How Corruption Could Lead to Trump’s Undoing

Jonathan Chait: “To be out for yourself is probably the single most disqualifying flaw a politician can have… What’s truly shocking is how much petty graft has sprung up across his administration. Trump’s Cabinet members and other senior officials have been living in style at taxpayer expense.

“Not since the Harding administration, and probably the Gilded Age, has the presidency conducted itself in so venal a fashion… It should take very little work — and be a very big priority — for Democratic candidates to stitch all the administration’s misdeeds together into a tale of unchecked greed.”