Question

Hello and blessings.
My question may seem political. But for me, and apparently for many others like me, it is a basic faith question of the highest order.
Is it reasonable to assume that He who chose us from among all the nations, and “to set you high above all the nations that He made, for praise and for renown and for glory,” wants us to crown over ourselves bribery, fraud, and breach of trust? Something that even lowly nations are ashamed of?
I assume the answer is: no!
At present it seems that most Orthodox rabbis whose voices are heard in public support this, and support parties that declare that they are going to crown a person suspected of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust over the children of Israel.
Is it proper for an upright person [one who has not fallen into the nonsense and delusions that he is being persecuted because he is this or that, but rather reads the indictment and is horrified that such a situation could rule, and that with such a cloud hanging over it might perhaps contaminate all the systems] to conclude from this: “If one merits it, it becomes for him an elixir of life; if one does not merit it, it becomes for him an elixir of death”? And perhaps most Orthodox rabbis [whose voices are heard in public on current issues] are not clearly on the side of “if one merits it, it becomes for him an elixir of life”?
And if they can be a source of harm and a stumbling block, and in the sin that is hardest of all to forgive [the four divisions of atonement, and regarding desecration of God’s name it is said, “Surely this iniquity shall not be atoned for you until you die,” God forbid] to the holy people, then all the more so one should not rely on their judgment in less severe matters such as the Jewish laws of niddah / Sabbath. And all the more so, the son of a son of an all-the-more-so, in much less severe matters, such as the laws of hand-washing and the like.
How much effort must one make to believe that they represent the will of the Creator, may He be blessed, when it is clear that they are mistaken, misleading others, and causing them to stumble in the gravest of grave matters?