Is Trump an agent of change?

Christopher Cudworth
8 min readOct 2, 2020

The claim going into the Trump presidency is that he was an agent of change, set to combat corruption, and “drain the swamp” to Make America Great Again. What we’ve gotten instead is a series of corrupt actions and emergent evidence of fraud and graft the likes of which the nation has never seen from a single President.

These include violations regarding emoluments, newly revealed evidence of tax evasion, genuine fraud convictions on both Trump University and the Trump Foundation, campaign finance regulations, impeached attempts at coercing foreign governments to aid in his

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Christopher Cudworth

I'm an artist, writer, competitive athlete and naturalist who believes in social justice and equality.