Opinion: Here’s the Democratic answer to Trump’s corruption and plutocracy
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 8 at 10:44 AM In a way, it’s fitting that we’re learning of Paul Manafort’s lenient sentence just as House Democrats have voted on and passed H.R. 1, a sprawling anti-corruption, pro-democracy piece of legislation that constitutes an ambitious and comprehensive Democratic blueprint for draining the swamp in the Trump era.
Manafort is going to prison, but his light sentence might not do much to disabuse him of that notion. In this sense, Manafort stands as a reminder that the Trump presidency, in so many ways, reflects a much larger crisis of elite corruption and impunity. We have learned from Trump’s longtime former lawyer Michael Cohen that his tax returns may contain the clues to extensive financial fraud, including gaming assets for insurance and tax avoidance purposes. Cohen also told us that Trump’s tax returns might illuminate how extensive tax fraud vastly inflated the size of Trump’s inherited fortune.
There is no legal requirement that a presidential candidate release his tax returns. Major candidates have done so for decades because they recognize an obligation to the public. Trump wiped his shoes on this obligation, and thus has exploited the lack of any such requirement to get elected and then to enrich himself with his office.
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