David Ignatius on Trump’s $2B Disclosure: Trump Has Just Blown Through Every Limit that We Thought that We Had as a Country

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IGNATIUS: "Trump has just blown through every limit that we thought that we had as a country. It’s painful to watch it. If you grew up, as I did, in Washington, D.C., and understanding — my dad served in government — that there were certain things you just couldn’t do, they weren’t right, that you this was about public service. I was struck this week by President Trump celebrating Theodore Roosevelt, one of our great presidents, and Roosevelt’s important in our history because he came into a political world that was thoroughly corrupt, offices were for sale in New York, where he lived. Literally, it was run by kind of mob bosses. And Roosevelt got his start as a political reformer by saying, 'We need absolutely strict standards for government employees. We need conflict of interest laws so that people can’t deal on their own behalf, become rich while they’re serving the public.' That was President Teddy Roosevelt, and he was tough and he prosecuted people.”