Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
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
“Before being shut down, the Council of Inspectors General was a shared resource for the dozens of inspectors general’s offices located in various government agencies across the executive branch. It provided training for investigatory staff and ran a tip line to collect reports of waste, fraud, and abuse.
By shutting down the council, the White House may have also shuttered the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), which was created as part of the CARES Act and operated as a subcommittee of the council. (However, its website was still active on Wednesday morning.)
The PRAC was tasked with overseeing pandemic relief spending—which was absolutely rife with fraud—and was recently reauthorized by Congress until 2034 as part of the 2025 tax bill.
The White House’s decision to close the two federal watchdog agencies has drawn criticism from at least two Republican senators. “We urgently request an explanation for these actions and ask that you to promptly reverse course so that CIGIE and PRAC can continue their important oversight work uninterrupted,” wrote Sens. Susan Collins (R–Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R–Iowa) in a letter to OMB Director Russell Vought this week.
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Like with the earlier attempt at firing dozens of inspectors general from their posts, this latest effort at undermining the viability of the government’s watchdogs suggests the Trump administration is less interested in draining the swamp than in pushing aside people who might sound the alarm about corruption.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/the-white-house-just-defunded-a-federal-watchdog/
“Federal law enforcement last year investigated Homan, who allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts, according to an MSNBC report on Saturday. The outlet reported that Homan indicated he could help the undercover agents secure government contracts. The Justice Department waited to see if Homan planned to fulfil this claim, but the case stalled and was closed this summer.”
Does he still have the money?
… Homan is a close ally of the president, and served for a stint as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his first term. The border czar has been among the most visible defenders of the president’s second term immigration agenda, and has been a key player in executing the administration’s deportation policy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/22/border-homan-white-house-defend-00575358
The Trump administration has huge conflicts of interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMiZUUy_iO4
“Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya and will soon become the first former president of France to serve time in prison.
The sentence was harsher than many expected and Sarkozy, who was president between 2007-2012, will spend time in jail even if he appeals the ruling – which he said he would do…
“What happened today … is of extreme gravity in regard to the rule of law, and for the trust one can have in the justice system,” he told reporters.
“If they absolutely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but with my head held high,” he said, adding that he was innocent. “I will not apologise for something I didn’t do.”
Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from Libya during the rule of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-court-deliver-verdict-sarkozy-020356670.html
“Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar who promised to bring “hell” to Boston, was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash during a September 2024 meeting with undercover FBI agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts, according to multiple media outlets.
The cash was held in a bag from the food chain Cava, the New York Times reported, citing sources who were familiar with the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Homan investigation arose from a long-running counterintelligence probe that was not targeting Homan.
According to MSNBC, which first reported the story, Homan told the undercover agents he could help them get government contracts.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-border-czar-promised-bring-163906390.html
Trump is making it very difficult to regulate cryptocurrencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD4OcMygky8
Hunter Biden defends himself and spits hot fire. Takes on MAGA, Democrats, Jake Tapper, and a waterfall of lies. Discusses his: drug addiction, gun charge, and late taxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M