https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html
Today, special council Robert Muller revealed that former Trump aide George Papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to the FBI, possibly implicating the President in Russian efforts to influence the US election.
These claims have dogged the Trump administration since before inauguration day, and, now that the results of the special investigation are coming out, they might cause real consequences for the administration.
The fact that these millionaires quite probably used their wealth to influence the US election, while not surprising, is deeply disappointing, and only adds to my, and the nation's, growing distrust in our government.
A similar situation happened with the corrupt bargain of 1824, where Henry Clay struck a deal with John Quincy Adams to get Adams elected president. At least, in that situation, no one was consulting with a foreign government to disrupt the stability of the Union.
All I know is, with all of these changes and cracks beginning to show in our democracy, another shoe has got to drop eventually.
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