Swamp Creatures Find Home in Rump's D.C.

The fact that neo-fascist narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump lied constantly and brazenly during his ugly campaign while making outrageous promises is no secret. What's surprising is that he's so openly disdainful of his deplorable, rage-fueled cult followers that he's ostentatiously backing off of some of those promises. Witness self-important bloviator Newt "Poot" Gingrich's comment this morning on NPR:

"I'm told he [Trump] now just disclaims that [line about draining the swamp]. He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore. ... I'd written what I thought was a very cute tweet about 'the alligators are complaining,' and somebody wrote back and said they were tired of hearing this stuff. ..."

Poot was one of those washed-up hacks that soaked up the deflected orange glow at Rump's Nuremberg rallies, along with despicable Rudi "Noun Verb 9-11" Giuliani, and bridge traffic monitor Chris "Krispykreme" Christie, none of whom landed a job with Rump. However, someone who may do very nicely in the swamp that Rump will stock with various reptiles is his former campaign manager / CNN "surrogate"/  batterer of females Cory Lewandowski. He's started a "political consulting" firm in D.C., allegedly to advance Rump's agenda and most certainly to line his pockets as a lobbyist / access peddler.  Now, the only thing this newest inhabitant of the DC swamp has to worry about is getting eaten by larger, smarter predators in the swamp. It's only a matter of time.

BONUS: Yep.

Campaign manager -> CNN ‘surrogate' -> lobbyist/ access entrepreneur.

Story of the undrained swamp in one press release. https://t.co/Pa4Adk3iyL

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) December 21, 2016