The Trump Scandals That Have Slipped by Congress
The allegations at the center of Robert Mueller’s just-completed investigation, electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and obstruction of justice, were rightly considered the biggest presidential scandal in a generation, and perhaps in all of United States history.
They were also, for the purposes of congressional oversight, a monumental distraction.
Consider the following: The president promotes his corporate brands regularly and in plain sight, while a hotel he owns mere blocks from the White House from patrons including , with business before the federal government. Cabinet secretaries reportedly violate ethical guidelines and conflict-of-interest rules by and , or by failing to properly divest . The president’s son-in-law over the objections of senior officials, and then—along with other top White House aides—conducts using personal, unsecured devices and accounts. The president himself refuses to relinquish , raising concerns that he is having conversations
