All the MAGA claims about “draining the swamp” in Washington have proved empty in this first year of President Donald Trump’s final term. Quite the opposite has occurred. Under an increasingly aggressive executive branch, the swamp has deepened and widened, becoming stocked with new metaphoric crocodiles and mosquitoes.

For the notoriously acquisitive president, and his unquestioning relatives and appointees, disturbing signals of self-dealing have multiplied. The nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington flatly calls Trump “the most corrupt president in American history,” saying his conduct in both of his terms gave no assurance of “putting the national interest over his bottom line.”

Multiple signs of self-dealing are going unaddressed. Nowhere is this clearer th

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