Donald Trump lies all the time. I know, I know. Stop the presses. Or whatever the digital equivalent is... Shut down the servers? Anyway, Donald Trump has found ways to lie about pretty much everything. Remember the bizarre insistence that his inauguration crowd was the biggest in history, even though by literally EVERY metric it was dwarfed by Obama's? Or that time he claimed his electoral-college victory was the biggest win since Reagan—only that wasn't even slightly true as both Obama wins, both Clinton wins, and George H. W. Bush's win were all bigger. (If you're keeping track at home, that means five of the past seven electoral-college wins were bigger than Trump's.)

So it should hardly come as a surprise that the pathological liar-in-chief continues to lie, but this newest one isn't something small and silly. Trump rode a wave of anger and discontent with Washington (and racist feelings toward minorities) to the White House, and one of his most persuasive and consistent arguments was that Washington was corrupt and that he, an outsider, would go to town and "drain the swamp." This was always an odd message coming from one of the most corrupt businessmen in the country, but that was his claim. Well, we're a few months in now, and guess what? D.C. is swampier than ever.

Yes, despite signing an executive order designed to limit lobbyists' role in government, according to Vox, Trump has done little to push them out of town. Instead he's just made exceptions to his "rules." Lots and lots of exceptions.

After extensive back and forth with congressional Democrats and the Office of Government Ethics, Trump has finally provided documentation, and it shows that the ethics rules are plainly meaningless. He’s granted five times as many waivers in his first four months in office as Obama did, which cover key figures in the administration like Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Steve Bannon, and counselor Kellyanne Conway.

So not only is Trump putting us in a terrible position internationally and sullying the White House with his constant scandals, including likely impeachable offenses, but he's also just making the day-to-day work of D.C. even more amenable to corruption. The swamp isn't going anywhere as long as Donald J. Trump is running things.

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