President Donald Trump once promised to “drain the swamp” — a metaphor for cleansing Washington, D.C., of corruption. Instead, the Justice Department is being drained of corruption fighters amid evidence of malfeasance in his own administration.

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys working full-time on corruption cases when Trump returned to office in January. “Today it has two,” said NOTUS . The lawyers who worked for the department’s Public Integrity Section have “either quit under pressure, resigned in protest or been detailed to other matters across the nation.” The loss of personnel “screams that public corruption cases are no longer a priority” under Trump, said former prosecutor Andrew Tessman.

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The news comes amid reports that Trump border cz

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