Trump Regime: Corruption

May 28, 2026 | Your tax dollars have never been wasted like this.

"'Trump Has Engaged in Corruption More Than Other Presidents' as 'Slush Fund' Criticism Mounts

May 26, 2026 | US President Donald Trump's administration has announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund for Americans deemed to be victims of political "weaponization," like January 6 Capitol riot defendants. But the announcement has brought in a lawsuit from a coalition of Trump critics adding to mounting backlash over the fund, seen as an additional act of corruption. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert looks at why.

Trump reeks of corruption, How can Americans tolerate this? — © Mark Alexander

Emily Galvin Almanza on Trump’s $1.8 Billion Criminal ‘Slush Fund’ of Corruption

May 25, 2026 | Public defender & author, Emily Galvin Almanza, joins Anthony Davis to discuss Trump’s $1.8 billion criminal ‘slush fund’ of corruption whilst working people struggle with the escalating cost of living due to his perilous foreign policies - only on The Weekend Show.

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Trump’s Breath-taking Corruption is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before

May 22, 2026 | Trump’s crime spree continues—and it seems as if he’s going for a new high score. This week we learned about Trump’s hyperactive stock activity (and alleged attempts to manipulate markets to boost the value of companies he invested in) and got a first-hand look at how tinpot dictators bleed their countries dry after Trump announced his own IRS would pay $1.8 billion to insurrectionist criminals and refrain from ever auditing him or his crooked family ever again.

In this video we look at some of the ways Trump has used the office of the presidency to shamelessly enrich himself and his family.


Very strong language alert!

Why the Breath Is Leaving Trump's Regime | Steve Schmidt

May 22, 2026 | Trump's political collapse is accelerating, his approval is cratering, and the most despicable Congress in American history will fall in November. This Memorial Day weekend, Steve Schmidt declares the beginning of a summer that will bring the end of MAGA.

Trump STINKS of CORRUPTION! How much longer are Americans going to tolerate this S***? Enough is enough! Don’t just lie down and play dead: Do something about it! This man is STEALING innocent, hard-working Americans’ tax dollars, their hard-earned money. — © Mark Alexander

Trump’s Corruption Scandal Just Exploded

May 21, 2026 | Trump’s new financial disclosure shows thousands of individual stock trades in companies affected by his administration’s policies, raising serious questions about conflicts of interest, transparency, and whether he personally knew what was in his portfolio. Farron Cousins breaks this down.

So why are Americans tolerating Trump’s corruption? — © Mark Alexander

Trump Makes His Most Brazenly Corrupt Move Ever, Blabs About Ballroom & Backs Off Iran Deadline

May 20, 2026 | Trump began his day with a preview of his big, beautiful billion dollar ballroom, it was another awko taco Tuesday in the Middle East as Trump backed off his deadline at the last minute again, a strong majority of Americans are against the war according to every poll, Trump has now made what might be the most brazenly corrupt move ever by a President of the United States, Trump’s former personal attorney and current Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was grilled today about it by the Senate Appropriations Committee, Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding that was scheduled to be at the White House has had a change of venue, over the first quarter of the year Trump has benefited from thousands of personal stock trades for as much as $750 million, and Elon Musk is attacking Christopher Nolan for his casting of the movie The Odyssey.

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s IRS settlement: ‘Most brazenly corrupt move by any president ever’: Late-night hosts discussed the president’s lawsuit against his own government and his latest ballroom updates »

Steve Schmidt: Trump's Corruption Will Drown America

May 20, 2026 | Donald Trump's corruption has become an open fire hydrant. Steve Schmidt breaks down Trump’s tax grift, Todd Blanche's contempt for the law, and warns it will continue until Americans make it stop.

Were America to be a person, one would say—with justification—that that person was committing slow suicide. But even though America is not a person, it can still be said to be committing suicide. Countries and empires can commit suicide, too. Especially when they enter self-destruct mode.

The US has enjoyed hegemonic status since 1945, since the end of World War II. This is because the war had destroyed the economies of Europe and of Asia, so America, relatively untouched as it was, was able to assume that pre-eminent role in the world. Especially because its GDP was equivalent of about the GDP of half of the rest of the world at that time, and especially because America possessed the strongest military. As a result, whenever the US commanded something, much of the rest of the world snapped to.

That was then; that was before the era of Trump. But this is now; and this is the era of Trump. So, everything has changed — for the worse. In a very short period of time, America has already started losing its pre-eminent position in the world. It is also in debt. Its debt is astronomical, standing as I write this at $39 trillion!

Trump is spending the nations’ money like a drunken sailor. He is engaged in an illegal and quite unnecessary war with Iran which has been costing the nation between one and two billion dollar a day! Trump insists that the federal government cannot afford universal healthcare for Americans, and nor can it afford to lift the millions of homeless poor out of their misery. But the nation can afford tax breaks for the superrich and it can afford to finance the killing machine. Such strange priorities for a country!

One doesn’t need a doctorate in rocket science to be able to say that this state of affairs is unsustainable. A nation, nay empire, that behaves in this corrupt, self-destructing manner will not be an empire for much longer. The shifting of hegemonic status will shift surely, but inexorably to the next emerging superpower.

We are living at a time of great, historic change. — © Mark Alexander

Democracy Now! "Dictatorship in Action": David Cay Johnston on $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

May 20, 2026 | In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Justice Department issued a memo Tuesday saying the IRS is "forever barred" from investigating past tax returns of President Trump, his family, company and "related companies." It came just a day after the department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund to "compensate" people prosecuted for supposedly political reasons by the Biden and Obama administrations — a move expected to benefit January 6 insurrectionists, other Trump allies and even Trump himself. It's all part of an agreement between the Department of Justice and President Trump's personal attorneys in exchange for Trump dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Trump's former personal attorney — will appoint the commission overseeing the Justice Department's new fund.

"This is dictatorship in action," says reporter David Cay Johnston. He calls the "anti-weaponization" fund "a slush fund to pay a criminal enforcement arm, a violent arm of Trump supporters to intimidate people" and says the order to not investigate the Trump family's dealings "screams that Donald Trump is, in fact, a criminal-level tax cheat."


As I stated below: Trump’s presidency is nothing but a SHITSHOW! This slush fund underscores my point perfectly. — © Mark Alexander

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Trump Says He’s Gonna Cash In from "Weaponization" Slush Fund

May 19, 2026

Strong language alert!

The political system in America must be very, very weak and flawed that a man like this, a committed felon and sex offender, can be elected and even re-elected to the highest office in the land, and can, as a result, hold the whole nation to ransom and in so doing take the American public to the cleaners in order to line his own, his family’s, and his cronies’ pockets, enriching each and every one of them one billion at a time!

It can be said that such a country is run by a mafia, the leader of which, número uno, is Mafioso-in-Chief! Further, there is but one thing that such a country can be compared to, and that is a banana republic! Forget being the world’s hegemon. Inevitably, that title is being increasingly adopted and quickly earned by a fast-growing and more stable nation: China. A country, of course, which is very much in the ascendancy, — © Mark Alexander

Steve Schmidt: Trump Will Answer for This

May 19, 2026 | While Pete Hegseth campaigns to destroy Thomas Massie, Trump will hand $1.8 billion of your tax dollars to the January 6th insurrectionists. Steve Schmidt breaks down how Trump's family has cashed in on their corruption while Americans have been cashed out.

Trump is a BLOODY DISGRACE! — © Mark Alexander

"Staggering Corruption": Rep. Raskin on Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business

May 18, 2026 | Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. This comes amid reports that Trump's Department of Justice was considering settling the case in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate victims of so-called weaponization of the DOJ under the Biden and Obama administrations. Trump allies who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol could file claims and be compensated.

"They want a $1.7 billion slush fund, which comes to a million dollars a head in terms of Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the insurrectionists, with $100 million left over of taxpayer money to spread around in different ways," says Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who spoke with Democracy Now! shortly before news broke of Trump dropping the IRS lawsuit.

Raskin last week introduced the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which is geared toward curbing the president's profiteering from public office. "Corruption is the whole purpose of the Trump administration," says Raskin. "It's not like some eccentric peripheral thing; it's a vast money-making operation."


Trump and his cronies are rotten to their core. It defies belief that the American people put up with this CRAP! — © Mark Alexander

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Rob Groves: The Crypto Billions behind Farage & Reform UK

May 16, 2026 | Nigel Farage is under formal investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner after it emerged that Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne secretly handed him a £5 million personal gift. Just before Farage reversed his decision and stood for Parliament in 2024. He never declared it. But this isn't just a Farage story. Harborne has a remarkable track record of donating to right-wing British politicians and watching government money flow back toward his business interests. He gave Boris Johnson a million pounds, and two months later, Johnson's government handed an £80m MoD contract to a defence company where Harborne was the largest shareholder. His total donations to Reform UK now exceed £22 million. That's roughly two-thirds of everything the party has ever raised. And the timeline of Farage's sudden conversion to cryptocurrency evangelism tells its own story.

Jesse Dollemore: Trump Sets Up Taxpayer Slush Fund to Pay for Private Insurrectionist Army

May 15, 2026

Why Americans didn’t do the right thing and put that despicable man in the slammer when they had the chance to do so is totally beyond my comprehension! The felon is ruining a once admired nation. — © Mark Alexander

Steve Schmidt: The Real Cost of Trump’s Political Machine

May 15, 2026 | Donald Trump’s proposed $1.7 billion slush fund deal with the IRS, at taxpayers' expense, for January 6 defendants and questions around Jared Kushner’s foreign dealings reinforce the never-before-seen in American history corruption. Steve Schmidt breaks down the allegations, arguing they reflect broader abuse of power and personal enrichment during Trump’s presidency.

Is Donald Trump the Most Corrupt President in US History?

May 11, 2026 | Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in US history. That’s the accusation levelled at the 47th President with as much vigour as it has been rejected by the White House.

A stream of billion-dollar real estate deals, accusations of wars for oil, suspect ties with Tech Bro’s, interests in crypto currency and even nuclear fusion means Donald Trump's critics say he’s trampling over the US constitution while lining his pockets. His allies call it fake news - a symptom of Trump derangement syndrome.

Sangita Myska brings together the evidence, so you can make up your own mind.


How Americans can put up with this level of corruption is beyond my comprehension. Trump and his chumps are taking the longsuffering American electorate to the cleaners! It is high time that they found it within themselves to resist this corruption, to put an end to it. Trump and his chumps belong in the slammer! — © Mark Alexander

Viktor Orbán has FLED Hungary for MAGA America

May 3, 2026 | What do you think of Viktor Orbán bailing on Hungary and fleeing to the US to escape likely conviction by the incoming Magyar governmnet?

Orbán, Trump, MAGA, and many other shysters are all of the same ilk. Birds of a feather and all that... They should all be in clink. — © Mark Alexander

Trump Will Be Enjoying His Demise, Because He Is Profiting From It

April 23, 2026 | How is Barron Trump, with learning difficulties, suddenly worth $120m? asks The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal. He's cashing in, like others around his father raking in billions, from insider knowledge and trading

Trump Holds the American People in Total Contempt

THE NEW YORK TIMES — OPINION: To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a “bomb.” That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.

So it goes for Trump’s corruption, which is so vast as to be a new phenomenon in American politics. The president and his family have leveraged his office to the tune of nearly $4 billion. They have received hundreds of millions of dollars from a network of branded cryptocurrency assets. Investors include large corporations, foreign nationals and state actors hoping to curry favor with the administration.

One such actor, according to The Wall Street Journal, was Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brother and national security adviser to the president the United Arab Emirates. Tahnoon’s investment fund purchased a half-billion-dollar stake in the Trump family’s crypto fund, World Liberty Financial, just days before Trump’s second inauguration. Tahnoon has since successfully lobbied the White House for U.A.E. access to America’s most advanced A.I. chips, with a large portion going to Tahnoon’s A.I. company. » | Jamelle Bouie | Opinion Columnist | Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister’s Wife Charged with Corruption

THE GUARDIAN: Pedro Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, and two others charged after investigation triggered by group with far-right links

Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been charged with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds at the end of a two-year investigation by a judge in Madrid.

Gómez, 55, has been accused of using her influence as the wife of the socialist prime minister to secure and manage a post at Madrid’s Complutense University, and of using public resources and personal connections to further her private interests.

The judge, Juan Carlos Peinado, has also charged Gómez’s personal assistant, Cristina Álvarez, and a businessman, Juan Carlos Barrabés, in connection with the case.

All the accused have denied wrongdoing. » | Sam Jones in Madrid | Tuesday, April 14, 2026