Robert Reich on why Trump's slush fund was a bridge too far – Stateside with Kai and Carter

This week nan bipartisan furor complete Donald Trump’s $1.8bn slush money escalated to nan constituent that nan management balked, saying they are nary longer moving guardant pinch it. But Robert Reich, a Guardian columnist and erstwhile US caput of labor, says nan fund, and specifically, nan further item of nan colony giving Trump and his family immunity from early IRS audits, are nan principle of corruption – and if Democrats tin successfully link that corruption to nan affordability crisis, they mightiness conscionable person a winning connection connected their hands.

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