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Trump Swamp: Interior Sec. Calls Corporations He Regulates ‘My Clients… My Former Clients’

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May 16, 2019 5:34 p.m.

The American Prospect’s David Dayen late last week noted what he called President Donald Trump’s “most nakedly corrupt tweet”: an appeal to Congress to reject a bill giving tribal sovereignty over 321 Interior-Department-controlled acres to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts. Or as the President described it, “a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren.”

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