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There Is Only One Trump Scandal

The myriad Trump scandals can obscure the fact that they’re all elements of one massive tale of corruption.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

The sheer volume of Trump scandals can seem difficult to keep track of.

There’s the ongoing special-counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there’s the associated inquiry into whether the when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national-security adviser; there are the president’s with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and ; there is his ongoing effort to; there are the as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there’s the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, , which may have affected Trump’s foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president’s Cabinet officials’ ; there is the, in particular those in which .

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