The level of corruption that has contaminated and compromised the White House, Congress, and even one of our Supreme Court Justices is unprecedented – and cannot be tolerated any longer.
Donald Trump is using the office of the presidency to enrich himself and his family, administration officials, and business partners like no other president in history ever dreamed of – everything from inaugural and White House ballroom fundraising bribes to pardon kickbacks to cryptocurrency sweeteners to Middle Eastern-funded golf tournaments and luxury jets. And Republicans in Congress are just sitting by letting it happen – which makes them as complicit as he is.
We would say the line between President Trump’s private business and the business of the American people is now completely blurred but, in truth, there is no longer even a line. Seriously, this is Putin-level depravity… but the difference is that Vladamir Putin doesn’t hold the levers to the most powerful country on earth.
President Trump has even demanded that the Justice Department pay him $230 million of taxpayer money to compensate him for the special counsel investigations into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign as well as the search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago – – a demand that may actually be granted since he installed his former defense lawyers for those very cases at the top of the U.S. Justice Department.
The president of the United States is also trying hard to use the power of his position to shield himself, his family, and their affiliated businesses from being investigated and/or audited on tax returns filed before May 18, 2026, giving them sweeping and unprecedented immunity from tax inquiries. This is a substantially lucrative gift to Donald Trump, because just one of those audits – one that he has been fighting since 2010 – could have cost him over $100 million.
This particular grift started in January 2026, when Donald Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion, alleging the agency failed to protect his private tax records after Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor from Booz Allen Hamilton, leaked the records to the press. Four months later, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and President Trump reached a “settlement agreement,” with the president agreeing to drop the lawsuit in exchange for the tax shield and, of course, an apology. < This “settlement deal” initially included the creation of a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate people who claim they are victims of political prosecutions – including those who stormed the Capitol on January 6th – but the administration dropped that plan after almost every single person in America who heard about it completely flipped out. That’s not to say, however, he won’t try to revive it. >
For her part, federal judge Kathleen M. Williams wasn’t having any of it, saying that Donald’s lawsuit was brought to “manipulate the judicial process to pursue benefits unavailable in litigation,” and ruling that his lawsuit against the IRS was an improper exercise in self-dealing.
Judge Williams also referred Alejandro Brito, the attorney who brought Donald’s case against the IRS, to Florida bar authorities to determine whether any disciplinary action is appropriate; ordered her ruling be forwarded to bar associations in New York and Washington to be considered in previously filed ethics complaints against Stanley Woodward – a top DOJ official who signed the paperwork creating the weaponization fund – and acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was previously one of Donald Trump’s personal attorneys; and banning Daniel Epstein, another Trump lawyer, from making court appearances in the Southern District of Florida for one year. She took special aim at Todd Blanche – who President Trump has nominated to be the permanent U.S. Attorney General – writing that she was “extremely troubled” by testimony he gave to the U.S. Senate, where at least one of his answers was “at best, misleading and, at worst, disingenuous.”
Of the entire debacle, Judge Williams wrote, “This was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.” She continued, “Whatever may be the parties’ wishes, inclinations or the dictates of their passion, they cannot alter the state of the facts or evade the rule of law.”
Unlike presidents and their families before him – Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ’s wife, transferred her radio and television stations into a trust controlled by an independent attorney; Jimmy Carter turned over the operation of his beloved peanut farm to an independent trustee; President Reagan liquidated his stock holdings; and George W. Bush sold his stake in the Texas Rangers baseball team – President Trump refused in his first and second terms to put his assets into blind trusts or broadly diversify them to avoid conflicts-of-interests (his investments, assets and business interests are held in a revocable trust, which is not the same thing as a blind trust).
At the beginning of his first term, President Trump and his family announced they would not do any new international business deals –even though lots of foreign governments and lobbyists still spent plenty of money at Trump hotels and their other spots. However, at the beginning of his second term, he made clear he and his family would not refrain from personally participating in any new global business deals because, as he told The New York Times, when they did so during his first term no one appreciated it: “I prohibited them from doing business in my first term, and I got absolutely no credit for it. I didn’t have to do that. And it’s really unfair to them. I found out that nobody cared, and I’m allowed to.” His son Eric put it this way in late 2024: “The first term we did everything imaginable to avoid any appearance of impropriety, and frankly, we got crushed anyway,” adding that the presidency had cost his father “an absolute fortune.” “We can’t just sit out in perpetuity,” he continued, “and I won’t.”
As a result, the intermingling of Donald Trump’s politics and profitmaking is staggering, allowing the president and those in his orbit to benefit not only because of their proximity to power, but also from heavily investing in industries the federal government oversees and regulates and that the Trump/Vance administration champions. From A.I. to cryptocurrency to financial products to fusion-power deals to rare earth minerals to communications, the president of the United States is heavily invested in companies whose businesses are directly affected by policies he is making… actively trading in stocks while making decisions that directly influence the value of those stocks.
… and it’s not like President Trump even tries to keep all this under wraps. Any time his staff tries desperately to throw everyone off the scent, he almost immediately undercuts them – like the time in May 2025 when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was saying, “I think everybody, the American public, believe it’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency” just as President Trump was posting, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE” at a Saudi-backed golf tournament kicked off at Trump National Doral in Florida.
In May 2026, President Trump filed his Periodic Transaction Report (Form 278-T) detailing hundreds of millions of dollars traded through 3,642 transactions during the first quarter of 2026. One month later, his broader Annual Financial Disclosure was released, a 927-page report that disclosed over 20,000+ trades across 2025, an average of over 50 trades a day.
Donald Trump reported over $2.2 billion in revenue for 2025. This was a huge jump from 2024, when, of course, he wasn’t president. His total revenue in 2024 was $622 million. This means that revenue in Donald Trump’s first year back in office increased by over 250 percent.
According to The Wall Street Journal, this included $575 million in real estate deals, including an increase of $50 million (2024) to $77 million (2025) from Mar-a-Lago, probably because it’s the go-to place to kiss up to him; $68.6 million in royalites and licensing fees; $79.3 million for things like uncharacterized income, pensions, etc.; and $86.5 million in settlements, mainly from media and tech firms like CBS, ABC, Paramount and Meta.
DIRECT CORRUPTION LINK: These settlements came at a time 1) when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr was threatening to revoke the licenses of broadcasters like ABC News (which Donald Trump had sued, along with its anchor George Stephanopoulos, for defamation a year earlier) and CBS (which was being sued by Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris that he claimed used “deceitful editing” to help her and hurt his campaign), and 2) several corporate mergers, like Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media, which required approval from the FCC.
Then there’s Trump Media & Technology Group, his own publicly traded social media company, which owns and operates the Truth Social platform. While it’s true that, right before the 2024 presidential election, a sudden stock market crash in the company wiped out $2.4 billion in paper wealth from Donald Trump’s personal stake in just three days, the value of his stake as of June 2026 was still around $875 million.
DIRECT CORRUPTION LINK: Because President Trump uses his Truth Social feed as a direct communication channel to make major policy announcements, control the national agenda, and bypass traditional media, sophisticated traders watch it like hawks, even creating automated systems to monitor the feed so they can react quickly to his comments and take immediate action, such as buying big or canceling positions. Certainly nothing wrong with that!
But naturally, our grifter president had to turn this into something self-serving and super shady. Now, through a new product called “Truth API,” Truth Social is selling stock market traders faster access to the president’s posts for $100,000-a-month, or $60,000 a month if they commit for multiple years. < You have GOT to be kidding us with this. It is INSANE that we are allowing this, America. >
There is no question this gives traders a huge advantage, A Wall Street Journal analysis of trading data shows “how quickly some traders have pounced on the president’s online comments. In the minute following two of Trump’s posts about Iran < in June 2026 >, investors traded more than 2 million shares, according to data from Data Transmission Network (DTN). These trades caused swings of more than 2 percent in almost two dozen energy and industrial stocks.”
From the WSJ: “On June 9th, the president posted at 12:38 p.m. that Iran had shot down an Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, adding, ‘The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.’ Trading in energy stocks spiked almost immediately, pushing share prices up.”
“Two days later, the president said in a post that he was canceling strikes scheduled for that evening because negotiations were proceeding with Iran. He hinted that a long-term peace deal could be in reach. ‘Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly,’ Trump wrote. This time, the instant reaction triggered a steep fall in energy and defense-related share prices.”
Mark our words, this is going to get lots of people in lots of big trouble. Already, the sheer volume of mysterious trades that have accumulated across markets during the Iran war have sparked increased scrutiny by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which is investigating a surge in oil futures trading that took place just before President Trump postponed strikes on Iran in March 2026. Multiple firms are part of the CFTC’s inquiry, as they try to assess whether an insider with prior knowledge of the president’s March 23 post traded on that information or leaked it to someone who did.
From the WSJ again: “Moments before President Trump postponed strikes on Tehran’s energy infrastructure in a morning social media post on March 23, a spasm of trades hit the market during off-hours. More than $800 million worth of U.S. and international oil futures changed hands in a matter of minutes, according to London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data. The traders on the right side of those well-timed bets profited when U.S. oil prices fell as much as 13 percent in the wake of Trump’s change of heart. At least five firms posted gains of $5 million or more on crude futures they bought and sold that day, as measured by average prices adjusted for volume. The CFTC is looking into several other instances of suspicious trading regarding Iran-related announcements in April and May… On May 6, in one of those surges in volume, roughly $700 million of crude futures changed hands about an hour before a report on talks to end the Iran war, according to Dow Jones Market Data.”
Some people have already gotten into – or are on their way to – serious trouble. Bubblemaps, a crypto-analytics firm, said it found “six suspected insiders” who had made $1.2 million wagering on a U.S. strike on Iran through the prediction platform Polymarket. Most of those six bet that a strike would take place by February 28th, which turned out to be the exact date. One account bet just $26,000 but won over $200,000, a return of over 657 percent. In March 2026, three accounts on Polymarket made over $600,000 by correctly betting on a U.S.-Iran cease-fire. The accounts in question started buying cease-fire contracts in late March and early April, during a time when traders assessed the chances of a truce at less than 35 percent.
Polymarket and Kalshi, another online prediction market, were already under scrutiny after traders made a number of profitable wagers on controversial – and many say, unethical – events, including short-term wagers that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be out of power before his death (Kalshi, a U.S.-regulated entity that doesn’t allow bets on wars or assassinations, refunded $2.2 million in fees and payments for the Khamenei bets).
Who, you may ask, are the people on the other side of these bets? In April 2026, the feds charged a master sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces – who happened to take part in the planning and execution of the mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro – with using classified information to profit over $400,000 from betting on the timing and outcome of the Venezuela operation on Polymarket.
In July, a guy who has been operating Donald Trump’s teleprompter since 2016 came under investigation after allegedly using his inside knowledge to make $100,000 betting on what the president would say in public addresses on Kalshi. Kalshi’s lawyer and head of enforcement said on social media that the “Kalshi surveillance team promptly flagged, investigated and referred these trades” to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.”
Also in July, former congressman George Santos – who was pardoned by President Trump after being kicked out of Congress for pleading guilty to federal wire fraud and identity theft charges – agreed to pay $35,000 and to a three-year trading ban to settle an investigation into his dubious trades on Kalshi after he bet against his own plans to attend President Trump’s State of the Union (the Commodity Futures Trading Commission says he made $17,000 from the trade).
Jeez. We're exhausted. Could there possibly be more?