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Swamps are very valuable ecosystems and everything in them have evolved to play a crucial role in nature. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, file)

Beltway Confidential

‘Drain the swamp’ is a misunderstood metaphor

Ed Gibney · December 10, 2016 12:00 am

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