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Personal Grift (Executive Watch)

The White House Let Kristi Noem's Corruption Slide For Over a Year Before Allowing an Investigation
One of the hallmarks of the Trump administration is its open and spectacular political corruption—often conducted under protection from the very top.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Helps His Crony to Loot Taxpayers By Requiring DOJ Loyalists to Hand Over Millions to Settle a Bogus Lawsuit
Donald Trump’s most direct attempt to loot the federal Treasury is to file a lawsuit against the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Administration Insiders Might Be Illegally Making Billions on Massive Iran War Insider Trading Without Fear of Being Investigated
It has long been speculated that Trump insiders are using advance knowledge of his chaotic decisions to make huge amounts of money from stock market…
 • Executive Watch
Prediction Markets Getting Flooded with Accounts Making Money Off Iran War Raise Concerns About Corrupt Betting by Trump Insiders
Alongside cryptocurrency, the Trump administration has championed online “prediction markets,” a kind of legalized gambling that gives scope for corrupt…
 • Executive Watch
Kristi Noem's Unofficial Chief of Staff and Rumored Lover Corey Lewandowski Is Accused of Soliciting Bribes In Exchange for DHS Contracts
Kristi Noem may be on her way out at the Department of Homeland Security, but her tenure has shown us the vast corruption that is tolerated and…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Hands a No-Bid Contract to the Company That Planned the Jan. 6 Rally
The purpose of political corruption is not just for political insiders to cash in.
 • Executive Watch
Nobody Knows What Happened to the Mega Donations for Trump's Presidential Library
Presidential libraries have long carried the potential for corruption, allowing former presidents to solicit vast donations with no transparency.
 • Executive Watch
DOGE Bro Who Stole Our Social Security Data to Illegally Transfer it to His Company Said He Expected a Presidential Pardon
When DOGE went rampaging through the federal bureaucracy, one of the first things it did—on its way to not actually cutting government spending—was to…
 • Executive Watch
The Labor Secretary Is Mired in Scandal and Corruption, Just Like Her Boss
Donald Trump has set the precedent that public office is a perk to be used for personal gain, and this permeates his entire administration.
 • Executive Watch
Kash Patel Uses FBI Jet for Olympic Luxury Tourist Trip
If Donald Trump thinks he is our king, his courtiers think they are royalty, entitled to a luxury lifestyle funded by the government.
 • Executive Watch
Naming Buildings After Trump Is Not Only About Self-Aggrandizement But Also Self-Enrichment
There is a reason we don’t usually name things after presidents while they are still in office, or even while they are still alive.
 • Executive Watch
Trump's Military Commanders Order Troops to Buy Tickets to Melania Documentary That Pays Her $28 Million
Jeff Bezos spending $75 million on a documentary about Donald Trump’s wife, from which she will personally pocket an estimated $28 million, is an…
 • Executive Watch
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