Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.
Monetizing his presidency further this summer, Trump’s Truth Social media business is pushing a new scheme that offers wealthy buyers special early access to his posts for a fee of $100,000 a month, which top Democrats and public interest groups say pose serious conflict of interest and corruption issues.
This is some of why at least some Americans probably wish the Iran plot succeeded
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men.
Trump is practically wasting all of our net gain and allowance just to procrastinate our civic regulations, have our privacy dismantled in high oligarchy enforcements and postpone all climate vulnerability and forestation sedimental deployment just to pressure out incriminatingly virulent fuel sources to our atmosphere.
He’s not governing, He’s dictating!!!
Actually outranked Hitler, Pinochet, and King Tarquin as the most inhumanely corrupt cretin ever put in leadership.
And yet his party of gutless and insecure terrorist grifters are not doing anything to contempt his crime streak.
GOP is officially pro corruption pro sectarianism and pro austerity
Was anyone surprised. Dude had a track record of swindling for decades prior to his presidency.
When people say that crypto has no use… they just sound ignorant, naive, etc.
But he DOESNT take a Salary!
-Free Thinking NOT GULLIBLE Republicans!
Just call them fucking stupid at this point. If you voted for a conman TWICE you’re a fucking idiot
A lot went three times.
I mean it’s technically not a salary if you steal money.
As far as I can tell republicans chose this life for all of us because they were upset that:
They had to wear a mask during covid. Gay people are allowed to be happy. Obama wore a tan suit that one time. Buttery emails.
So now we all get to live shit hole life’s because the crabs at the bottom of the bucket decided to yank everyone down with them and install a king.
If you vote republican, fuck you, genuinely.
You forgot
- They want to have sex with kids
Was it only republican politicians caught up in the Epstein files?
No but Trump will pardon the republicans
He has pardoned democrats in the past. Not many, but it’s happened.
Maybe this is why. Lol.
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Court records show more Republican politicians have been convicted of sexual offenses than Democrats. Since 2015, notable cases include Rep. Dennis Hastert ® pleading guilty to child molestation-related charges and Rep. Mel Reynolds ® convicted of sexual assault. On the Democrat side, fewer convictions exist—Rep. Bob Filner pleaded guilty to groping in 2013. Data leans heavier on Republicans historically. Check GovTrack for raw numbers.
I was thinking more about his pardons of Henry Cuellar, Rod Blagojevich, P.G. Sittenfeld, and Devon Archer who were all facing some sort of bribery or corrupt charges.
Yeah I’m sure the dems gonna fix all this if they ever get in “power” again. lmao.
There is no need to stress. The next Democratic President will issue blanket pardons, will no do investigations, or Presidential Commissions, or anything that sort.
The Epstein Class always protects each other.
Politicians have been doing the exact same thing as the pedoprez for the history of USA and they will continue to do so regardless of “party” branding.
“Now is the time for unity, and to forgive our neighbors” Says every Democrat after a Republican president.
“The Democrats are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp.” Says every Republican after a Democratic president.
“The
Democratsextreme left are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp.” Says everyRepublican after aDemocratic president.Also this.
A bellwether is whether the politician supports abolishing ICE. If they are willing to uproot institutions then that includes presidential immunity.
Sorry, no they won’t. They will be constrained by technicalities and obscure parliamentarian positions that we never heard of until a key issue.
However, they will have new tech and immunity to attack the progressive left. That won’t be an issue at all
He has set the precedent that presidents and their families can not only continue to run businesses while in office, but make governing decisions that lead to profit for those businesses. Oh, and getting payments for advertisements from the Resolute desk, and putting up paid advertisements on government property. Oh, and punish federal funding to states, companies, Universities, etc. for not following his executive orders, which are not laws, but are being treated as such.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.
He has set the precedentHe has done what a disgusting imperial system allows…FTFY
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.
If both parties are doing the same thing, nobody is every going to stop it. Just look at all of USA history. As a very obvious example, they’re all talking bribes (aka lobbies), doing insider trading, etc. Ofc they’re getting that crypto cash too… Nobody gonna fix any of this ever. It’s a feature not a bug to them.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office
If you think Ritchie Torres, Elissa Slotkin, and Pete Buttigieg are going to save the county, you’re going to be very disappointed.
They’re saying that no one will make a law against a Republican, but Republicans may make laws against Democrats. Of course, that also won’t happen if it means the GOP can continue to score bitching points with their base while also profitting, but still.
the GOP can continue to score bitching points with their base
The joke of the last 30 years has been the GOP crying “The media is against us!” through louder and larger corporate media megaphones with every passing election cycle.
But the punchline is that bitching about the media being mean is now a central function of federal government. Nothing fucking works because all the top leadership positions are occupied by professional whiners.
Pete absolutely would.
Nope. I believe a remedy is not coming and we are COOKED.
Yeah, but Bernie sanders, hunter Biden and Abdul El-Sayed will
Either I’m confused or perhaps you are. Bernie Sanders, while he happily had my vote a while back, is far past the need to retire. Hunter isn’t running for politics, and El-Sayed is behind in the polls. How are any of these people supposed to help?
El-Sayed is behind in the polls
I believe he won his primary
Right. Behind in the polls against the Republican candidate.
Talk to me about general election polling in October, when people are actually beginning to vote.
GOP Nominee Mike Rogers ran uncontested with near-zero negative press coverage, and he’s still in a dead heat. Voters “certain to vote” favor El-Sayed by the same margin voters “likely to vote” favor Rogers. So it’s functionally a toss-up.
hunter Biden
:-|
Trump is just the most corrupt president since Lyndon Johnson.
All that money and still an utterly worthless man.
So worthless you could say it is a negative value.
Likewise some analysts are troubled by how Trump has circumvented the constitution’s prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400m plane as a gift from Qatar, and how other wealthy foreigners have backed some Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad.
Doesn’t the constitution ban all emoluments?
Or is this just saying that the other reps are only outraged by accepting foreign bribes, because they all accept domestic bribes…
I mean . . . Yeah. We know. We’ve been watching it happen every goddamned day.
Thanks for the reminder Guardian. Maybe you could name and shame a little more? It’s not happening magically. People with names and institutions are doing this corruption, so. Map it out. kthx.
What the hell should they do?? Investigate and do journalism???
Personally I want them to tell me how Hunter biden’s penis caused all of this.
We should have never elected his peen
Then his wang should have stopped running around promising affordability and “no new wars” for the past decade.
Truetruetrue
I’m a rebel, Dottie. A loner.
I don’t make monkeys, I train them
Blows my mind that Americans are still expecting others to help them out of this. The responsibility rests solely in the people’s hands. Journalists have and are doing plenty. You don’t need more, yet you demand it.
Journalists have and are doing plenty.
For who???
an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by…expanding his Truth Social business and more
What? How does that make money? Is he selling sugar pills that claim to make your penis bigger or sth?
Edit:
Canter added that “Trump is increasingly dependent on the presidency to generate business profits since his media company has been losing money over the past several quarters.”
Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, on 10 August announced it lost a whopping $238m in the three months through June as it branched out into new businesses including crypto.
Oh, that sounds more correct
He’s selling early access to his tweets for money laundering and stock manipulation
“You too can enjoy the same insider access as Barron Trump for the low, low price of $100,000 a month!”
“But he doesn’t even take a salary!” -MAGA Morons
I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.
Don’t forget to take every last cent the family has. Literally leave them with nothing as punishment.
Agreed. Because they are not likely to serve full sentences; they should have to come out and live as paupers.
And then to die while in prison. He has to KNOW he lost. It’s not enough for him to just die. He needs to die in PRISON
I just want him to go away. Punished or not. Dead or alive. I don’t care, as long as I never have to read about him doing any more atrocities.
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How do any remaining supporters justify this?
They don’t, they will just scream ‘fake news!’
They only trust the news that reports the things they want to hear.
I think there’s others that think the things he does for the country are good. And they take the good with the bad. Like lowering taxes (even though mostly the rich benefitted from that). Or whatever the fuck DOGE claimed to do. Or brain worm measles you.
They believe that everyone does it, and that Trump is just better at it.
That’s why if you point out something corrupt they point to someone else who the think did something corrupt, instead of saying both should be investigated and punished if actually guilty.
Exactly: “Hunter Biden and his laptop! And Hunter sold art, can you even believe it? Hillary’s emails! Bill Clinton gets speaking fees, how is that even possible?”
Lol remember when Hillary’s emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.
Was it even weeks? Also, how many magaferbrainz even know about Signalgate, I wonder?
The double standard is criminal
Yeah the problem I have with it is I can’t tell how many of them are just excusing peoples crimes because others commit crimes or excusing their crimes because they would do the same thing if they could, and point to others doing potentially other crimes as a “well anyone would do it” type of shit. ,
“Look at what a good businessman he is!”
“If it was actually illegal, he’d be in prison!”
“He’s so savvy to not pay for things when payment is due. Why would you pay if you didn’t have to?”
“He’s made more money while president than any other president because he’s the first non-politician president.”
My personal favorite: “he donates his salary, that proves he isn’t in it to make money. That’s why we elected him!”
They don’t have to.
They’ll never hear about it, and will tell you it’s fake when you show them
Easy, if you weren’t such a mark and smart, you wouldn’t have this happen to you. They fully believe these actions are worth merit, even salvation.
The response you will get is “This is nothing new! Bill Clinton was worse…”
He’s GOD ,so 💩
They’re alarmed and yet nobody will do a damned thing to stop this crap . I’m so tired of this mess
Why stop something that they’re dying to do themselves ASAP?
