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Trump Is Making Deals With Russia to Ensure That His Family and Cronies Profit Big After the Ukraine War Ends
The president is supposed to set U.S.
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Crony Is Robbing the Kennedy Center to Pay Other Cronies, Senate Democrats Accuse
You know the president is attempting to politicize civil society when you have to read Playbill and OperaWire to keep up with the latest political news.
 • Robert Tracinski
The Swiss Bribe Trump With Gold Bars and Watches to Buy a Reprieve from His Tariffs
Like a king in his palace, Donald Trump summons people to the White House to accept lavish gifts and flattery.
 • Robert Tracinski
Crooked Trump Hands a Defense Contract to a Company That Hires Don Jr. as an Advisor for Millions of Dollars
It is, unfortunately, pretty normal for the children and other relatives of presidents to make money from their proximity of power, but Donald Trump’s…
 • Robert Tracinski
A Crypto Conman Whose Platform Helped Hamas Launder Money Receives a Full Pardon After Investing in Trump's Crypto Fund
One of the most flagrant abuses of Trump’s second term is his more or less open sale of pardons to those who enrich him and his family.
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Plots to Loot the U.S. Treasury for $230 Million for Trying to Hold Him Accountable to the Rule of Law
Donald Trump plans to loot the U.S.
 • Robert Tracinski
Google Delivers $22 Million to Trump to Settle His Frivolous Lawsuit—Just Like Other Major Companies Afraid that He’ll Otherwise Use His…
The signature form of corruption for Donald Trump’s return to office has been big corporations settling frivolous lawsuits they could easily win in…
 • Robert Tracinski
The Trump Justice Department Shuts Down the FBI Case Investigating Border Czar Tom Homan for Accepting Cash Bribes
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan was recorded last September on camera by undercover FBI agents accepting a…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump's Spectacularly Corrupt Crypto-for-Chips Deal With the UAE Will Compromise National Security But Enrich Him
The second Trump administration will be remembered for some of the most spectacular official corruption in our nation’s history—and that’s saying…
 • Robert Tracinski
JD Vance Has Army Corps of Engineers Change the Flow of a River to Ensure He Has Ideal Kayaking Conditions for his 41st Birthday Celebration
Nothing captures the imperial quality of the Trump administration better than having the vast apparatus of a continent-spanning government harness to…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Sells a Pardon to a Rich Crook Who Paid a Million Bucks to Have Dinner With Him
In addition to pardons for fellow celebrity fraudsters whom Donald Trump regards as kindred spirits, he is now also flagrantly selling pardons to people…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens ABC With an FCC Investigation for Reporting that He Solicited the Qatari Palace in the Sky as a Plane Bribe
How do we know Donald Trump is accepting a $400 million bribe from the royal family of Qatar?
 • Robert Tracinski
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