Monday, December 01, 2025

All the President’s Millions

How the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case.

Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon.

Posted by Corky at 03:19 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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All have one thing in common: they appear to be connected to the Trump family's campaign to amass riches around the world.

Since Donald Trump's re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder. What is less understood " and perhaps even more dangerous " is the damage this is doing everywhere else.

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"But Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W Bush who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project, is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a "pay to play" system that benefits those who do business with the president's family.

Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: "Trump has made authoritarians' wildest dreams come true."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-01 03:20 PM

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-01 03:37 PM

"Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and sometime diplomatic envoy, said recently:

"What people call conflicts of interests ... I call experience and trusted relationships that we have throughout the world."

The Saudis have given his fund billions."

from the article

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-01 03:49 PM

"trusted relationships..."

Translation: MBS expects more lists of Saudi spies.

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-01 03:52 PM

I call experience and trusted relationships that we have throughout the world.

Like the US ambassador to France? His dad? Whose previous position was Prison?

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-01 03:57 PM

More datapoints on this revolting good-for-nothing caviar-enjoying oligarchic harami who never worked a day in his life and flies around the world in uber-First Class while we are getting clobbered by the effects of the Big Beautiful Bill.

And the USG wants to execute poor Luigi Mangione.

Link: www.abc.net.au

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-01 04:09 PM

I've been enjoying Ken Burns new, "The American Revolution"... which may well be seen as what happens when Empires decide to divvy up the world.

Some people are going to balk at the whole idea.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-01 04:14 PM

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