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Trump Corruption Index
This Week in Trumpland Corruption: Tectonic Grifts
From trying to secure a lesser sentence for Roger Stone to Michael Flynn’s freedom, this was a standout week
Is there enough graft, double-dealing, and self-interested chicanery in the Trump administration to publish this column every week? Only time — and Trump — will tell. (But we feel pretty confident.) Introducing the Trump Corruption Index.
The Hill’s big shill
Politico reports that after Jimmy Finkelstein, the owner of the political news site The Hill, helped land his wife a gig advising Melania Trump from August 2017 to February 2018, his publication’s readers were never told of the conflict of interest in any of of the several dozen articles published about the first lady during that time span.
- Corrupt-o-meter (out of a possible 5 emojis): 🗞️🤝
Sky-high grift
A charter airline that has won enormous contracts with ICE and the DOD and whose parent company’s PAC gives nearly exclusively to Republicans got a $67 million bailout in the coronavirus relief package, according to a Yahoo News investigation.
- Corrupt-o-meter: ✈️💰💸
