Steve Mnuchin, he of the exquisite ethics and morals, will attend this year's financial party in Saudi Arabia. No doubt, the coterie normally attending will drag along: the TrumPutin children Jared and Ivanka, plus Cabinet scofflaws Ross, et al., and economic advisors desperate to cash in before their idol is impeached and convicted.
Last year, out of deference to the bad optics surrounding the Saudis' murder and mutilation of Jamal Khashoggi, the TrumPutin heavy-hitters stayed away from the party. But it's been a year; Khashoggi is old news and there is so much good coming out of Saudi Arabia - extended stays at Trump Hotels, oil production protected by U.S. troops, climate change outweighed by development and jobs, etc.
The good news to TrumPutin fans is that the expiration date on morals in the TrumPutin regime is one year.
When morals and ethics erupt in his regime, they put a damper on economic virtue that is depressing to the true TrumPutin stalwart. Almost as depressing as wildlife getting in the way of timber roads and oil exploration.
The better news for TrumPutinistas is the proof that ethics will have only a rare and temporary impression on TrumPutin, Goldman Sachs, or anyone serving at the whim of the Moron-in-Chief. Ethics and morals will always be a passing spasm for them. Small government requires small, temporary morals and ethics.
So they will go to Saudi Arabia, celebrate the Crown Prince, forget murder and celebrate plausible deniability, and convince the Crown Prince to stay more often at Trump Hotels.
It's TrumPutin's foreign policy.