TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX

This Week in Trumpland Corruption: Unpresidented Behavior

The president’s attempted coup hit a few snags, plus shady consulting fees in the Trump Organization

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 fall from gracelessness

It’s hard to overstate just how gracelessly — and dangerously — Donald Trump has behaved since losing the presidential election to Joe Biden. Just in the last week, the president fired the federal election official who had challenged his bogus charges of fraud, tried to block Michigan from certifying the election results (an effort that appears to have finally failed), and has promoted baseless accusations about a left-wing plot to steal the election. A growing number of Republicans — including former members of the Trump administration — are now calling on Trump to admit defeat. Speaking on ABC’s The Week, former National Security Adviser John Bolton sarcastically mused, “Their basic argument is this was a conspiracy so vast and so successful that there’s…