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Opinion: Trumpism is rotten to its core. And the stench of corruption and failure is everywhere.
I wish they'd stop beating around the bush and tell us what they really think.
The Plum Line Opinion
Trumpism is rotten to its core. And the stench of corruption and failure is everywhere.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
November 30 at 10:25 AM
What is this thing called “Trumpism”? As elusive as it is to define, all the big events driving our politics since the midterm elections are converging on the inescapable conclusion that it is rotten to its core with corruption and failure. And the stink of this rot is everywhere. ... The news that President Trump’s former lawyer lied to Congress about a major real estate deal Trump pursued in Russia while campaigning for president — along with other developments involving Trump’s tariffs, crackdown on migrants, and response to the murder of a Saudi dissident — provides an opening for a new forensic examination of the foundations of this moment.
A new Post piece offers an arresting summary of Trump’s current travails. Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen has now revealed that Trump’s company pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow through June 2016 — while GOP primary voters were choosing their nominee for president — which Trump concealed. ... Meanwhile, the special counsel is scrutinizing phone calls between Trump and longtime adviser Roger Stone to determine whether Stone communicated advance knowledge he allegedly possessed of a WikiLeaks operation carrying out Russia’s sabotage of our election on Trump’s behalf.
The Post weaves these strands together this way: “Investigators have evidence that Trump was in close contact with his lieutenants as they made outreach to both Russia and WikiLeaks — and that they tried to conceal the extent of their activities.” ... The precise nature of all these contacts probably won’t, by itself, bring down Trump. But they provide a new glimpse into just how corrupted his ascension to the presidency really was. He repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and called for better relations with Russia — positions presented as good-faith proposals in the national interest — while pursuing a lucrative deal that required Kremlin approval.
The revelations also suggest with fresh urgency that Trump may have been compromised. Former deputy solicitor general Neal Katyal told Chris Hayes that by concealing business dealings with Russia, Trump left himself vulnerable to blackmail. “The Russians have known that Trump lied to the American people for two years,” Katyal said, which they could have used against Trump to “get their bidding done.”
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
Trumpism is rotten to its core. And the stench of corruption and failure is everywhere.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
November 30 at 10:25 AM
What is this thing called “Trumpism”? As elusive as it is to define, all the big events driving our politics since the midterm elections are converging on the inescapable conclusion that it is rotten to its core with corruption and failure. And the stink of this rot is everywhere. ... The news that President Trump’s former lawyer lied to Congress about a major real estate deal Trump pursued in Russia while campaigning for president — along with other developments involving Trump’s tariffs, crackdown on migrants, and response to the murder of a Saudi dissident — provides an opening for a new forensic examination of the foundations of this moment.
A new Post piece offers an arresting summary of Trump’s current travails. Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen has now revealed that Trump’s company pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow through June 2016 — while GOP primary voters were choosing their nominee for president — which Trump concealed. ... Meanwhile, the special counsel is scrutinizing phone calls between Trump and longtime adviser Roger Stone to determine whether Stone communicated advance knowledge he allegedly possessed of a WikiLeaks operation carrying out Russia’s sabotage of our election on Trump’s behalf.
The Post weaves these strands together this way: “Investigators have evidence that Trump was in close contact with his lieutenants as they made outreach to both Russia and WikiLeaks — and that they tried to conceal the extent of their activities.” ... The precise nature of all these contacts probably won’t, by itself, bring down Trump. But they provide a new glimpse into just how corrupted his ascension to the presidency really was. He repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and called for better relations with Russia — positions presented as good-faith proposals in the national interest — while pursuing a lucrative deal that required Kremlin approval.
The revelations also suggest with fresh urgency that Trump may have been compromised. Former deputy solicitor general Neal Katyal told Chris Hayes that by concealing business dealings with Russia, Trump left himself vulnerable to blackmail. “The Russians have known that Trump lied to the American people for two years,” Katyal said, which they could have used against Trump to “get their bidding done.”
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
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