Trump's 'Unchecked Corruption' Is Splintering the Maga Coalition

Dec 5, 2025 | "Even just the perception of this stinks."

Trump is a "lame duck" whose family are "just trying make the most amount of money" while they can but the GOP is worried about what this will do to the Maga coalition, says Washington reporter for Politico, Daniel Lippman.

Donald Trump’s Circle Assumes They Can Take, Abuse, and Kill

Steve Schmidt enlarges on Trump’s corruption.
God’s little helpers are very busy right now stoking the fires of Hell! — © Mark Alexander

Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns Amid Widening Corruption Scandal

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff and top peace negotiator, became the highest-ranking casualty of an investigation into a vast kickback scheme.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned on Friday in the highest-level political realignment in Ukraine since Russia’s all-out invasion nearly four years ago.

The departure of Mr. Yermak, who had headed Ukraine’s negotiating team in peace talks with the Trump administration, also put in doubt the future of the latest round of diplomatic efforts by the United States, Ukraine and European nations to end the war.

Mr. Yermak stepped down amid a spiraling, $100 million embezzlement scandal that has already led to the dismissal of two cabinet ministers and even threatened to topple Mr. Zelensky’s entire cabinet.

“I am grateful to Andriy for always representing Ukraine’s position in the negotiation track exactly as it should be represented,” Mr. Zelensky said in a video address announcing the resignation. He said he had accepted the resignation to “avoid rumors and speculation” about his chief of staff.

Mr. Yermak, 54, is the highest-level official to lose his job in the fallout from the 15-month investigation called Operation Midas, revealed by Ukraine’s top anti-corruption agencies, which said the effort had produced 1,000 hours of wiretaps.

Mr. Yermak has not been officially named in the investigation. But on Friday, investigators searched his home in Kyiv. » | Kim Barker and Andrew E. Kramer | Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine | Friday, November 28, 2025

Trump Welcomes Saudi Arabian Dictator with Open Arms

Nov 19, 2025 | After meeting with Saudi Arabian dictator Mohammed Bin Salman in the White House, it's clear Trump can be bought by anyone. Steve Schmidt reacts to this meeting and highlights the corruption in Trump's regime and beyond.

IHIP News: Trump Terrified! Could Former Prince Be Speaking to Congress about EPSTEIN FILES?

Nov 7, 2025 | Trump’s horrible week gets worse with the possibility of his old friend, former Prince Andrew, testifying before Congress about his relationship to Trump and Epstein.
I won’t embed this video because it is far too controversial and the language used in it is far, far too strong. But it should be watched. It is very informative. Click here to watch it. — Mark

Democracy Now! "Master Plan": David Sirota on the Elite Plot to Legalize Corruption in the U.S.

Oct 29, 2025 | We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever.

Sirota says that while the United States is now "immersed in corruption" in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decades-long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable. "This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat."


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Democracy Now! "Master Plan": David Sirota on the Elite Plot to Legalize Corruption in the US

Oct 28, 2025 | We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever.

Sirota says that while the United States is now "immersed in corruption" in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decades-long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable. "This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat."


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Trump's Justice Department Shows True Corruption

Oct 23, 2025 | While the Epstein files are waiting to be released, Trump and his DOJ goons are showing just how corrupt they really are. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's corrupt foreign deals and the media's role in protecting the powerful.

"The Supreme Court Is Corrupt"

Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan explain.

Democracy Now! Republicans PANIC as Trump Finances Go Public!

Aug 25, 2025 | Donald Trump has perfected the art of the grift, and his presidency has hypercharged his profiteering. Yasmin Khan breaks it down on Rebel HQ.

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Can there be any doubt that America is being led by a crook? We know that Trump is a felon and a sex offender who should have been incarcerated. There is no doubt about that. But surely, one must ask oneself two questions: 1.) Isn’t it certain that Trump is filling his own coffers at the expense of American taxpayers? AND 2.) Why are Americans putting up with corruption, this wickedness?

It has been reported recently that Trump has been worrying about where he is going to end up — Heaven or Hell? He need worry no longer! God already has His little helpers busy stoking the fires of Hell for him! It’s where all cruel, heartless, corrupt, shameless, wicked people end up! — © Mark Alexander

How Much Money Is Trump Pocketing from the Presidency? | The New Yorker

Aug 21, 2025 | The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick tallies up the Trump family’s profiteering, including five Persian Gulf mega-projects, a luxury jet from Qatar, a sprawling resort in Hanoi, half a dozen projects peddling crypto, and MAGA merch.

How Americans put up with this sh** is beyond my comprehension! — © Mark Alexander

Trump and His Family Making Millions Off the Presidency

Jul 15, 2025 | While his regime manipulates markets and causes trade wars, Donald Trump and the members of his family have been quietly making billions with foreign entities. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's use of power for personal gain and what the 2 billion dollar "investment" was really for.

Espagne : malgré les scandales, Pedro Sánchez affirme qu’il ne va pas «jeter l’éponge»

LE FIGARO : Le premier ministre socialiste espagnol a également annoncé lors de son allocution le lancement d’un «plan anticorruption» élaboré avec l’OCDE.

Dans une allocution solennelle de 45 minutes adressée aux députés, Pedro Sánchez, qui fait face à la plus grave crise depuis son arrivée au pouvoir en 2018, a dit avoir «envisagé» de démissionner et de convoquer des élections anticipées après les révélations ayant abouti au placement en détention provisoire de l’ex-N.3 du Parti socialiste, Santos Cerdán. Il a finalement choisi de rester à son poste car «jeter l’éponge n’était pas une option». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mercredi 9 juillet 2025

The Lincoln Project: Golden Circle

Jul 3, 2025 | This is what oligarchy looks like.

Katherine Stewart on Trump's Destruction of Democracy and How the People Fight Back

Jul 16, 2025 | Author and expert on destroying democracy, Katherine Stewart, joins Anthony Davis to discuss the authoritarian rise of Trump, and how his dictatorship is evolving with indiscriminate deportations, abuses of power and lack of due process - and how the people are pushing back through protest to restore their freedoms - only on The Weekend Show.

Nicolle Wallace: ‘Trump Turned the White House Lawn into a Tesla Showroom’

Mar 12, 2025 | Teddy Schleifer, New York Times Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Elon Musk putting $100 million directly into Donald Trump’s political operation, coming the day after the President used the White House South Lawn as a Tesla showroom to try to help him sell cars, as his business begins to flail since Musk became a government employee.

‘Recipe for Corruption’: Trump’s ‘Populism’ Exposed as He Stocks Cabinet with Billionaires

Dec 7, 2024 | Donald Trump is building the wealthiest cabinet in history. MSNBC’s Katie Phang reports on the unprecedented influence billionaires now have in American politics and is joined by Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong Fast and The New York Times’ Teddy Schleifer.

Western politics has become so corrupt that it is hard to see how it will be able to survive long-term. Moreover, do we really want it to survive? All I read about these days is corruption, total and absolute corruption. And it is vomit-inducing. There no longer appears to be any common sense in Western politics. It seems to me that the more secular Western politics has become, the more corrupt it has become. – © Mark Alexander

‘Building the Trump Swamp’: Get Ready for ‘All the Sleaze,' Critics Say

Nov 27, 2024 | Donald Trump has promised his voters that he will “drain the swamp,” when he apparently has an oligarchic plan for America, critics say.

Farage & Johnson Are to Blame for the Post-Brexit Mess We Are In

Oct 5, 2024 | The UK economy has been badly damaged by Brexit. However, the Conservative government made matters very much worse once Boris Johnson became prime minister. Johnson was not a serious politician and during his premiership dishonesty, corruption and incompetence became the norm.

The Covid19 pandemic brought an urgent need for PPE which, instead of being supplied through normal channels was supplied by companies recommended by friends of Tory politicians, leading to widespread supply of faulty or useless PPE. In the meantime, companies which had never supplied PPE before made fortunes.

Last week, the Conservative Party Conference took place in Birmingham. Liz Truss, despite being the shortest-serving and least-successful prime minister ever was present at the event.

Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly all made speeches in their bids to become party leader. Jenrick and Cleverly are likely to be the two candidates to be subject to an election amongst Tory Party members.

In this video, I also discuss Priti Patel and Nadhim Zahawi. Patel because she received money for her failed leadership election bid from someone closely connected with someone for whom she helped obtain PPE contracts, and Zahawi because he claimed expenses in order to heat his stables and because of a £5 million penalty he paid HMRC in respect of capital gains tax which he claims he forgot to declare.

Finally I remind viewers how it was Nigel Farage who was principally responsible for Brexit, and it was Boris Johnson who presided over corruption, dishonesty and incompetence which has led the UK to being in the dire situation we now.


The United Kingdom must by now be one of the most corrupt countries in the Western world! – © Mark Alexander

Russia's Influence on the UK | Strippers, Spies & Russian Money | Dispatches | Channel 4

Aug 18, 2024 | The extraordinary story of Russia's covert efforts to corrupt British democracy and politics in the years before invading Ukraine. MI5 declined to comment on the programme for operational reasons.

The Tories are TRASH! The UNITED KINGDOM is FINISHED. It will NEVER be the same again. – © Mark Alexander