Trump Made Progress on Foreign Lobbying. Biden Reversed It.
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the issue of foreign lobbying and foreign influence raced to the center of American political discourse. And understandably so; given Trump’s own sordid financial connections and how he flung the doors of his White House open to foreign benefactors and foreign agents, the United States had never seen a president as open to foreign influence as Trump.
That didn’t mean, however, that his entire administration followed suit. Ironically, and unexpectedly, some of Trump’s most prominent administration officials led the way in countering foreign influence efforts elsewhere. In the academic space, the administration opened an unprecedented investigation into elite U.S.… Seguir leyendo »