As the year comes to a close, here are some of my favorite Trump administration corruption stories reported in 2018 that don't involve expensive doors and tables, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, or Russia.
Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, while leading a coup of the CFPB, told a bunch of bankers that when he was a Congressman, he sold lobbyists access to his office. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The biggest GOP donor, Sheldon Adelson, told disgraced EPA Chief Scott Pruitt to meet with some friends of his, and he did--and gave them a contract. Adelson's wife Miriam, of course, also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. wsj.com/articles/sheld…
The Trump Foundation looked at rules governing nonprofits and said: let's break all of them. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
The Trump family's personal investments continue to raise questions about policy decisions. huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-wa…
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry fired a staff photographer for leaking photos of him hugging a major energy industry donor, as the administration was ticking off that donor's to-do list. nytimes.com/2018/01/17/bus… nytimes.com/2018/01/09/cli…
Four members of Mar-a-Lago, the president's private club, have been nominated to ambassadorships. businessinsider.com/trump-nominate…
Also, Mar-a-Lago members seem to be writing VA policy? politico.com/story/2018/11/…
Trump's @GOP made it the entire year without returning any donations from their former finance chairman Steve Wynn, who was forced to step down from the company he founded after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. wsj.com/articles/dozen… 
Republican candidates and committees can't stop lining their boy's pockets. opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/r…
Foreign governments keep holding events at Trump properties, while the Trump Organization refuses to provide details on how many countries are spending money at their properties or exactly how much money they're making off them. washingtonpost.com/politics/roman…
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross may have stolen, uh, $120 million from people over the years. Also, he can't get his financial disclosures right. publicintegrity.org/federal-politi… keeps forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
The list goes on, and on, and on. I'm sorry if I have forgotten your favorite one, but I'm gonna eat lunch now.
