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What is this thing called “Trumpism”? As elusive as it is to define, all the big events driving our politics since the midterm elections are converging on the inescapable conclusion that it is rotten to its core with corruption and failure. And the stink of this rot is everywhere.
The https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/individual-1-trump-emerges-as-a-central-subject-of-mueller-probe/2018/11/29/e3968994-f3f7-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?utm_term=.9eb8becd3cd2 (news that President Trump’s former lawyer lied) to Congress about a major real estate deal Trump pursued in Russia while campaigning for president — along with other developments involving Trump’s tariffs, crackdown on migrants, and response to the murder of a Saudi dissident — provides an opening for a new forensic examination of the foundations of this moment.
A https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/individual-1-trump-emerges-as-a-central-subject-of-mueller-probe/2018/11/29/e3968994-f3f7-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?utm_term=.49c3c7814a92 (new Post piece offers an arresting summary) of Trump’s current travails. Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen has now revealed that Trump’s company pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow through June 2016 — while GOP primary voters were choosing their nominee for president — which Trump concealed.
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Recent events provide an opening for a reexamination of these foundational aspects of Trumpism. Thanks to the new revelations, we’re beginning to glimpse just how deeply corrupted Trump’s ascendancy was — how deep the self-dealing really ran. And there may be a lot more to come on this front, since we don’t know what else Cohen will tell the special counsel or what else the special counsel’s investigators have learned.
Meanwhile, as president, Trump has only ratcheted up the self-enrichment: He won’t release his tax returns while continuing to use the presidency to shovel money into his pockets in multiple ways. He continues to undermine law enforcement to protect himself from accountability. Both of those are enabled by the GOP. As Will Wilkinson notes, Trump did identify weaknesses in our “corrupt” system, but he’s now exploiting them to his own corrupt ends.
Ziblatt points out to me that the notion that a ruler’s corruption “works” for his followers is often tacitly understood by them as a justification for it to continue — and that Trump is very much in this mold. It’s the bargain they’ve made.
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The big story of the moment is that the foundations of Trumpism are rotten with corruption and failure. Their stench is everywhere.
Imagine for a moment that President Trump is right when he claims there is, in fact, no Russia scandal — because the entire thing is a hoax, a fraud, a witch hunt — and that neither he nor any of his family members, employees, or associates did anything wrong.
If that were the case, how would they all have conducted themselves as this controversy has gone on?
There’s one thing we should all be able to agree on: If they were all innocent, they would be telling the truth about what they did and didn’t do. That’s because the truth would exonerate them. What has happened, instead, is that one person after another, from the president on down, has lied about their actions, their contacts with Russia and the decisions they made.
In short, they’re acting like the guiltiest bunch of people since Richard M. Nixon’s Committee to Reelect the President.
A lie isn’t always a crime, but it is always an indication that the person telling it has something they want to conceal. So let’s run down a list of those around the president who have lied, dissembled, concealed and misled about what they did with regard to Russia. To be clear, this will not include the many lies these people told about matters having to do with other topics:
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For all we know, there may be more names added to this list by the time the full scope of the scandal is revealed. What we can say for sure is that the president, his family members, his employees and his associates are acting as though they’re not just guilty, but spectacularly guilty. To think otherwise, you’d have to be willfully blind.
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