Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich
Update: 2025-05-03
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The Washington Roundtable discusses the unprecedented corruption of the federal government, including Trump Administration members’ self-enrichment through cryptocurrency schemes and the inaugural committee, and the gutting of parts of the government that are responsible for rooting out self-dealing from public life. It is a level of corruption so “outright” and “brazen,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says, that it constitutes “a new phase in American politics.”
This week’s reading:
- “Mike Waltz Learns the Hard Truth About Serving Donald Trump,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “How Donald Trump Is Expanding His Authority While Shrinking the Government,” by Jon Allsop
- “What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t,” by Adam Gopnik
- “Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now ‘Ghosts’ in U.S. Courts,” by Jonathan Blitzer
- “Will the Trump Tariffs Devastate the Whiskey Industry?,” by Charles Bethea
- “A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration,” by Dhruv Khullar
- “The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump,” by Grace Byron
- “How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic,” by Jane Mayer (July, 2020)
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