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Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History

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  Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-10 13:10 +0000
    Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-14 13:05 +0000
      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 00:17 +0000
        Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 14:55 +0000
          Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-17 19:50 +0000
            Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 12:50 +0000
              Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-23 12:20 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 23:59 -0600
                  Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-30 12:55 +0000
                    Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-01 07:15 -0400
                      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:25 +0000
                        Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2025-05-01 15:15 +0000
                          Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-05-01 08:56 -0700
                      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:26 +0000
                        Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-02 07:04 -0400
                          Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-02 22:38 +0000
                            Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-03 09:14 -0400
                              Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-05 22:19 +0000
                                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-08 13:36 +0000
                                  Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-09 07:36 -0400
                                    Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-11 12:29 +0000
                                      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-17 12:02 +0000
                                        Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-27 11:04 +0000
              Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-04-23 09:33 -0700
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 19:51 +0000
                  Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History J Carlson <j_carlson@gmx.com> - 2025-04-23 12:56 -0700
                    Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-24 20:06 +0000
                      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-29 19:11 +0000

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#1180850 — Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-10 13:10 +0000
Subject	Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History
Message-ID	<vt8g07$149$2@reader1.panix.com>

 | 
 | Senator Adam Schiff on Wednesday called on Congress to
 | investigate whether President Donald Trump engaged in
 | insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly
 | paused a sweeping set of tariffs, a move that sent stock
 | prices skyrocketing.
 | ...
<https://time.com/7276234/trump-tariff-insider-trading-schiff/>

    --bks

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#1181398

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-14 13:05 +0000
Message-ID	<vtj177$kbk$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1180850

 | 
 | Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal
 | Enforcement
 | 
 | Justice Department backs away from some cases involving
 | foreign bribery, money laundering and crypto markets;
 | defense lawyers brace for slowdown
 | ...
<https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-doj-white-collar-law-enforcement-4d27b06d>

    --bks

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#1181592

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-16 00:17 +0000
Message-ID	<vtmstt$ht2$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1181398

> | Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal
> | Enforcement

 | 
 | Kleptocracy, Inc.
 | 
 | Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the
 | system.
 | ... 
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34ayvhDI7RVUDRSgLkNluMk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share>

    --bks

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#1181682

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-16 14:55 +0000
Message-ID	<vtogds$rd2$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1181592

>> | Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal
>> | Enforcement

> | Kleptocracy, Inc.

 | 
 | Trump IRS Pick Was Just Enriched By Tax Schemers
 | 
 | New documents show Billy Long's $130,000 personal debt was
 | suddenly paid off by donors at firms policed by the tax
 | agency he'd lead.
 | ...
<https://www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pick-was-just-enriched-by-tax-schemers/>

    --bks

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#1181900

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-17 19:50 +0000
Message-ID	<vtrm2p$qrd$3@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1181682

>>> | Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal
>>> | Enforcement

>> | Kleptocracy, Inc.

> | Trump IRS Pick Was Just Enriched By Tax Schemers

 | 
 | Trump appointee asked IRS to review audit of MyPillow CEO
 | Mike Lindell
 | 
 | Experts say the outreach on behalf of a Trump political
 | ally is highly unusual and represents a change in how
 | political appointees engage with the tax agency.
 | ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/17/lindell-irs-audit/>

    --bks

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#1182847

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-23 12:50 +0000
Message-ID	<vuanm9$4ve$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1181900

 | ... 
 | First -- and why aren't more people saying this? -- what
 | the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a
 | closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that
 | hadn't yet been officially announced? Isn't that a setup
 | for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that
 | conference surely made market bets before Bessent's remarks
 | became public.
 | 
 | And since when are major policy announcements by government
 | officials made off the record to closed private-sector
 | meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing
 | policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the
 | fact?
 | 
 | The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even
 | doing at this event? Senior government officials aren't
 | supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their
 | clients.
 | ...
<https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos>

    --bks

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#1182872

From	Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Date	2025-04-23 12:20 -0400
Message-ID	<vub409$3ei2t$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to	#1182847

Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> | First -- and why aren't more people saying this? -- what
> | the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a
> | closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that
> | hadn't yet been officially announced? Isn't that a setup
> | for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that
> | conference surely made market bets before Bessent's remarks
> | became public.
> | 
> | And since when are major policy announcements by government
> | officials made off the record to closed private-sector
> | meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing
> | policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the
> | fact?
> | 
> | The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even
> | doing at this event? Senior government officials aren't
> | supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their
> | clients.
> | ...
> <https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos>

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

    Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and
    most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". It
    permanently damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, already
    hurt by its handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's
    1922 veto of the Bonus Bill.

    Congress subsequently passed permanent legislation granting itself subpoena
    power over tax records of any U.S. citizen, regardless of position.
    These laws are also considered to have empowered Congress generally.

-- 
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending
your left leg, it's modern architecture.
		-- Nancy Banks Smith

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#1183817

From	Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Date	2025-04-29 23:59 -0600
Message-ID	<vuse7t$3k1u9$7@dont-email.me>
In reply to	#1182872

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>> | First -- and why aren't more people saying this? -- what
>> | the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a
>> | closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that
>> | hadn't yet been officially announced? Isn't that a setup
>> | for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that
>> | conference surely made market bets before Bessent's remarks
>> | became public.
>> |
>> | And since when are major policy announcements by government
>> | officials made off the record to closed private-sector
>> | meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing
>> | policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the
>> | fact?
>> |
>> | The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even
>> | doing at this event? Senior government officials aren't
>> | supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their
>> | clients.
>> <https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos>
> 
>      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
> 
>      Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and
>      most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". It

Also a republican scandal.

>      permanently damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, already
>      hurt by its handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's
>      1922 veto of the Bonus Bill.
> 
>      Congress subsequently passed permanent legislation granting itself subpoena
>      power over tax records of any U.S. citizen, regardless of position.
>      These laws are also considered to have empowered Congress generally.
>

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#1183869

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-04-30 12:55 +0000
Message-ID	<vut6kj$9hl$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1183817

 | 
 | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy
 | Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm
 | 
 | World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary
 | between private enterprise and government policy in ways
 | without precedent in modern American history.
 | ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.0BVl.BB1df1DOQGkU>

    --bks

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#1183969

From	NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Date	2025-05-01 07:15 -0400
Message-ID	<9ul61klq9qb2i7iqpkuuf4lknn7nogb8sh@4ax.com>
In reply to	#1183869

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:55:47 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

> | 
> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy
> | Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm
> | 
> | World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary
> | between private enterprise and government policy in ways
> | without precedent in modern American history.
> | ...
><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.0BVl.BB1df1DOQGkU>
>
>    --bks

Paywalled trash.

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#1183978

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-05-01 12:25 +0000
Message-ID	<vuvp7g$f45$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1183969

Kremlin Girl  <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> ...
>> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy
>> | Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm
>> | 
>> | World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary
>> | between private enterprise and government policy in ways
>> | without precedent in modern American history.
>> | ...
>><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.0BVl.BB1df1DOQGkU>
>
>Paywalled trash.

Har! Link given jumps over the paywall, Russian troll.

    --bks

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#1184005

From	Creon <creon@creon.earth>
Date	2025-05-01 15:15 +0000
Message-ID	<m7hhflF5tqnU5@mid.individual.net>
In reply to	#1183978

On Thu, 1 May 2025 12:25:20 -0000 (UTC), Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

> Kremlin Girl  <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy | Changes:
>>> The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm |
>>> | World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary | between
>>> private enterprise and government policy in ways | without precedent
>>> in modern American history.
>>> | ...
>>><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-
liberty-financial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.0BVl.BB1df1DOQGkU>
>>
>>Paywalled trash.
> 
> Har! Link given jumps over the paywall, Russian troll.
> 
>     --bks

Just marked down Kremlin Girl in my Scorefile...easier
to skip over her Russki blather that way.

(Score: -666)

If she _isn't_ a Russian troll, she sure acts like one.

-- 
-c System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.14.4 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
   "Camera men on strike, Slides at 11."

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#1184014

From	Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con>
Date	2025-05-01 08:56 -0700
Message-ID	<DQMQP.3$xXC6.1@fx01.iad>
In reply to	#1184005

On 5/1/2025 8:15 AM, Creon wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2025 12:25:20 -0000 (UTC), Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
> 
>> Kremlin Girl  <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy | Changes:
>>>> The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm |
>>>> | World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary | between
>>>> private enterprise and government policy in ways | without precedent
>>>> in modern American history.
>>>> | ...
>>>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-
> liberty-financial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.0BVl.BB1df1DOQGkU>
>>>
>>> Paywalled trash.
>>
>> Har! Link given jumps over the paywall, Russian troll.
>>
>>      --bks
> 
> Just marked down Kremlin Girl in my Scorefile...easier
> to skip over her Russki blather that way.
> 
> (Score: -666)
> 
> If she _isn't_ a Russian troll, she sure acts like one.

Because she is one.

-- 
Every Republiscum/QAnon accusation is, in fact, a confession

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#1183979

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-05-01 12:26 +0000
Message-ID	<vuvp94$f45$3@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1183969

>> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy
>> | Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm

 | 
 | Trump's Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal
 | Waiting to Happen
 | 
 | The largest investors in Donald Trump's crypto coin have
 | been promised a private audience with the president. The
 | arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution
 | and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say.
 | ... 
<https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-quest-for-crypto-riches-is-a-constitutional-scandal-waiting-to-happen/>

    --bks

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#1184115

From	NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Date	2025-05-02 07:04 -0400
Message-ID	<gl991khgqulvqp68dphe1l7m6001pim72q@4ax.com>
In reply to	#1183979

On Thu, 1 May 2025 12:26:13 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

>>> | Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy
>>> | Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm
>
> | 
> | Trump's Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal
> | Waiting to Happen
> | 
> | The largest investors in Donald Trump's crypto coin have
> | been promised a private audience with the president. The
> | arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution
> | and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say.
> | ... 
><https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-quest-for-crypto-riches-is-a-constitutional-scandal-waiting-to-happen/>
>
>    --bks

Sources say.

Laughter.

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#1184172

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-05-02 22:38 +0000
Message-ID	<vv3hgn$fsa$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1184115

 | 
 | Trump's Space Budget Reflects Influence of Elon Musk and
 | SpaceX
 | 
 | SpaceX, already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon
 | contractors, could win billions of dollars in new contracts
 | if President Trump's budget proposal is approved by
 | Congress.
 | ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/elon-musk-spacex-trump-budget.html>

    --bks

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#1184257

From	NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Date	2025-05-03 09:14 -0400
Message-ID	<ek5c1k192vuvuugs0kg2kgb0qdhabbip2g@4ax.com>
In reply to	#1184172

On Fri, 2 May 2025 22:38:15 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

> | 
> | Trump's Space Budget Reflects Influence of Elon Musk and
> | SpaceX
> | 
> | SpaceX, already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon
> | contractors, could win billions of dollars in new contracts
> | if President Trump's budget proposal is approved by
> | Congress.
> | ...
><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/elon-musk-spacex-trump-budget.html>
>
>    --bks

Paywalled garbage noted.

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#1184552

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-05-05 22:19 +0000
Message-ID	<vvbdhi$pu9$4@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1184257

 | 
 | Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for
 | Investigation
 | ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-crypto-senate-investigation.html>

    --bks

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#1184831

From	bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Date	2025-05-08 13:36 +0000
Message-ID	<vvic1q$qco$2@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#1184552

> | Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for
> | Investigation

Demented Trump got played:
 | 
 | From Trump whisperer to West Wing pariah: What went wrong
 | for lobbyist Brian Ballard
 | 
 | After a March incident at Mar-A-Lago involving
 | cryptocurrency and a Truth Social post, the White House
 | turns on a well-known political fixer.
 | ... 
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/ballard-trump-wiles-lobbyist-00333953>

    --bks

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#1184985

From	NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Date	2025-05-09 07:36 -0400
Message-ID	<p4qr1kp0qkvr7klnfmijhno4u0bqt567nu@4ax.com>
In reply to	#1184831

On Thu, 8 May 2025 13:36:58 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

>> | Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for
>> | Investigation
>
>Demented Trump got played:
> | 
> | From Trump whisperer to West Wing pariah: What went wrong
> | for lobbyist Brian Ballard
> | 
> | After a March incident at Mar-A-Lago involving
> | cryptocurrency and a Truth Social post, the White House
> | turns on a well-known political fixer.
> | ... 
><https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/ballard-trump-wiles-lobbyist-00333953>
>
>    --bks

This could be a new record in speculation and "sources say".

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