New president’s politicking raises ethics flags

WASHINGTON — Barely five months into office, President Donald Trump keeps taking time out from governing to run for re-election.
On Wednesday night, he’ll attend his first 2020 campaign fundraiser, rubbing elbows with some of the Republican Party’s top donors on familiar turf: his own hotel down the street from the White House. He’s already spent five evenings on the road at political rallies, always in states that supported him in November and always in front of an audie