Steve Russell
14 min readJul 26, 2019

A Progress Report on Draining the Swamp

Recruiting Ground for Trump Cabinet From Pixabay

Readers Should Decide for Themselves How Swampy the Trump Cabinet Is

When an anti-Trump protestor held up a sign proclaiming, “Ikea Makes Smarter Cabinets,” it occurred to me that the White House obsession with “winning” every news cycle in a time of 24/7 news cycles means the factual basis for that sign is very much a moving target.

Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)