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05/29/2017 / By JD Heyes

This is why Trump will have so much trouble draining the swamp — and why he must expend every effort to do so

On the campaign trail, then-GOP presidential contender Donald J. Trump pledged often to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., noting that the nation’s capital had become a cesspool of political chicanery while ineptitude, inefficiency and corruption had metastasized throughout the federal bureaucracy. Few Americans realize just how difficult that task is going to be, but […]

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