Trump White House celebrates 1,000th day with stunning corruption admission

Woohoo!

Mick Mulvaney.
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President Trump and his allies marked the 1,000th day of his administration by escalating their broad daylight assault on American law and decency. In an extraordinarily bananas press conference, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced that next year's G7 meeting would be held at the Trump Doral Resort in Florida and then admitted to extorting the government of Ukraine for 2020 campaign help — the very allegation that led to the House's impeachment inquiry.

These outrages were not unrelated, as the president continues to push against the outer boundaries of what might be tolerated by his congressional apologists. The G7 bombshell was dropped almost the moment the press conference began, and we should linger for a minute on the insane logic that Mulvaney used to justify this "decision." He claimed that the administration sent out teams to scout 10 different potential locations, but after visiting the Trump Doral, they returned to Mulvaney and said, "Mick, you're not going to believe this, but it's almost like they built this facility to host this type of event."

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David Faris

David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week.