Officials charged, convicted, imprisoned, and pardoned — Nixon through the present, Republicans and Democrats side by side. This is the comparison that tells you whether "unprecedented" is accurate or just loud.
Click any row for context. Counts are best-available aggregations from PolitiFact, Rantt Media, DOJ records and Wikipedia compilations — they vary by inclusion criteria and are not definitive tallies.
First: corruption is genuinely bipartisan and genuinely old. Nixon's administration saw 76 officials charged. Reagan's saw 26, with Iran-Contra running arms sales around an explicit congressional ban. Clinton pardoned a fugitive whose ex-wife was a major donor and was impeached. Bush commuted Libby. Biden pardoned his own son. Anyone claiming their side has clean hands has not read the table.
Second, and more important: in every one of those cases the indictment and conviction columns have numbers in them. Someone investigated. Someone charged. Juries convicted. That is what those columns measure — not just wrongdoing, but a system detecting it.
The present row reads zero for indictments. That is not a claim of innocence and it is not a claim of guilt. It reflects two documented facts: Justice Department policy bars charging a sitting president, and the unit that investigates administration officials went from about 36 lawyers to 2. When the detection capacity is reduced, the detection statistics fall — which is exactly why this site measures the present administration through money flows, court rulings and congressional findings instead of prosecution counts.