Trump promised to drain the swamp. He’s flooding it

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The Trump administration must get far tougher on corruption and insider trading, and its righteous crackdown on immense Medicare and Medicaid fraud provides a template for action.

Unfortunately, however, the Trump administration is adopting the opposite approach toward insider trading and pay-to-play corruption.

Take Trump’s $1.8 billion shakedown of the IRS. This will provide compensation payments to Trump allies who say that the Biden administration unfairly weaponized the Justice Department against them. Who these individuals actually are, however, is left unclear. Will Jan. 6 rioters receive payments?

Then there’s the insider-trading epidemic and Trump’s pattern of buying stocks in companies that subsequently benefit from his own policy