Accountability is coming: Trump aides face looming congressional probes

The constant stream of crazy news stories coming out of the Trump administration is a bowl full of distractions, until a glance under the chaos reveals crass corruption.

Sixty percent of voters now rank “government corruption,” as their top concern, according to a Fox News poll released last week. Corruption is a bigger issue than inflation or gas prices, with the midterm elections just days away. Exposure of the corruption will go beyond Election Day.

Congressional investigators will soon be asking how a Trump ambassador with access to national security information was revealed to have sent a “Honey Please,” demand for money to a Trump donor.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ambassador to Greece, resigned after reports that she allegedly solicited $100,000 from the businessman to pay her personal credit card bill ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Any ambassador with undisclosed financial obligations, as well as reported ties to dealmakers looking to profit from American investments overseas, is vulnerable to blackmail and extortion.

Congressional investigators, Republican or Democrat, might also ask how a former TV host and former girlfriend to the president’s son, with no diplomatic experience, became an ambassador. 

Government prosecutors have largely failed to hold Trump accountable for multiple charges of misconduct.

But as Trump’s time in office expires, the people around him responsible for reckless and self-serving actions cannot assume they will have the same power to stay out of jail.

There will be a particularly hot congressional spotlight on several aides now representing Trump overseas. Did they mix the nation’s global affairs and even the use of the American military with their personal business?

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