TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX

This Week in Trumpland Corruption: The Lies Have It

This week we saw Trump continue to cast doubts over the election results, plus an effort by the CDC to quietly correct a guidance on sending kids to school

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 is putting himself over national security

The Trump administration has continued to stonewall the incoming Biden administration — and even Republicans are concerned. As Politico reported this week, President Trump has yet to call President-elect Biden, the White House has yet to brief the Biden transition team on Covid-19 or troop withdrawals, and there have so far been no security clearances issued to prospective Biden staff members. “The bottom line is our adversaries look at a transition period as a moment of potential weakness which they will exploit if possible,” said Michael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under Bush. Chertoff knows this better than anyone: The 9/11…