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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek Expose': TRUMP IS LEADING THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY
Hed promised to build the wall. To make America great again. To lock her up. Now, in the last weeks of his campaign for president, Donald J. Trump needed one more stirring slogan. And since he was badly trailing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, it would have to be a marketing marvel worthy of Mad Mens Don Draper, one that encapsulated the vague yet compelling promise of his candidacyits worship of American ideals and its total break from them.
On October 17, 2016, the Trump-Pence campaign released a five-point plan for ethics reform that featured lobbying restrictions that would insulate Trump and his administration from corporate and interests. The plan was called drain the swamp.
Trump tried out the phrase that day at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He used it the next day at a rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Were going to end the government corruption, Trump vowed, and were going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. He then recited a litany of accusations regarding Clinton and her use of a private email server, calling her the most corrupt person to ever run for the presidency.
(skipping forward a bit)
Now, a year after the electionand more than a year after Trump first made that pledge to the American peoplemany observers believe the swamp has grown into a sinkhole that threatens to swallow the entire Trump administration. The number of White House officials currently facing questions, lawsuits or investigation is astonishing: Trump, being sued for violating the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution by running his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; Paul J. Manafort, the second Trump campaign manager, indicted on money laundering charges in late October; Flynn, for undisclosed lobbying work done on behalf of the Turkish government; son-in-law and consigliere Jared Kushner, for failing to disclose $1 billion in loans tied to his real-estate company; and at least six Cabinet heads being investigated for or asked about exorbitant travel expenses, security details or business dealings.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935
unblock
(52,179 posts)"good" in the sense of might shatter all records, that is....
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They ARE the swamp.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and business reception areas around the country. This mag will be picked up and read by people, who have nothing better to do. And yes, it will be discounted by some as fake news. But it will be read by others, who apolitical. It adds to the mounting dislike and disdain for all things Trump.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Actually most of them are over a year old.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Naturally all the cable news folks will be fixated on Hillary and the DNC for the next 4-5 days instead...
WinstonSmith00
(228 posts)Of course its corrupt.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"Newsweek says I am the MOST corrupt, meaning I am winner. I always win. Nobody is more corrupt than me"