Trump Corruption Index

The Swamp Goes Postal: This Week in Trumpland Corruption

From Susan Pompeo’s taxpayer-funded escapades to the unraveling Postal Service, it was another week filled with self-dealing

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.

Mailing it in

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced in a memo on Friday that he was overhauling the U.S. Postal Service, reassigning the top two agency executives responsible for day-to-day operations, along with 23 other postal executives. The shake-up ensures that DeJoy, a former Trump donor who also owned tens of millions in assets in USPS competitors or contractors, will amass even more power within the USPS and threatens to undermine its ability to function during an election-season pandemic. Indeed, ethics watchdogs are worried that Trump is crippling the agency to justify his (false) arguments against mail-in voting. Rep. Gerald Connolly, chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, said in a tweet that DeJoy’s restructuring was “deliberate…