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The Trump administration is deregulating betting markets, and people with insider knowledge are winning big and screwing people who don’t have that special information. Trump’s son is partnered with two major betting markets as an investor and advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtGTp1O_w8
There’s a good chance that the Chinese company ByteDance still controls the TikTok algorithm, so Trump’s deal does not solve the national security concerns, yet it makes some of Trump’s friends a lot of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jvd4avDcys
“Before Donald Trump made him second in command at the Justice Department, Todd Blanche was the president’s most prominent defense attorney, shielding him from an avalanche of criminal cases that threatened to land him in jail for years.
That loyalty led Trump to appoint Blanche as his designated representative to the National Archives, the keeper of White House records from the president’s first term. Large swathes of those first-term records are slated to become publicly available next week, and under the Presidential Records Act, the president’s designees play an outsized role in governing the public’s access to those files.
American Oversight, a prominent left-leaning government transparency group, is urging Blanche to relinquish his role as the gatekeeper to Trump’s presidential records, saying his attorney-client relationship with the president — in addition to his role as deputy attorney general — presents a conflict. Anything less, the group argues, will erode public confidence in the process.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/todd-blanche-trump-records-00732980
“Cártel de los Soles “is actually a slang term, invented by the Venezuelan media in the 1990s, for officials who are corrupted by drug money.” As Savage explained in November, citing “a range of specialists in Latin American criminal and narcotics issues,” Cártel de los Soles “is not a literal organization” but rather “a figure of speech in Venezuela.”
In 2020, in other words, the Justice Department made a pretty embarrassing mistake, which it has sought to rectify in the revised indictment. Yet the Treasury Department and the State Department are still listing Cártel de los Soles, which federal prosecutors now say refers to “a patronage system” created by a bunch of corrupt government officials, as an FTO, which under federal law means “a foreign organization” that “engages in terrorist activity” threatening “the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.””
https://reason.com/2026/01/07/why-the-doj-has-stopped-describing-maduro-as-the-head-of-a-literal-drug-cartel/
The Legalization Of Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTWqadj_19k
In the first half of 2024, the Trump Organization had an income of 51 million. In the first half of 2025, that number was 864 million. What big new product storming the world did the Trump Organization come out with? That’s a 1,600% increase!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRLc0SEEJY
Venezuela is run by a corrupt dictatorship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be76NQm-c78
Trump and team accuse Democrats of relatively minor corruption based on weak evidence and then Trump and his family and his allies make ludicrous amounts of money while abusing power and no one cares.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOKSV06VRFg
“During his second term in office, several major media organizations have settled lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump. The lawsuits have little or no merit, and the settlements clearly seem like payoffs meant to hold off a vengeful president. Now Senate Democrats are investigating whether the settlements amount to bribery.
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Legal or not, it’s completely inappropriate for the sitting president to sue media companies he doesn’t like and use the levers of government to force them to settle. While it may not meet the statutory definition of bribery, lawmakers are right to probe both the administration and the companies Trump has targeted.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/20/elizabeth-warren-says-companies-that-settled-with-trump-may-have-committed-bribery/
Trump Border Czar appears to have accepted a 50k bag of cash as a straight up corrupt bribe. The Trump administration either denies or pleads ignorance. On immigration, this man says he’s simply enforcing the law, but when it comes to enforcing corruption against him, the Trump administration doesn’t care. Trump officials inherited this investigation, and chose to drop it. Trump isn’t draining a swamp, he is growing it. His official had accepted a 50k bag of shady influence cash and not only do they drop the investigation, they pretend like it doesn’t matter. They don’t actually care about corruption!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMjce6kSJY