Trump’s pardons sent an unmistakable message, capping the corruption of his tenure in office.“Drain the swamp.” Of all Trump’s lies, that was one of the most puzzling. It’s not just that Trump himself was and is crooked, or even that he so obviously likes and admires crooks. It’s that Trump’s particular form of crookedness was exactly the kind of crookedness that people have in mind when they imagine Washington, D.C., as a “swamp.”And on his last full day in office, as the minutes ticked down, he ended his presidency with a grand present to pro-Trump crooks, past and present."
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.theatlantic.com
At www.theatlantic.com
