The American Prospect has done a massive investigation into the Trump administration’s dodgy practices:
In three years as president, he has transformed the executive branch into a giant favor factory, populated with the agents or willing partners of virtually every special interest. Add up all the routine, daily outrages—the quasi-bribery and quasi-extortion, the private raids on public funds, the handouts to the undeserving, the massive flow of cash, jobs, and freebies back in return—and Trump’s attempt to squeeze a little re-election help out of the fragile government of a desperate Eastern European country does not loom particularly large in the reckoning.
Just a start:
- Treasury Department: Steve Mnuchin overruled IRS lawyers to block disclosure of Trump tax returns.
- Commerce Department: The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Wilbur Ross with pocketing $10.4 million that rightly belonged to investment partners.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was a pharma lobbyist and later a top executive and president of the multinational drug company Eli Lilly.
Thank you to The American Prospect
