[Reverend Wright]

https://redstate.com/diary/barrypopik/2010/07/29/origin-and-history-of-drain-the-swamp-mother-jones-reagan-rumsfeld-pelosi-n166501

[dragnet2]

U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in 1983, looked back on a year in office and reminded himself that ‘’you’re here to drain the swamp’’ of big government.

Big government? I was talking about the claim Reagan used the term swamp to refer to widespread government corruption, at the highest levels, which Trump has talked about 400 times now.

[dragnet2]

I think the mistake here is some assume Reagan used the term “swamp” to describe high treason in government when he did not.

Reagans use of the word swamp was in regards to taxes, mismanagement, overregulation etc...