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Political Corruption (Executive Watch)

Trump Seeks to Quash E. Jean Carroll's Defamation Suit by Substituting Sue-Proof Uncle Sam as the Defendant
One of the few times Donald Trump has been held accountable is when a jury ruled that he had sexually assaulted columnist E.
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Trump's DOJ Killed Probe Into Puerto Rico Prison Officials Who Offered Inmates Drugs for Republican Votes
Donald Trump likes to claim that elections are rigged—when he loses them.
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Trump Envoy Asked FIFA's Italian President to Replace Iran's Soccer Team With Italy's in the World Cup
Not content to meddle with college football in America, Donald Trump sees himself as a kind of king of the world entitled to dictate the terms of global…
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RFK Jr. Buries a Report Confirming the Efficacy of COVID Vaccines Because It Conflicts With His Quack Beliefs
In order to bring in a bloc of anti-vaccine voters, Donald Trump promised to appoint an anti-vaccine zealot as head of the Department of Health and…
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Trump’s Ballroom Contract Ensures Anonymity to Donors and Prevents Congress From Getting Answers for Conflict of Interest Queries
The worst part about Donald Trump’s plan to build a ginormous gilded ballroom is not the ballroom itself, as gaudy and bloated as it is.
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Trump Openly Muses Mass Pardons for Henchmen Who Commit Crimes for Him
The pardon power was created to grant clemency for the deserving—the unjustly prosecuted or those who have made restitution for their crimes through…
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Foreign Steel Maker Gets Tariff Breaks In Exchange for Free Steel for the Trump Ballroom
Donald Trump’s massive White House ballroom has become a nexus of corruption before it even gets built.
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DOJ Seeks to Divert the Settlement in a Predatory Lending Case From Hispanic Victims to ICE to Target Them
Donald Trump has been eager to scrape together sources of funding that do not require him to ask the permission of Congress.
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The DOJ Declares the Presidential Records Act Unconstitutional to Give Trump Cover to Destroy Evidence of Presidential Corruption and…
Donald Trump’s theory of presidential power is that it is a grant of absolute authority vested in one man, answerable to no other institution.
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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.
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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.
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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
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