exhaustively investigated the deaths of US personnel at the Benghazi consulate in 2012, and the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of the tax-exempt status of conservative groups that strayed too close to electoral politics, yawned away the ethical infractions of the Trump White House. “I think the people who voted for Donald Trump went into it with eyes wide open,” Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, told my Atlantic colleague McKay Coppins in March 2017. “Everybody knew he was rich, everybody knew he had lots of different entanglements. . . . These other little
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