Donald Trump Record: "Drain the Swamp"

A brief look into the record of President Donald Trump on his promise to "Drain the Swamp."

Additional Reading Links Below:

“Corporate Donors to Trump Inaugural Revealed” by Megan R. Wilson
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/317591-corporate-donors-to-trump-inaugural-revealed/

“Trump Administration Is Paying Big Pharma Billions in Rush for Vaccine”
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-is-paying-big-pharma-billions-in-rush-for-vaccine/

“Trump to select Scott Gottlieb, a physician with deep drug-industry ties, to run the FDA”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/10/trump-selects-scott-gottlieb-a-physician-with-deep-drug-industry-ties-to-run-the-fda/

“The RNC Foreshadowed A Battle For The Soul Of MAGA” by Pedro Gonzalez
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/01/rnc-battle-soul-maga-after-trump/

“How Trump Abandoned His Pledge to ‘Drain the Swamp’” by Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman and David A. Fahrenthold
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-drain-the-swamp/2020/10/24/52c7682c-0a5a-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html

“How Trump Learned to Love the Swamp” by Michael Grunwald
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/09/donald-trump-drain-the-swamp-reversal-215808/

“How the Swamp Drained Trump” by McKay Coppins
https:12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/swamp-trump/551807/

“Draining the Swamp?” by Charlotte Alter and Ryan Teague Beckwith
https://web.archive.org/web/20170118004454/https://time.com/donald-trump-drain-swamp/

“Just How America First is the America First Policy Institute?” by Pedro Gonzalez
https://www.12ft.io/https://thespectator.com/topic/america-first-policy-institute-daniel-di-martino-maga-afpi-trump/

“Former Trump Officials Are Supposed to Avoid Lobbying. Except 33 Haven’t.” by Derek Kravitz
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-lobbying-swamp-is-flourishing-in-trumps-washington

“It’s Time for Trump Voters to Face the Bitter Truth” by Conor Friedersdorf
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/05/trumps-washington/560105/

“Reince Priebus, Normalizer in Chief” by Mark Leibovich
https://web.archive.org/web/20161121134450/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/magazine/reince-priebus-normalizer-in-chief.html

“Rewarding Enemies, Punishing Friends” by Pedro Gonzales
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/17/rewarding-enemies-punishing-friends/

“Rather Than Drain It, Trump Advisers Opt to Join DC Swamp” by Julie Bykowicz
https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-general-news-events-e2163016c8d04c2998fa5527cdd95601

“Sunday Talks, Bill Barr Continues His Crusade Against Trump in Effort to Protect the Bush-Obama Surveillance State and DOJ-FBI Constructs” by Sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/18/sunday-talks-bill-barr-continues-his-crusade-against-trump-in-effort-to-protect-the-bush-obama-surveillance-state-and-doj-fbi-constructs/

Thanks for your time.