Awful: Senate investigations into Trump's solicitation of $1 billion from Big Oil and Jared Kushner's financial dealings with Saudis will now hit a wall with GOP control, Dems tell me. We're headed for unchecked elite corruption under Trump.
New piece:
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For many reasons, conditions are ripe for right wing elites to loot the place from top to bottom. Remember when Trump vowed to give Big Oil execs what they want in exchange for $1 billion in campaign funds? Now we'll likely never get to the bottom of it.
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“The next four years are going to be a smash and grab under Trump,” Sen Ron Wyden tells me, because “special interests who put Trump back in office expect a return on their investment."
His probe into Kushner's dealings will get much harder w/GOP control
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Saying Musk's role will only be advisory misses the point. Trump is sending message about what he'll give those who boost him.
“Trump is showing he will reward people who help him by giving them tremendous influence over his admin,” @NoahBookbinder says.
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Interesting suggestion from @NoahBookbinder: Trump's Truth Social gives wealthy investors a way of currying favor with him by buying stock, which would "quickly affect his net worth."
Needless to say, Trump won't divest, as he should.
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Underappreciated point: Trump's plan to purge civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists will create new avenues for corruption. Special interests can hijack rulemaking more easily and career people will be in less of a position to blow whistle.
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Trump is going to hoodwink pundits into writing that his presidency is "taking on the elite class," even as he sells off the government for parts to his right wing oligarchic elite cronies.
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