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TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX
The Art of the Steal: This Week in Trumpland Corruption
From a series of shady payments between the Trump campaign and the Trump Organization to potential PPP impropriety by Stephen Miller’s parents, it was another wild 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.) Presenting this week’s installment of the Trump Corruption Index.
Cohen Gets Booked
Michael Cohen’s lawyers filed a petition this week seeking his immediate release from prison, charging that the Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General William Barr only ordered Cohen—Trump’s former personal attorney, who pled guilty to tax fraud, lying to Congress, and providing hush money payments on Trump’s behalf, and was released from prison on account of the coronavirus threat — back behind bars as retaliation for the tell-all book he’s writing about the decade he spent working for Trump. The president has sought to quash other books by former staffers and relatives, including John Bolton and Mary Trump.
