to observe sites related to alleged presidential misconduct. Taylor also sits down with former officials and advocates who watched the government’s safeguards dismantled from the inside, including former DOJ Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer, former ABC News journalist Terry Moran, former FBI official Chris O’Leary, Democracy Forward president Skye Perryman, Representatives Jason Crow, and others. The documentary traces how the five “filters” that historically checked presidential corruption — from White House ethics lawyers to inspectors general to Congress — have been purged, captured, or sidelined.
Production faced headwinds of its own. While filming in September, the crew was ordered out of the Washington Monument after government staff realized what was being filmed, a scene that appears in the finished documentary.
For the first time in recorded history, Americans say “corruption” is their number-one worry ahead of an election. The producers found that never before has that category surpassed the economy as a voting issue in an election year since polling began. Meanwhile, a Gallup poll found 89 percent of Americans believe government corruption is widespread, the highest figure ever recorded and a view shared across party lines (83 percent of Republicans, 91 percent of Democrats). The United States tops all OECD nations on that measure.
About DEFIANCE.org: DEFIANCE.org is a nonprofit “club for the courageous,” launched in October 2025 to counter government corruption and abuses of power. The organization announces new anti-corruption actions every week, including backing lawsuits against the federal abuses of power, supporting whistleblowers, launching national election protection initiatives, and more.
Press contact: For interviews with Miles Taylor and the other producers, or questions about the film’s release, please email press@defiance.org.
