TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX
This Week in Trumpland Corruption: Law and Disorder
Trump’s using campaign donations to fund his legal expenses, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s old company is cashing in on new Postal Service contracts
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.
Trump’s campaign-funded legal fund
President Trump has used campaign donations to fund at least $58.4 million in legal expenses since 2015, according to a blistering investigation published last week by the New York Times. That includes $1.5 million to a team of lawyers in New York to seek damages against a former campaign staffer who claimed she had been sexually harassed by another worker, $2.5 million to lawyers in Washington who worked with the president and his staff during investigations around Ukraine and Russia, and $1.8 million to a firm that sued to block a California law from forcing him to release his taxes if he ran for reelection. “An examination of spending by his various campaign arms…
