Trump settles into swamp life
US President-election Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" in Washington. But the old lines of Washington power, financial and political, are all too clear in his latest appointments
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
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