<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The mainstream media had been reporting that story for years, but I never heard of it until last week.</font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's because you only get your news from TwitterX<span class="gmail_default" style="">. </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>if we have people who will do this free, </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>D<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">o</span> what for free? Certainly not investigative reporting because that is hard and most of the time it is boring and leads nowhere.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> But reposting what somebody else had already discovered is easy. </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3730754877850372764"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3730754877850372764WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>All corruption is bad. </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">Is e</span>ven <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>corruption committed by<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent<span class="gmail_default" style=""> bad, such as:</span></b></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><a href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-trial-conviction-of-donald-j-trump/"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> 34-Count Felony <span class="gmail_default" style="">F</span>raud<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Conviction of Donald J. Trump</b></font></a></div><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><a href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-trial-conviction-of-donald-j-trump/">Trump's Taj Mahal Casino Fined $10 Million For Fraud and Money  Laundering</a></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://apnews.com/article/635b828ded6813ea66783869f32876c5"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Trump foundation shut down and Trump forced to pay $2 million for illegally using charitable funds for political purposes:</b></font></a></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I was just about to post this when I found <span class="gmail_default" style="">the following</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">online </span>list of <span class="gmail_default" style="">You Know Who's</span> corruption<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>and realized I had only scratched the surface<span class="gmail_default" style=""> of his </span>perfidy<span class="gmail_default" style="">:</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Turned the White House into a Tesla dealership.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-ftc-firings-bedoya-slaughter-488bfe5419e48d5acbd95d3f9401404b" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Fired </a>independent commissioners at the FTC.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-law-firm-krebs.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Punished</a> former officials who opposed his 2020 election lies.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Paid for the White House Easter Egg roll by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-host-white-house-easter-egg-roll-corporate-sponorships/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">soliciting </a>corporate sponsors who have business pending with the government.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Helped Trump’s son <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/donald-trump-washington-club-00311720" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">set up</a> a club — pay $500,000 for access to Trump’s cabinet.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Declared that there would be NO tariff exceptions. Then permitted Apple’s CEO “behind the scenes” access — and poof, iPhone tariffs were cut.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Created an opening for insider trading by reportedly giving Wall Street exclusive information about trade talks.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-wyden-sanders-press-rfk-jr-on-big-pharma-influence-following-mar-a-lago-dinners" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Hosted</a> million-dollar dinners between Big Pharma CEOs and their regulator RFK Jr.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Launched crypto memecoin right before inauguration to make millions of dollars, then increased the value of those coins by signing executive orders making crypto a priority.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/donald-trump-meme-coin-price-melania-token" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Launched </a>a meme coin for Melania, too. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Promised his "rich-as-hell" donors a giant tax handout, and is working to deliver. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-hatch-act.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Weakened</a> rules insulating government workers from politics.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/pausing-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-enforcement-to-further-american-economic-and-national-security/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Limited </a>corporate foreign bribery investigations.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0038" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Halted</a> enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Offered a private dinner with Trump himself—and a special tour of the White House—for the top 220 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/trump-private-dinner-crypto-memecoin.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">holders </a>of his memecoin, permitting Trump and his family to profit both from the run up in the value of the coin AND the increase in trading on the Trump platform.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Accepted $40 million for First Lady Melania's documentary from <a href="https://x.com/nick_field90/status/1911782724022436225" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Jeff Bezos</a> – way above the market rate.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Pointed to Bezos’s multi-million-dollar documentary payment as a model, when Warner Bros. <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/warner-bros-ceo-david-zaslav-hollywood-mogul.html?_gl=1*er5mrg*FPAU*MTg4MTU2MTM0MS4xNzQ0MDM3Mzgx*_ga*MTc0NDg4NzEwLjE3NDM3MDQ1ODc.*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*MTc0NDYzODM4MC42LjAuMTc0NDYzODM4MC4wLjAuMTMyMjYwMjEwNg..*_fplc*JTJGUFJlYUJGMVBZZXlVdE51Mk1aNXlRazFueEQ3UDRaQmlGRXJGNWNmbkxZZXpsYWtmc2RRaGNoN1Q2bVBMNEN0dFE2V0dRSWpmRmdBaEpod01KUXM3MGxWeDNqQWEycHNoVnl6RCUyQm1CUkljQVYwc3dvSDRJSjFXZEQlMkJvR3JRJTNEJTNE" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">asked</a> Trump's team how to improve its own relationship with the White House.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Struck a deal with Amazon to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/amazon-keeps-finding-ways-donald-184800330.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">stream</a> Trump’s old show The Apprentice, which will mean more money for Trump as Amazon seeks tax breaks and other federal benefits.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Coercing law firms to offer almost <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work-trump" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">$1 billion</a> in free legal work in an arrangement that experts <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67cf71f1f27ef68a8f5c5c70/67fd9c8587c8625cd34ce97f_Legal%20Ethics%20Professor%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">say</a> could run afoul of anti-bribery laws.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Started undermining Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices after Big Pharma companies gave millions to Trump’s inauguration.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Filed a meritless lawsuit against 60 Minutes and launched a baseless FCC investigation.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-media-court-white-house-events-access-f346a0efe87c1dec4d6f90e6041abd09" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Tried</a> to get the AP to bend the knee and kicked them out of the White House briefing room when they refused.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-brother-signal-dhs-hired-68678a8a653c79a4c6ae31a8bee64836" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Hired Defense Secretary </a>Hegseth’s younger brother to serve in a key role.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/nx-s1-5225390/trump-kimberly-guilfoyle-ambassador-greece" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Hired </a>a longtime former partner of Don Jr. to serve as Ambassador to Greece. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/charles-kushner-nominated-france-ambassador" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Nominated </a>Jared Kushner’s father to serve as Ambassador to France. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/massad-boulos-trump-middle-east.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Selected </a>Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law to serve as an adviser.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-election-energy-secretary-d546f5f81d7b2347b49905be924dfcd7" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Appointed </a>an oil and gas executive to lead the Department of Energy.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.citizen.org/article/meet-susie-wiles-controversial-corporate-lobbying-clients/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Selected</a> a Chief of Staff who was a big-time lobbyist for clients like tobacco and mining companies.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Named <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/trump-epa-lobbyists-attorneys" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">officials</a> who had recently lobbied for oil and chemical giants to help write E-P-A rules.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_droz.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Mehmet Oz</a>, who has close ties to Medicare Advantage insurers, to lead CMS to set payment rates and otherwise help out Medicare Advantage insurers.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/27/navy-secretary-nominee-trump-donor-no-military-experience-glides-through-confirmation-hearing.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Appointed </a>John Phelan, a major donor with no military or government experience, to lead the Navy and hand out Navy construction contracts.  </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.citizen.org/news/pam-bondis-corporate-lobbying-history-makes-her-unsuitable-to-be-u-s-attorney-general/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Appointed </a>Pam Bondi, a former lobbyist for a federal detention contractor, to lead the DOJ.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/02/attorney-general-announces-shift-in-foreign-agents" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Announced the DOJ</a> would stop prioritizing enforcement of restrictions on foreign lobbyists, under the leadership of Bondi, who herself is a former <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/pam-bondis-extensive-lobbying-for-wealthy-special-interests-and-foreign-government-poses-serious-conflict-of-interest" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">foreign lobbyist for Qatar</a>.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5189643/commerce-treasury-secretary-howard-lutnick-trump-cantor-fitzgerald" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Appointed </a>Howard Lutnick, who has billions <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-probes-lutnick-for-ties-to-crypto-firm-with-long-record-of-financing-terrorists-illicit-activity" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">invested </a>in companies accused of illegally facilitating crypto money laundering, to lead the Commerce Department.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/final_warren_letter_to_drmartymakaryonethicscommitments.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Marty Makary</a>, the former executive of a company selling weight-loss drugs, to lead the FDA, which would regulate his company.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed <a href="https://accountable.us/trump-transportation-secretary-pick-sean-duffy-brings-conflicts-of-interest/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Sean Duffy</a>, who lobbied for the airline industry, to Transportation Secretary.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Tapped Pete Hegseth, whose <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5092229-warren-pushes-for-hegseths-wife-to-divest-from-defense-company-stocks/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">wife owns stock</a> in large defense contractors, to lead the Defense Department.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Tapped Doug Burgum — who made <a href="https://accountable.us/accountable-us-statement-on-doug-burgums-nomination-to-lead-the-interior-department/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">money</a> from leasing land to Big Oil — to lead the Interior Department.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Nominated a Big Oil lobbyist to run the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/senatorelizabethwarren/posts/trump-tapped-billy-long-to-head-up-the-irs-but-longs-only-tax-experience-seems-t/1152007802947749/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Nominated</a> as IRS head Billy Long, an aggressive salesman for a fraud-riddled tax credit, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/billy-long-irs-campaign-donations-00293051" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">received </a>donations after being nominated to clear old campaign debts. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Tapped <a href="https://www.cfodive.com/news/trump-taps-business-consultant-crypto-lobbyist-lead-sec/734648/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Paul Atkins</a>, a former crypto lobbyist, to lead the SEC.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/03/congress/trumps-inside-the-box-pick-to-run-tax-at-treasury-00196438" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Appointed</a> a former tax lobbyist, to lead tax policy.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed RFK Jr., who <a href="https://www.vox.com/health-care/397452/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing-elizabeth-warren" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">planned </a>to get paid for anti-vax lawsuits while heading up HHS.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed a top Pentagon official who led a firm <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/trump-stephen-feinberg-deputy-defence-secretary" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">invest</a>ing in defense contractors and has directed D-O-D to outsource as much as it can.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed someone who <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicare-advantage" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">lobbied</a> to privatize Medicare to lead OMB’s healthcare budget.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Installed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/technology/elon-musk-steve-davis-doge.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Steve Davis</a> to effectively lead DOGE while also leading a Musk company.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Installed another <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-musk-usaid.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">DOGE</a> leader to control Treasury’s payment system while still holding down his day job as a software CEO.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Handed power over crypto policy to a White House crypto czar who leads a venture capital firm that heavily <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/david-sacks-sold-200-million-in-crypto-holdings-before-taking-wh-job.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">invest</a>s in crypto.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Selected a <a href="https://accountable.us/more-conflicts-trump-border-czar-runs-firm-helping-secure-federal-contracts-for-homeland-security-clients/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">border czar</a> who led a firm that got tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts for homeland security companies.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed Treasury Secretary Bessent who is gutting the IRS so that it can’t audit rich tax cheats — he’s a tax-dodging mega-millionaire.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pardon-rod-blagojevich-2029014" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Pardoned</a> Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor convicted for corruption, after his vocal support for Trump.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/what-to-know-pardons-january-6-trump/index.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Pardoned</a> January 6 insurrectionists who tried to overturn an election he lost.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-michele-fiore-nevada-fraud-cf56ef8b302b8111e47cf52d5a606d19" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Pardoned</a> a Trump loyalist found guilty of wire fraud.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/04/28/trump-pardons-wealthy-tax-cheat-paul-walczak-with-ties-to-ashley-biden-diary-scandal-betsy-fago/83323718007/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Pardoned</a> the son of a longtime Republican donor.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-crypto/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Pardoned</a> a corporation that had been fined $100 million for money laundering.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-crypto-world-liberty-truth-social-etf-f11c47a99ea618aa06df4dd47b150800" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Launched </a>his own stablecoin while preparing to sign legislation that will help the stablecoin and let him oversee it. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Sold merch with presidential <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/17/us/politics/trump-conflicts-of-interest.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">branding</a>.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/binance-world-liberty-financial-crypto-deals-70c817c3" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Disbanded</a> DOJ’s crypto unit after business talks between Binance and a Trump-backed crypto company ramped up.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-trump-coins-civil-fraud-charges/index.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Halted</a> SEC enforcement actions against crypto companies that enriched Trump. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Met with crypto executives who are <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/binance-world-liberty-financial-crypto-deals-70c817c3" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">asking</a> Treasury to back off of oversight of their companies — all while exploring a deal to list a Trump-linked crypto company’s new stablecoin.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Maintained financial ties between Trump officials and Trump’s media company. That includes: FBI Director Kash Patel who was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-fbi-pick-share-award-trump-media-group-2025-2" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">gifted</a> a huge award of Trump media company stock.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Nominated Attorney General Bondi who <a href="https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/03-26-25-Trump-Nominees-DJT-TMTG-Divestment-Ethics-Pledge.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">owned </a>$2 million in DJT shares.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Paid the Education Secretary <a href="https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/03-26-25-Trump-Nominees-DJT-TMTG-Divestment-Ethics-Pledge.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">almost </a>$1 million in Trump Media company shares.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Intelligence Board nominees who have <a href="https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/03-26-25-Trump-Nominees-DJT-TMTG-Divestment-Ethics-Pledge.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">millions</a> in Trump Media company shares.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Selected a Special Envoy to the Middle East who wants to develop real estate in Gaza while <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-special-government-employees-75b2b6e5?mod=latest_headlines" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">running</a> his own real estate firm.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointed an FBI Director who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5124971-kash-patel-qatar-work-fbi-nomination/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">consulted </a>for the Qatari government.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Picked that FBI Director even though he also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/kash-patel-elite-depot-shein/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">received </a>millions from a Cayman Island holding company with ties to China.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Decided to cancel the Direct File program, which will help the bottom line of Intuit, which <a href="https://x.com/dlippman/status/1870500667934261612?s=46" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">gave </a>$1 million to Trump’s inauguration.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Took its <a href="https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/31799-pilgrims-pride-donated-5-million-to-trump-inauguration" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">largest</a> inauguration donation from a poultry company under DOJ scrutiny. After the donation, the SEC approved its parent company for the New York Stock Exchange.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/media/federal-prosecutors-drop-criminal-probe-vince-mcmahon/index.html#:~:text=Federal%20prosecutors%20have%20ended%20their,employees%2C%20his%20lawyer%20said%20Tuesday." style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Dropped a probe</a> into sexual misconduct allegations against Trump’s Education Secretary’s husband.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Hosted <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/tracking-trumps-visits-to-his-properties-and-other-conflicts-of-interest/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">dozens</a> of foreign, federal, and state officials at Mar-a-Lago, helping enrich Trump. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Hosted a GOP <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/house-republican-retreat-trump-national-doral/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">retreat</a> at another one of Trump’s resorts.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Circumvented the normal contracting process to pick a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-03-10/dhs-expedites-process-to-award-two-republican-linked-firms-part-of-its-200-million-ad-campaign" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">company </a>with close ties to Trump’s former campaign manager.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Awarded a $30 million ICE <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">contract</a> to Trump insider Peter Thiel.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-foreign-development-tracker/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Continued developing</a> new Trump properties overseas, including in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Hatched a plan for the State Department to pay Tesla <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">$400 million </a>dollars.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/major-corporate-interests-and-megadonors-gave-239-million-to-fund-trumps-inauguration.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Accepted</a> a $4 million inauguration donation from a GOP megadonor and nominated him as UK ambassador the same day.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">And Donald Trump took actions that could advance the personal interests of his co-president Elon Musk: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-trump-doge-conflicts-of-interest" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Fired</a> EEOC leaders investigating and suing Tesla.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Illegally <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">fired </a>the NLRB Chair, which filed a complaint against SpaceX.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/cfpb-layoffs-trump-musk-doge.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Gutted</a> CFPB staff and <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">fired </a>the Director after they investigated complaints against Musk’s companies.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/dol-halts-action-on-federal-contractor-discrimination-cases" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Gutted</a> the Department of Labor office investigating Tesla and Space X.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Fired the USAID Inspector General, who <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukraine-2027054" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">launched </a>a probe into satellite terminals made by Musk’s Starlink. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ede5b41d-4b97-494f-b8ce-4f13b11f9ad1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Targeted</a> the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration staff who were reportedly, quote, a “thorn in Tesla's side.”</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Said Musk would self-police his conflicts of interest. Yeah right…</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Pressured the Administrator of the FAA, which fined Musk’s SpaceX, <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-presses-musk-for-answers-on-his-role-in-resignation-of-faa-administrator" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">to resign </a>.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Permitted Musk to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-finances.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">keep </a>his financial disclosure hidden. I’ve got a new bill to fix that!</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Allowed Musk’s Starlink to start working with the FAA after Musk <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-traffic-control-failing-spacex/index.html#:~:text=Musk%20appeared%20to%20confirm%20the,oversees%20the%20operations%20of%20SpaceX." style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">criticized</a> the FAA’s air traffic telecom system. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Made Musk’s SpaceX the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">frontrunner </a>for a new lucrative Golden Dome contract.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Stood by Musk when his X executives <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-booker-senators-raise-alarm-about-reports-of-x-officials-leveraging-musks-government-position-to-drive-ad-revenue" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">told</a> an advertising firm to increase ad revenue — threatening that Musk could interfere with a pending merger.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Permitted Musk to join Trump's interview with the Air Force secretary nominee while SpaceX held billions of dollars in contracts with the Air Force. </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Permitted the National Transportation Safety Board to share news related to the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia only on Musk-owned X.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5245029-social-security-administration-social-platform-x-releases/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Permitted</a> the Social Security Administration to only share important public communication on X.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/doj-spacex-lawsuit-elon-musk-refugees-trump" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Dropped </a>DOJ’s anti-discrimination complaint against Musk’s SpaceX.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Fired FDA staffers <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-in-doge-employee-firings-reuters-reports.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">reviewing </a>Elon Musk’s Neuralink clinical trial applications.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">And for our closing six moves that make every bit of this corruption even harder to root out, Trump got rid of cops on the beat:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Fired 18 Inspectors General who make sure the federal agencies follow the law.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Fired the head of the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/federal-workforce-watchdog-who-was-fired-by-trump-drops-legal-fight-to-get-his-job-back-00215891" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Office of Special Counsel</a> who protects whistleblowers and makes sure that civil service laws are fired.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Fired</a> the head of the Office of Government Ethics who watches to see that the President and his Administration follow the laws on conflicts of interest, bribery and other ethics issues.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/doj-purges-prosecutors-january-6-cases-00201904" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Fired </a>DOJ prosecutors who worked on January 6th investigations.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/trump-office-of-legal-counsel-doj.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Sidelined</a> DOJ’s office that reviews the legality of executive orders.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-office-prosecutes-public-corruption-slashed-size-so-rcna195928" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(38,122,181);text-decoration-line:none">Gutted</a> DOJ’s office that prosecutes misconduct by public officials.</li></ol></div><div><br></div></div>