What exactly does the appointment have to do with the corruption taking place?
That’s how politics has devolved in the US. As long as you’re on the correct side, you can be as corrupt as you want and the people on that side will shrug and go “not a big deal.”
Note, please, that this problem is not the same with all political parties. For example, our House Speaker just announced an inquiry into impeachment proceedings for Joe Biden, apparently for governing while Democrat. The response from the left-wing is generally to roll our eyes and point out this is just political theater. If they actually find something actionable, then we’ll agree that he should be removed from office and thrown in jail. But in 2021 Republican leadership outright admitted that Trump was culpable for the Jan 6 insurrection riot at the capitol, but still refused to impeach because he’s a Republican.
This is how broken American politics have become. We’re trying to maintain our faith in the system and trust our leaders to do the right thing, but an entire faction of our leadership wants to break the government and replace it with private, profit-based solutions. So here we are. We ought to be marching, but the protests against racism and discrimination didn’t get us anywhere either. So we don’t know what else to do and we’re not eager for a second civil war.