There are 2 parts to the Perdue story, and people are missing the second part. First, ADM sold his company a property for a fraction of its value. THEN Perdue did something that concealed his huge return on that investment, which kept folks from realizing what ADM had done. /1
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 29, 2021
This story about Trump’s agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue is complex, I’ll walk you through some of the absolutely amazing highlights. (Thread)https://t.co/aIuZjjmHKZ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 29, 2021
The former president*’s corruption was so obvious and so garish that we occasionally lost sight of how enthusiastically the rest of his band of brigands took to the conventional forms of political sleaze. https://t.co/MGiBYXc1rA
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 29, 2021
Sad! 