Update | The Week of November 27, 2017
Jeffrey Stein // 12/3/17 //
Though President Trump continues to deny it, the tax bill would certainly benefit him personally (NYT).
The Administration’s handling of the CFPB constitute President Trump’s “swampiest move yet,” writes Dana Milbank in The Washington Post.
- This is just the beginning of the political fights surrounding the agency, writes Lorraine Woellert at Politico.
Special Counsel Robert Muller is looking into Michael Flynn’s role in a film financed by Turkish interests, and this investigation could implicate many other Trump Administration confidants and officials (WaPo).
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is not a general bar against profiting from foreign illegal activity, writes Matthew Stephenson at The Global Anticorruption Blog.