The State of the Swamp

SHARYL ATTKISSON .com ^ | January 20, 2020 | BY SHARYL ATTKISSON

[Hojczyk]

Sharyl: Do you feel like you’ve fallen into the system? This was something you strongly objected to and criticized when we last spoke, now it sounds like you’re operating quite well inside the system.

Rep. Ken Buck: Yeah, I still object to it.

Larry Klayman is also a former federal prosecutor and longtime swamp-watcher. He head up Freedom Watch, a public interest group that investigates government corruption.

Sharyl: What would you tell the public, is the state of what we may think of as the Washington DC swamp, today?

Larry Klayman: It’s a club, it’s like the National Football League. You have the American Conference and you have the National Conference, but they’re all part of the same conference, the same league. They protect each other because they’re making a tremendous amount of money, they’re acquiring great power.

Sharyl: I’ve heard that from a lot of people President Trump came into office promising to “drain the swamp.” Has he had success or has the swamp gotten the better of him?

Larry Klayman: The swamp has been trying to swallow him up. No, he has not had success and I commend him for trying to do that. What I like about the president is he will say what’s on his mind. You may not always like what he says, but he doesn’t pull any punches, and that’s quite rare.

The problem is, is that around him are people who want to take him down, even in the White House. The poor guy’s been fighting for his survival now for going on three years. So, there’s a lot of things he’s tried to do about cleaning up the swamp, but it seems that the swamp has got him more than he’s got the swamp.

[Hojczyk]

http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/state-of-the-swamp

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[kiryandil]

Thanks. Sharyl is one of the few credible voices in journalism these days.

[kiryandil]

Thanks. Sharyl is one of the few credible voices in journalism these days.

[SteveH]

if they’re not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.

[SaxxonWoods]

Very sobering article...

[kiryandil]

Klayman: "...I don't think it [the Biden investigation ask] was impeachable, I don't think he committed a crime, but he handed them, the Democrats, a gift."

This is for the consumption of people who don't understand Swamp kabuki theater.

There was ALWAYS going to be a next "impeachable scandal". Klayman is posturing for the know-nothings here.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sharyl: Do you feel like you personally have been able to make any sort of difference in terms of the swamp, as we know it, here in Washington DC?

Rep. Ken Buck: No.

[FreeReign]

The problem is, is that around him are people who want to take him down, even in the White House. The poor guy’s been fighting for his survival now for going on three years. So, there’s a lot of things he’s tried to do about cleaning up the swamp, but it seems that the swamp has got him more than he’s got the swamp.

Trump has said that the swamp is much deep than he thought.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

“Trump has said that the swamp is much deep than he thought.”

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But, thanks to Trump’s efforts, many people now realize same so that the effort needed to drain it can be better appreciated and planned.

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