TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX

The Coronavirus Task Farce: This Week in Trumpland Corruption

This week, the saga of Trump’s tax returns continues, as do allegations of foul play in the White House’s coronavirus task force

Max Ufberg
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3 min readAug 5, 2020

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Photo illustration. Source: State Department

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.

Letting the virus run wild to own the libs

Vanity Fair reported last week that a Kushner-led task force scrapped its coronavirus testing and supply strategy in order to take a political shot at blue-state governors. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said an unnamed public health expert who had been in contact with the task force.

  • Corrupt-o-meter (out of a possible five emojis): 🏥🏥🏥⚕️⚕️

The taxman comes calling

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Max Ufberg
Max Ufberg

Written by Max Ufberg

Writer and editor. Previously at Medium, Pacific Standard, Wired