The sense that where Trump and his foes are concerned, the Washington establishment (a.k.a. “the Swamp”) follows very different rulebooks
While his opponents wonder anew at Trump’s Teflon-like ability to shake off scandal and defeat, there is one very good reason for it: the sense that where Trump and his foes are concerned, the Washington establishment (a.k.a. “the Swamp”) follows very different rulebooks.
That sense was reinforced last week as two IRS whistleblowers alleged swampy behavior of the worst kind, testifying that the Justice Department slow-walked investigations into the Bidens’ dealings with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.
Those dealings have always emitted a certain whiff. With no discernible credentials other than being the prodigal son of the vice president, Hunter Biden’s lucrative sinecure on the board of Burisma seemed — at best — extraordinarily providential.
When Joe Biden told a think tank in 2018 that as VP, he’d leaned on Kyiv to fire an allegedly corrupt prosecutor — who just happened to be sniffing around Burisma in an attempt to root out corruption — the pong level increased.
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