Post by Daniel on Nov 12, 2017 9:41:15 GMT -5
Newsweek Declares Trump Administration the Most Corrupt in History
by Brian McNicoll on November 8, 2017
A year into his first term, Donald Trump already presides over the most corrupt administration in history, according to a story in Newsweek.
Trump has not “drained the swamp” as he promised on the campaign trail.
Corey Lewandowski, the president’s first campaign manager, came to him from a job with an “access-peddling lobbying firm.” Michael Flynn, his national security adviser for 11 days, had “troubling foreign ties.”
There’s Trump being sued, ludicrously, for violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution because he owns a hotel near the White House. Another former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted on money laundering charges – 10 years before he went to work for Trump.
Moreover, there are six cabinet officials being investigated for exorbitant travel expenses.
All of this was enough for Zephyr Teachout, a radical left law professor at Fordham who wrote a book about the “corruption” involved in the Citizens United court decision, to declare this “the most corrupt presidency and administration we’ve ever had.” And for presidential historian Robert Dallek, another left-far-leaning academic, to declare Trump to be “worse than both Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding, presidents who oversaw the most flagrant instances of graft in American political history.”
more
www.aim.org/aim-column/newsweek-declares-trump-administration-the-most-corrupt-in-history/
by Brian McNicoll on November 8, 2017
A year into his first term, Donald Trump already presides over the most corrupt administration in history, according to a story in Newsweek.
Trump has not “drained the swamp” as he promised on the campaign trail.
Corey Lewandowski, the president’s first campaign manager, came to him from a job with an “access-peddling lobbying firm.” Michael Flynn, his national security adviser for 11 days, had “troubling foreign ties.”
There’s Trump being sued, ludicrously, for violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution because he owns a hotel near the White House. Another former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted on money laundering charges – 10 years before he went to work for Trump.
Moreover, there are six cabinet officials being investigated for exorbitant travel expenses.
All of this was enough for Zephyr Teachout, a radical left law professor at Fordham who wrote a book about the “corruption” involved in the Citizens United court decision, to declare this “the most corrupt presidency and administration we’ve ever had.” And for presidential historian Robert Dallek, another left-far-leaning academic, to declare Trump to be “worse than both Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding, presidents who oversaw the most flagrant instances of graft in American political history.”
more
www.aim.org/aim-column/newsweek-declares-trump-administration-the-most-corrupt-in-history/
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