Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He turned it into a cesspool (opens in new tab)

The president’s second term has been full of donors seeking access, favors for billionaires and apparent conflicts of interestEvery time Donald Trump has run for president, he has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington. But ever since he returned to the White House, not only has he not even tried to drain the swamp, he has pushed to gild it. Trump has used all the gold and glitz he can to cover up an increasingly putrid swamp – a morass filled with million-dollar donors scrambling for access,...