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Eight years ago, Trump vowed to ‘drain the swamp.’
Now he swims in it.

Eight years after Trump entered politics promising to reduce the influence of Washington lobbyists
— to “drain the swamp,” as he put it
— advocates for corporate interests,
including companies based in China and other foreign countries denounced by Trump,
now sit at virtually every level of his campaign.

Lobbyists are represented among high-level staff, informal advisers and party faithful who planned the summer convention in Milwaukee,
as people with access to Trump or insight into his at-times erratic decision-making turn that knowledge into moneymaking opportunities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/11/trump-corporate-interests-drain-the-swamp/