Jim Lardner has written a very well-researched article at prospect.org, mapping the corruption of the trump administration.
ttps://prospect.org/power/mapping-corruption-donald-trump-executive-branch/
Lardner makes it clear that the Republican Party is responsible for trump and the trumpery in this adminstration. Lardner runs down the list of agencies that have succumbed to corruption that is trump.
THE DEFENSE GOT ONE THING RIGHT at Donald Trump’s Senate trial. The case against him was thin, his team kept saying; and so it was, compared to the enormity of this administration’s other offenses.
Set aside the hate-mongering and the stream of conspiracy theories and demagogic bombast. Trump has sowed corruption of a breadth and brazenness unseen in the far-from-innocent annals of our nation’s history. 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.
We really don’t even have to dwell on the Ivanka, Don, Jr., Kushner, Other trumpkins, sitting around sucking on the public teat to realize the enormity of the criminal conspiracy that is the trump administration. We don’t have to mention the $243,000 flight by the acting Secretary of the Navy to discharge the Captain of the USS Eisenhower before he resigned to be replaced by another unknown individual. Trump has discharged 7 Inspector Generals of various agencies in the past week whose charge was to investigate the trump corrupton in their respective agencies. It’s almost enough to make Moscow Mitch blush with embarrassment — almost, but not quite.
How much money has the Secret Service spent to entertain trump at trump’s golf courses and hotels? Trump has spent one-third of his time since Republican Selectors and Vladimir Putin selected him as president, after he lost the election by 3 million votes, at trump’s own properties. Trump has never provided any tax returns or financial statements for an independent accounting and trump directed the Secretary of the Treasury to resist subpoenas for all documents by Congressional oversight committees. As Lardner states:
But the personal corruption of the Trumps themselves perversely masks the sliminess perpetrated by literally thousands of presidential appointees, from Cabinet officials to obscure functionaries. Amid all the distractions, it’s hard to focus on the more consequential crookedness and follow out the plotlines of all the sordid stories, and grasp the brutal consequences visited upon countless people. We lunge from scandal to scandal without ever filling in the bigger picture, or taking proper account of all the knaves, thieves, and corporate stooges and their handiwork.
Lardner provides an interactive exercise to map the corruption that is trump’s administration:
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Lardner lays out the corruption in each of the following Departments:
Agriculture Department
Commerce Department
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Education Department
Energy Department
Environmental Protection Agency
Health and Human Services Department
Homeland Security Department
Housing and Urban Development
Interior Department
Justice Department
Labor Department
State Department
Sale of Government Jobs — Ambassadorships,
Transportation Department
Treasury Department
Republican Trumpery
The Scope of Republican trumpery is simply incredible. Consider just the issue of Immigration. The two big giants of Corporate Imprisonment are GEO and CoreCivic. With the increased number of immigrants held by Homeland Security and ICE, trump has provided these two big corporate supporters more than $2.9 Billion dollars in funds to hold immigration detatinees.
Review the Dossiers! Browse the Map of Corruption
Lardner goes through the tales of Steven Mnuchin, Betsy Devos, Ben Carson and all of well known characters then goes into further details of lesser known characters, saying,
The personal corruption of the Trumps themselves perversely masks the sliminess perpetrated by literally thousands of presidential appointees.
The scope of Lardner’s article and map of corruption is breath taking.
The question is how can anyone continue to still be a Republican in this age of trumpery?