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And when it comes to potential ethics violations, those are just the tip of the iceberg.

The OGE's numbers in the chart above suggest that many voters are deeply concerned about these issues. During the two fiscal quarters covering Barack Obama's first election and inauguration (October 2008 to March 2009), the OGE fielded 733 inquires from the public.

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By contrast, during the comparable period for the Trump administration (October 2016 to March 2017), the office has received 39,105 inquires -- an increase of roughly 5,200 percent.

OGE Director Walter Shaub says his office is inundated with calls and emails. “We've even had a couple days where the volume was so huge it filled up the voicemail box, and we couldn't clear the calls as fast as they were coming in,” he told NPR News earlier this week.

But OGE can only advise the executive branch -- it doesn't have the power to investigate potential violations or enforce its own guidelines. That work falls to the House Oversight Committee, led by Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz. Chaffetz has not been terribly interested in investigating White House ethics breaches so far. (He also on Wednesday announced he will not seek reelection.)

While the White House has dismissed ethics concerns, saying that legally speaking it's impossible for a president to have conflict of interest and claiming that the public doesn't care, this past weekend saw widespread public protests calling on the president to release his tax returns.