People Lost Their Integrity When They Served in the Trump Administration
They risked their integrity, and they lost the bet
Around the time of the 2016 election, I noticed some essays that warned people not to serve in the Trump administration. They’d be risking their own integrity, so went the admonition.
I was never a Trump supporter, but I took a sort of detached curiosity in this topic. It intrigued me in part because it was a prediction about what would happen to those people. All the rest of us would have to do to learn the answer was to wait.
I kept a list of some incidents. Years later, with only three weeks to go until Trump may be voted into office again, it seems it’s finally time to share them. I saved them for this moment. Sometimes we forget what happened until we reminisce.
There were early consequences for Trump admin officials
Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort resigned several months before the November 2016 election over concerns about his connections to Russia. Following the Mueller investigation, he was convicted of federal crimes and would have spent four years in jail if not for the covid pandemic and then Trump’s presidential pardon in December 2020 at the end of his term.
