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Post by aj2hall on May 22, 2025 20:15:50 GMT
There are so many examples of corruption, but this crypto currency might be one of the worst bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lprsfl3ws42xThe 220 top buyers of Trump's memecoin will have dinner with him at his golf club tonight.
The average price of admission is $1M per person.
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Post by aj2hall on May 22, 2025 20:18:43 GMT
Not only is FF and his family profiting from his position, staff and advisors in his administration are, too bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lpruvzrpvn2pAccording to ProPublica, more than a dozen top executive branch officials and congressional aides sold stocks just before Trump's "Liberation Day" market crash.
Today would be a great day to ban public servants from trading stocks, don't you think?www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-trump-tariffsMore Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.
Two days before that so-called “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, a State Department official sold as much as $50,000 in stock, then bought a similar investment as prices fell.
And just before Trump made another significant tariff announcement, a White House lawyer sold shares in nine companies, records show.
More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides have made well-timed trades since Trump took office in January, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war, according to a ProPublica review of disclosures across the government.
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets. |
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Post by aj2hall on May 22, 2025 20:30:42 GMT
The Bloomberg article has a lot of details on his hotel ventures, crypto and other stuff bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3lprphw3o7k2nTimothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Trump’s story has always been that he should be president because he was rich. That was always false. In order to become rich he had to first become the president.www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-trump-family-presidency-wealth/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NzkyMzAwOSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4NTI3ODA5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV01RQ0RUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzMDE5ODZEQ0U2NDg0MjI2ODBFNjdCNjEyQUJERkZERCJ9.VWXNd3nsO7fUID26rPctRl0exILjS_wzUKujvcuiz0E&leadSource=uverify%20wallWealth | The Big Take
THE TRUMP FAMILY’S MONEY-MAKING MACHINE
Since he kicked off his campaign, Trump’s empire has landed billions of dollars of deals at home and abroad.
The way Donald Trump sees it, he’s the greatest businessman to campaign for the White House.
“I’m the most successful person ever to run,” he told an Iowa reporter in 2015. “I have a Gucci store that’s worth more than Romney.”
That might have been an exaggeration, but this isn’t: A decade later, no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.
In that time, the Trump name has powered more than $10 billion of real estate projects, a multibillion-dollar valuation for his money-losing social-media company, more than $500 million in sales from just one of his crypto ventures and millions of dollars more from stakes in companies that offer financial services, guns and drone parts. Family members have also scored an array of corporate positions — at least seven new roles as an adviser or executive for his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., alone.
Compared with the tumult of the presidency, the empire’s approach is consistent and clear: Sell the family name. In any other era, this scale of presidential moneymaking would threaten to be the story of the year, but political uproar has hogged most of the attention.
And as he’s hacked away at the government’s workforce and budget, he’s shrunk the agencies and offices that oversee his public company, crypto projects and even conflicts of interest.
Trump has loosened constraints on overseas dealmaking that were put in place in his last administration. (He also let Elon Musk, the billionaire leading an effort to slash government spending, police his own conflicts). This week, he’s scheduled to dine with his new memecoin’s top holders. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 22, 2025 21:04:52 GMT
Oh my!! Is crypto worth it to the common man or just Donny Two Dolls? President Donald Trump is hosting a dinner at his private gold club near Washington, D.C., Thursday night for the top holders of his $TRUMP meme coin, but a report in The Guardian says nearly half of his "winners" have lost millions on the cryptocurrency. According to last month's announcement, the top 220 holders in a $TRUMP meme coin competition would win a ticket to a gala at the Trump National golf club. The top 25 holders would also get the chance to meet the president at a “Private VIP Reception” before the dinner, and the very top four would win a limited edition Trump Tourbillon watch that sells for $100,000. The Guardian reported that the announcement "caused the coin to spike more than 50%." But after analyzing crypto wallets on the Solana blockchain, The Guardian found that many investors "have been burned along the way.""Of the 220 winners, 95 – some 43% – have suffered a net loss from purchasing $Trump since the coin’s January launch, a combined $8.95m, according to trading history and portfolios as of 21 May," the report noted. "A contestant under the username 'GAnt' appears to have endured the biggest losses" at $1.06 million. "Similarly, user 'Meow' is down $621,000, despite achieving VIP status," according to the analysis. The "competition" and disclosure of the "identities of possible attendees" has led to accusations of "pay-to-play policymaking," according to The Guardian. "Topping the leaderboard is Justin Sun, a Chinese-born crypto billionaire who founded the Tron blockchain. Sun was charged in 2023 with market manipulation and offering unregistered securities, but the SEC dropped the case in February," the report said. The one person who has not lost money on $TRUMP is the president himself. "A company controlled by the Trump family and a second firm together hold 80% of the remaining supply of $TRUMP coins, and have so far earned $320.19 million in fees, including at least $1.35 million after the dinner announcement, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis," Reuters reported. Far from a "conflict of interest," the White House says voters expect Trump to make money. "I would argue, one of the many reasons that the American people re-elected this president back to this office is because he was a very successful businessman before giving it up to publicly serve our country," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. www.rawstory.com/trump-costs-trump-dinner-guests-millions-in-losses-report/ |
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Post by sunshine on May 22, 2025 21:30:18 GMT
I definitely prefer my corruption to come with original blow art. 🤣
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Post by aj2hall on May 22, 2025 21:37:11 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on May 22, 2025 22:05:09 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/briefing/trump-family-business.htmlThe Trumps Get Richer
We take a look at the Trump family’s business deals.
Now that President Trump is back in office, his family is profiting from his brand: At least $2 billion has flowed to Trump companies in just the last month. The ventures include real estate, a cryptocurrency and a private club slated to open in Washington with a $500,000 membership fee. Now, Qatar may give him a new presidential airplane.
The ethical mess is obvious. Trump is both the commander in chief and a business partner of foreign governments in Serbia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. The White House says his sons run his companies, so there’s no conflict. Legally, that’s true.
But Trump is still getting rich (or richer) from all of it. And that leaves incentives for the president to pay back his business partners with policy decisions designed to help them, which is how the law defines corruption.
Crypto
$TRUMP is the family’s cryptocurrency, owned by the president and run by Donald Trump Jr. It has no inherent value beside what people will pay for it; the family describes it as a collectible — like a baseball card. But every time someone purchases a coin (currently worth about $13), the family gets a share. Recently, the president offered rewards. The top 220 buyers are invited to dinner with him next week at his Virginia golf club. The top 25 buyers also get a White House tour. The winners of the contest spent at least $174 million to buy $TRUMP coins.
Through an investment firm, the United Arab Emirates put $2 billion into the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency outfit, World Liberty Financial. The company, whose leaders include Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., will make tens of millions of dollars per year from the investment.
Real Estate
Qatar chipped in to help finance a Trump-branded beachside golf and luxury villa project in the country worth $5.5 billion. (We don’t know how much it contributed.) The family will earn millions in licensing and management fees.
A real estate firm in Saudi Arabia (with close ties to the country’s government) invested $1 billion in the Trump International Hotel and Tower project in Dubai. The same company is planning to build other new Trump hotels, golf courses and luxury towers in Saudi Arabia and Oman. These, too, are branding deals that will pay the Trumps millions of dollars for their name.
During the Balkan wars, NATO bombed Yugoslavia’s Defense Ministry in Belgrade. Now Serbia’s president is leasing the land to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who will erect a Trump hotel on the site. Kushner’s private equity company — funded mostly by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds — will help cover the $1 billion project.
Other deals
Plane: Qatar is planning to give a $400 million Boeing 747 aircraft to the president so he can use it as a temporary Air Force One. His presidential library will own the plane after his presidency, Trump says.
Members’ club: Donald Trump Jr. and other investors say they will open the Executive Branch, a private social club, in Georgetown this summer. Its members will include lobbyists, tech industry bigwigs and a sprinkling of White House officials, such as David Sacks, who is Trump’s crypto czar. The cost to join: $500,000.
Golf: LIV Golf, the new Saudi-backed golf league, hosted a professional tournament at Trump National Doral in Florida last month. The president arrived on a military helicopter to kick it off. The league is run by the head of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. It paid the Trump family an undisclosed fee to host the LIV tournament. The event also drove thousands of fans to the hotel resort, selling out its rooms and restaurants.
Hotels: During Trump’s first term, dignitaries stayed at Trump properties and Republicans put on events there. These payments collectively were in the tens of millions of dollars. Payments like these have resumed. Groups like the Republican National Committee have put on events at the Doral resort and the Mar-a-Lago club, for instance.
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Post by aj2hall on May 23, 2025 11:24:09 GMT
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-2025There is the open corruption, as when the Trump administration officially accepted a 747 as a gift from the Qatari government yesterday, despite the constitutional prohibition against taking gifts from foreign governments. Trump currently says he will not use it after he leaves office, but since Air Force officials say it will take years and up to a billion in taxpayer money to secure it for use by a president, it seems unlikely that he accepted the plane simply to become an exhibit in an as-yet-unstarted Trump presidential library.
And then there is the more hidden corruption.
Last week, David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton of the New York Times called attention to the announcement by a struggling technology company with ties to China that it had secured funding to buy $300 million of Trump’s cryptocurrency $TRUMP. It appears the company is hoping to curry favor with the president.
Zach Everson of Forbes noted that the Trump family controls about 60% of World Liberty Financial, a decentralized financial platform that produces the USD1 stablecoin, a kind of cryptocurrency that fluctuates less than most cryptocurrencies because it’s pegged to the dollar. World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin began trading yesterday on KuCoin, an exchange headquartered in the Seychelles and banned in the United States after it admitted to violating laws against money laundering and agreed to pay a $300 million fine. A spokesperson for KuCoin told Everson that it had reached out about carrying USD1 after the coin “demonstrated strong demand in certain regions.”
The racism and the corruption are coming together tonight as the top 220 holders of the $TRUMP coin join the president at a private dinner. A Bloomberg analysis of the top 25 wallets shows that 19 are owned by individuals from outside the United States, and many of the winners are companies looking for access to the president. Many of them dumped their $TRUMP coins as soon as they made the cut for the dinner.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington reported today that 50 of the people attending Trump's dinner tonight hold crypto assets with names from the alt-right, including Pepe the Frog and swastikas, or that have names that are racist or antisemitic, including the n-word and “F*CK THE JEWS.”
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Post by aj2hall on May 24, 2025 1:15:30 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 2, 2025 20:19:08 GMT
bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lqnlpw627t2jRobert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
Billions in foreign real estate deals.
$320M in crypto trading fees — and a private dinner with top buyers of his meme coin.
$28M from Amazon for a Melania documentary.
The list goes on...
We're so numb to Trump profiting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices. Hello?
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Post by Zee on Jun 2, 2025 20:32:41 GMT
They're also incapable of admitting he's done anything at all unethical. Instead, they resort to "whattabout".
This is one of the LEAST unethical things he's done or said or encouraged. Pardon me if I'm just kind of numb to this one.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 2, 2025 20:34:33 GMT
On the other hand.... Talking dollars... President Donald Trump bragged Wednesday that he brought back "$5.1 trillion" from the Middle East after his trip, but MSNBC producer Steve Benen is worried the cash is all in his imagination.And, he worried, he's already spending it. Trump claimed, “So, I made that money in about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.” In a Thursday column, Benen set out trying to find the cash. Ignoring the plane from Qatar, Benen pointed out that Trump appears to love the figure "$5.1 trillion." He uses it a lot. "He referenced it a week ago when unveiling the 'Make America Healthy Again' report, which came two days after he pushed the same line during a visit to Capitol Hill, which came one day after he repeated the talking point at the White House," wrote Benen, noting that last week Trump even suggested the sum could even be “$7 trillion." To put that in context, $5.1 trillion is about one-sixth of the entire U.S. GDP. A Washington Post fact-check said that Trump has recently begun claiming successes and foreign investments secured by President Joe Biden as his own. Trump's fuzzy math includes Biden investments as well as those Trump had previously secured before the trip. Still, Trump maintained that "in about two hours," he secured $5.1 trillion. "The sum of the deals is under $1 trillion," the report said. The New York Times report did its own calculations, saying, "The value of the agreements appeared to total about $283 billion.” Benen noted that even those investments "might not happen," but even if they did, $283 billion is significantly lower than $5.1 trillion. Some of that cash only "might materialize," and if it does, it'll be in "future decades," said Paul Waldman in Public Notice, Benen cited. Aside from the lies, Benen confessed that his concerns are that Trump appears to be already spending the money he claims he has collected. Not only does his 2026 budget add to the deficit Republican lawmakers complain about, but Trump is also talking about spending it on his "Golden Dome" project. And more...... www.rawstory.com/trump-deficit-trillion-2672231760/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 2, 2025 20:42:03 GMT
Even if you think Hunter Biden selling art was corrupt (and I think this is debatable)
1. He was not the president and never held public office
2. The money is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions with a b that Trump and his company have raked in
If you're not willing to criticize Trump and his blatant, open corruption with a $400 million plane from Qatar, billions in real estate deals and millions in his crypto currency scam, STFU about Hunter
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Post by Zee on Jun 2, 2025 21:41:16 GMT
Even if you think Hunter Biden selling art was corrupt (and I think this is debatable) 1. He was not the president and never held public office 2. The money is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions with a b that Trump and his company have raked in If you're not willing to criticize Trump and his blatant, open corruption with a $400 million plane from Qatar, billions in real estate deals and millions in his crypto currency scam, STFU about Hunter "But her emails" is still a thing so I don't expect them to stop whattabouting anytime soon. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 4, 2025 15:07:01 GMT
I'm not sure if this includes the new contracts? www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/130_days_of_elon_musk_report.pdfheathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2025Meanwhile, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a report showing that Musk’s net worth has increased by more than $100 billion since Election Day. The report listed the many ways in which he used his position in the federal government to stop investigations into his companies, undercut regulations, win federal contracts, gain access to data and sensitive information, attack his enemies, meddle in elections, and secure foreign deals, all without informing the American people of his conflicts of interest. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 4, 2025 18:45:03 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/opinion/trump-pardon-power.htmlNo President Has Wielded the Pardon Power the Way Trump Has
But President Trump has transformed the pardon practice into a menacing new frontier of presidential power. I call it “patronage pardoning”: reducing the expected penalty for loyalist misconduct by conspicuously pardoning political allies. This blunt instrument of venality and regime control is a standing public commitment to protect and reward loyalism, however criminal.
As the new U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin recently put it, “No MAGA left behind.”
The defining feature of patronage pardoning is the use of clemency to make regime loyalists less responsive to the threat of criminal punishment. The more partisan and outrageous the pardons, the stronger the signal transmitted to those contemplating loyalist misconduct. President Trump’s pardons may induce people to break conventional criminal laws, but they may also induce criminal interference with official functions — through perjury, obstruction and defiance of court orders.
Healthy democracies don’t sponsor loyalty-for-protection rackets. Indeed, patronage pardoning is part of a broader Trumpist legal project that threatens the rule of law. His governance model treats law-enforcement institutions not as agents of a sovereign people but as tools of regime compliance — prosecute enemies and spare friends, as performatively as possible.
But concentrated pardon power necessarily risks favoritism and self-dealing.
Nevertheless, and in ways that his predecessors did not, President Trump has made patronage pardons a centerpiece of stage-managed governance. There are ways for American institutions can respond meaningfully, but those responses require imagination, coordination and some political will.
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 5, 2025 17:21:49 GMT
I hope they fine Hegseth. Democrats need to start fighting back and there need to be consequences for massive blatant corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/raskin-hegseth-qatari-plane.htmlTop Democrat Warns Hegseth He Could Face Fines for Accepting Qatari Plane
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged the defense secretary to come to Congress for approval of the jet President Trump wants to use as Air Force One.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, informed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could face steep fines for having accepted a luxury jet from the Qatari government, arguing the gift violated the Constitution and a federal gifts law, and required congressional approval. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 7, 2025 22:38:04 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/opinion/trump-corruption.html
At the gala dinner President Trump held last month for those who bought the most Trump cryptocurrency, the champion spender was the entrepreneur Justin Sun, who had put down more than $40 million on $Trump coins. Mr. Sun had a good reason to hope that this investment would pay off. He previously invested $75 million in a different Trump crypto venture — and shortly after the Trump administration took office in January, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused its lawsuit against him on charges of cryptocurrency fraud.
The message seemed obvious enough: People who make Mr. Trump richer regularly receive favorable treatment from the government he runs.
The cryptocurrency industry is perhaps the starkest example of the culture of corruption in his second term. He and his relatives directly benefit from the sale of their cryptocurrency by receiving a cut of the investment. Even if the price of the coins later falls and investors lose money, the Trumps can continue to benefit by receiving a commission on future sales. Forbes magazine estimates that he made about $1 billion in cryptocurrency in the past nine months, about one-sixth of his net worth. Only a few years ago, Mr. Trump was deeply skeptical of cryptocurrency, calling it “potentially a disaster waiting to happen” and comparing it to the “drug trade and other illegal activity.” Since he and his family have become major players in the market, however, his concerns have evidently disappeared. He shut down a Justice Department team that investigated illegal uses of cryptocurrency. He pardoned crypto executives who pleaded guilty to crimes, and his administration dropped federal investigations of crypto companies. He nullified an Internal Revenue Service rule that went after crypto users who didn’t pay their taxes.
“Donald Trump wants to numb this country into believing that this is just how government works,” Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a recent floor speech. “That he’s owed this. That every president is owed this. That government has always been corrupt, and he’s just doing it out in the open.” But Democrats should do even more to highlight the ways that Mr. Trump is using powers that rightfully belong to the American people — the powers of the federal government — to benefit himself.
If Americans shrug this off as just “Trump being Trump,” his self-dealing will become accepted behavior. It will encourage other politicians to sell their offices. The damage will undermine our government, our society and even our economy. Historically, when corruption becomes the norm in a country, economic growth suffers, and living standards stagnate. Under Mr. Trump, the United States is sliding down that slope.
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 8, 2025 12:30:26 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/trump-corruption.html
President Trump has more than doubled his personal wealth since starting his 2024 election campaign. Billions of foreign dollars have flowed into his family’s real estate and crypto ventures. A plane that doubles as a “palace in the sky” has been given for Mr. Trump’s use by the government of Qatar.
It is easy to dismiss this as just a bigger and more brazen version of the self-dealing we saw during the first Trump term. But it poses a more fundamental danger. Our political system is being transformed into something that no longer serves the people. Indeed, the United States is seemingly becoming just another country with a corrupt strongman personalizing and profiting from power.
Vladimir Putin pursued this playbook in Russia. The news media was forced into the hands of his political allies. Natural resources and lucrative contracts were turned over to his associates. Mr. Putin reportedly became one of the world’s richest men while creating a system in which the nation’s interests became indistinguishable from its leader’s.
Americans are farther downriver than we seem to understand. Indeed, over the past several months, Mr. Trump has made moves that far exceed anything Mr. Orban has done. What separates Mr. Trump from an Orban or even a Putin is the awesome economic, technological and military power of the enterprise that he now leads: the United States of America.
No country has more leverage over the global economy. Through tariffs announced on every country on earth, Mr. Trump has personalized that power. Tariffs give him the authority to move markets. He can turn the dial up or down. He has bypassed Congress and cast efforts to constrain him as anti-American, lashing out at “USA HATING JUDGES” on a trade court that tried to limit his tariff authority. This creates limitless opportunities for profit.
On “Liberation Day,” Mr. Trump announced a 46 percent tariff on imports from Vietnam. He then paused it and created a 90-day period to negotiate. During this window, the Vietnamese government hastily approved a $1.5 billion deal involving a Trump golf complex before a ceremony attended by Eric Trump. (Legally, Mr. Trump’s sons run his companies, which the White House claims prevents potential conflicts of interest.)
It’s impossible to know if this was a quid pro quo for tariff relief. But the ambiguity is the point. Governments like Vietnam’s are left to wonder what they can do to appease the U.S. president.
Or take technology. On his recent trip to the Persian Gulf, Mr. Trump scrapped Biden-era restrictions on the export of advanced semiconductors and artificial intelligence to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Was this a considered policy decision about the proliferation of sensitive technology or a result of a $2 billion Emirati investment in a Trump crypto venture? Again, the ambiguity is the point, and many foreign governments are likely to bet on the latter.
Power, and the potential to profit off it, rests with Mr. Trump and whomever he favors.
This personalized approach to power infuses Mr. Trump’s transactional worldview. Rules are less important than money. Value propositions are seen as naïve. Institutions, laws and norms have given way to the logic of deals. That begets danger as the water continues to rush downriver.
If deregulated crypto markets generate a worrisome bubble, will Mr. Trump prioritize his family’s investments or the health of the global financial system? If justice is selective and pardons can be purchased, will white-collar crime proliferate? If the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act continues to go unenforced, will bribery be normalized as the cost of doing business?
Then there is the most powerful institution in the U.S. government: the military. Mr. Trump has pledged a trillion-dollar defense budget. Given the fealty to the president demonstrated by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, how can we be assured that vital contracting decisions will be made based on the nation’s security and fiscal health and not on a pay-to-play basis?
Corruption is a powerful tool, but it is not popular. To build a movement powerful enough to push back on Mr. Trump’s self-dealing, Democrats must show people how it will affect their lives. The outrage isn’t just that the Trumps are getting richer or can fly on a fancy plane; it’s that your car payments and groceries will be more expensive because of tariffs, that you could lose your job if A.I. is unregulated and that the world will become more dangerous if there are no rules — only deals and the perpetual aggrandizement of the president’s ego.
The last time this country had a Gilded Age was in the late 19th century. It gave birth to American populism and, ultimately, a progressive era of politics that transformed both parties and raised people’s expectations for politicians and their government. Conditions are ripening for that to happen again. The alternative may be an end to American democracy itself.
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Post by dawnnikol on Jun 8, 2025 14:02:40 GMT
So much winning.
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