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Political Corruption (Executive Watch)

Trump Fires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Publishing a Report He Found Insufficiently Optimistic About the Impact…
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was notorious for firing officials—or sending them to the gulag—for delivering bad news about the failure of his policies.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Abruptly Fires Former FBI Director James Comey's Daughter, a Federal Prosecutor Who Worked on Epstein-Related Cases
Trump’s appointees have stoked expectations that they will release information about Jeffrey Epstein—a notorious abuser and procurer of underage…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Imposes Tariffs on Brazil to Prevent His Strongman Buddy Bolsonaro from Being Prosecuted for an Attempted Coup
Donald Trump’s arbitrary imposition of tariffs is not merely an abuse of his power over the economy.
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Robert Tracinski
Treasury Official Ask IRS to Rethink Audits of the Pillow Guy and Trump's Other 'High Profile Friends'
It’s good to be a friend of the president.
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Robert Tracinski
The White House Fires a Federal Prosecutor Who Criticized Trump and Was Prosecuting a Trump-Supporting, Tax-Defrauding CEO
Adam Schleifer, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, was fired on direct orders from the White House because he criticized President Trump while running…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Announces Shakedown Deal with Big Law Firm
Executive Watch has already noted Donald Trump’s threats against Big Law firms that have represented his political opponents.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Charges Business Leaders $5 Million to Dine with him and Potentially Pockets the Funds
Donald Trump views bribery and official corruption as a perk of office, which is why he suspended the case against a corrupt mayor and pardoned a…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Uses Sovereign Crypto Fund as a Payout to Political Insiders
Highly volatile cryptocurrencies are a dubious investment for government funds to begin with.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Abuses His Foreign Policy Powers as a Favor to 'Manosphere' Influencer Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate is a leading figure in the misogynistic “manosphere” known for his toxic influence on young men.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump’s Pardon-for-Deportation Crackdown Deal with NYC Mayor Eric Adams
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with taking bribes from the government of Turkey, but Donald Trump’s new appointees ordered federal…
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Robert Tracinski
Surprise! The Most Ethically Challenged Administration Guts the Government Ethics Agency
If this administration were truly interested in rooting out “waste, fraud, and abuse,” it wouldn’t be firing those whose job it is do just that.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Gives the Green Light to American Companies to Engage in Corruption Abroad
Given his own penchant for personal grift, Donald Trump seems to see bribery and political corruption as the normal way of doing business.
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Robert Tracinski
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