Key Trump campaign promise is now the 'punchline to a sad joke': analysis

With President Donald Trump’s massive corruption pulling down billions of dollars for himself and his family, MS NOW producer Steve Benen says it’s easy to forget that Trump originally campaigned on “draining the swamp.”“As laughable as it might seem in hindsight, Donald Trump told voters that he saw the political establishment as a corrupt cesspool that he’d clean up in ruthless fashion,” Benen said. “...

A decade later, amid frequent allegations of White House corruption and reports that the president is profiting from his office in unprecedented ways, that vow has become the punch line to a sad joke.

And it’s striking to see the problem spreading in systemic ways as the first year of the Republican’s second term comes to an end.”The New York Times released a recent report on nearly $2 b...