Thread by @RobertMaguire_

The Drain the Swamp president is anything but... nyti.ms/3nC8P3e

This single paragraph -- showing the president selling access and influence to wealthy donors who are also personally enriching him -- would be the defining scandal of any other presidential administration

Then: "Elliot Broidy, a California businessman with a checkered past who had raised millions for the Trump campaign, joined Mar-a-Lago after the election. He told an associate that he viewed it as a way to increase access to the president."

This week: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

What's more swampy than an Australian billionaire with major U.S. business interests bragging about the personal access he gets with the president of the United States as a perk of being a paying customer at his Palm Beach resort?

Nothing swampy about the founder of a private prison company referencing the "transactional" nature of the administration and saying it helped to be seen patronizing the luxury DC hotel the president profited from

....or the fact that it appears to have paid off