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A Swamp Tour of Trump's Washington
* The current administration is awash in government ethics violations, business conflicts, potential criminal acts, and flagrant lying.
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“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only machinery for its execution, nothing more,” Twain wrote.
In other words, what really matters is whether the government works for the people or for those running it. Amid the fervor of daily scandal seeping from the White House— Bob Woodward’s Fear and an anonymous New York Times op-ed being the latest catalysts—it’s easy to overlook how President Trump and his team make for an unusually conflicted bunch.
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Investigations surrounding the Trump team have led to indictments of more than 30 people
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The inventory of current problems includes cabinet members awash in ethics violations and business conflicts, potentially criminal acts by congressional supporters, and lying by aides and advisers.
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Trump’s portfolio is a mass of ethical fault lines. His foreign policy inevitably intersects with his enterprises in places such as Dubai, Indonesia, and India....he signed a large federal tax cut with provisions that kept tax payments low for real estate developers like him. He also owes more than $300 million to Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG—financial-services companies regulated by his administration. - Bloomberg
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“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only machinery for its execution, nothing more,” Twain wrote.
In other words, what really matters is whether the government works for the people or for those running it. Amid the fervor of daily scandal seeping from the White House— Bob Woodward’s Fear and an anonymous New York Times op-ed being the latest catalysts—it’s easy to overlook how President Trump and his team make for an unusually conflicted bunch.
<snip>
Investigations surrounding the Trump team have led to indictments of more than 30 people
<snip>
The inventory of current problems includes cabinet members awash in ethics violations and business conflicts, potentially criminal acts by congressional supporters, and lying by aides and advisers.
<snip>
Trump’s portfolio is a mass of ethical fault lines. His foreign policy inevitably intersects with his enterprises in places such as Dubai, Indonesia, and India....he signed a large federal tax cut with provisions that kept tax payments low for real estate developers like him. He also owes more than $300 million to Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG—financial-services companies regulated by his administration. - Bloomberg
