The Rot Goes All The Way Down
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The Rot Goes All The Way Down
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A partial inventory of the Trump Administration's Ongoing Demolition of Public Life
Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns. The Border Patrol chief solicits prostitutes abroad. Trump sues the IRS he controls. Corey Lewandowski sells federal contracts. This is Washington, D.C.
Let us begin with Lori Chavez-DeRemer, because she is the freshest wound, though in this administration, she is barely a paper cut.
The Labor Secretary — former one-term congresswoman, former mayor of the magnificently named Happy Valley, Oregon — resigned Monday, departing "to take a position in the private sector," which is the Washington formulation for: the inspector general was about to interview her and the walls were closing in like a particularly well-upholstered trash compactor. The White House, with its customary relationship to reality, announced that she had "done a phenomenal job."
This is the same White House that will, when the report drops, have no memory of her whatsoever.
The allegations against Chavez-DeRemer constitute a scandal so baroque it would embarrass a Medici.
An affair with her security detail.
Fabricated official trips to cover personal travel. Fancy hotels, SUV rentals, and meals billed to the public.