My friend, in 2025, the president is auctioning off criminal pardons. So far this year, these pardons have cost the government and fraud victims 1.3 billion dollars.
His friends, none of whom are elected officials, meanwhile, are making massive options trades before his yo-yo tariff announcements or his Argentinian bailouts, or, or...
That is what brazen corruption looks like, enabled by a corrupt court[1] that has made him unprosecutable.
All this, on the other hand, is what quiet, hidden corruption looks like. All of the people involved here have power and influence and pull, and they use it, but they don't control the DOJ, and aren't actually unprosecutable.
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[1] And a GOP congress that has handed him (not his office - him) both the power of the purse and the power to unilaterally impose taxes.
His friends, none of whom are elected officials, meanwhile, are making massive options trades before his yo-yo tariff announcements or his Argentinian bailouts, or, or...
That is what brazen corruption looks like, enabled by a corrupt court[1] that has made him unprosecutable.
All this, on the other hand, is what quiet, hidden corruption looks like. All of the people involved here have power and influence and pull, and they use it, but they don't control the DOJ, and aren't actually unprosecutable.
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[1] And a GOP congress that has handed him (not his office - him) both the power of the purse and the power to unilaterally impose taxes.