Opinion: The case against Trump’s corruption will continue to build
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 27 at 10:15 AM One glaring analytical error we’re seeing in the coverage of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings is the idea that we’re suddenly in a “post-Mueller” political world. The suggestion is that there’s been a sudden, clean break from a rapidly receding past in which the special counsel’s activity threatened President Trump, to a new future in which it does not.
Warren has just introduced in the Senate a sweeping measure called the Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act, which requires the president, vice president and their close family members to divest in all financial interests that create conflicts of interest and place them in a blind trust. Instead, as president, he has personally blazed new trails of elite corruption with nonstop self-enrichment off the presidency, while handing the plutocrats a deregulation spree that further rigged the economy in their interests, and a massive corporate tax cut they helped him sell by actively feeding the illusion that it was pro-worker.
Warren’s proposal to require the president to divest — which she has introduced before and is now introducing for the first time in the new Congress — adds yet another dimension to her evolving agenda, one focused on Trump’s particular abuses and on how to prevent them from happening again.Trump’s corruption provides a natural focal point for Democrats going forward after the conclusion of the Mueller investigation.
All that has led to a plethora of other investigations into multiple Trump organizations, which largely grew out of the Mueller investigation. Some of what we learned has created new avenues of inquiry for House Democrats, who are looking into everything from Trump’s role in the hush-money scheme, to whether Trump’s lawyers coached Cohen to lie to Congress about his Moscow project, to his financial entanglements with Russia.
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