Nearly four years after Donald Trump moved into the White House, there are a number of things we’ve come to expect from the administration, whose incompetence, chaos, and self-dealing is actually quite predictable. We can expect that the president will spend a significant portion of his day tweeting incomprehensible attacks on people deemed disloyal. We can expect that Stephen Miller will actively hatch unique ways to make immigrants’ lives hell. And we can expect that, given the opportunity, Trump and his children will do everything they can to profit off the presidency, no matter how transparently shady and corrupt.


“Many months and broken promises later, the court-ordered release of this crucial data while the Trump administration is one foot out the door is a shameful dereliction of duty and flagrant mismanagement of a program that millions of workers and small businesses needed to get through this pandemic,” Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US, an accountability watchdog, said in a statement. But Trump and Kushner got their money so, six of one, half a dozen of the other.

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