Someone just flagged this to me. Top of my reading list tonight. Probably the most in the open example of presidential corruption in US history. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u... - ThreadSky

joshtpm.bsky.social • 11 hours ago

Someone just flagged this to me. Top of my reading list tonight. Probably the most in the open example of presidential corruption in US history. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html?smid=bs-share

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johnpicker.bsky.social•9 hours ago

For every reader who’s disgusted by this spectacle of grift, there is an awed Trump voter who imagines how cool it would be if they could get a piece of that action.

theotherjim.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I feel like we need Woody Allen to reprise his "Love... luff... LOAVE..." routine from Annie Hall, only this time with the term "corruption" because it's beginning to be wholly deficient as a descriptor for the shit Trump is pulling.

dagies.bsky.social•9 hours ago

They wanted to lock the Bidens up for much less

karin.kallmaker.com•10 hours ago

I am increasingly concerned that his new success metric is "I'm getting richer by millions every day, week, month. All I do is therefore good. No other information matters."

Why should he change course on anything? The first 100 days have magnitudes increased his personal wealth.

playultm8.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yup! Great reporting on a massive corruption scandal, and as of right now still absolutely buried on the NYTimes front page.

democracytheway.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Come back to me when you have reporting on how "the most in the open example of presidential corruption in US history" was stopped!

mwalker5678.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I would love to read the article you shared but the darn paywall.

obliques.bsky.social•6 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/laconicone.bsky.social/post/3lnymdhtcuk2x

massdisillusion.bsky.social•10 hours ago

How Justin Sun got his SEC case dropped.

pyoter.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I know Drumpf and VP Jethro are immune, but one day, some folks are gonna go to jail for this...

johncastiglione.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Read the Tether article too. That’s actually the bigger story.

obliques.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This one?

https://www.ibtimes.sg/cantor-fitzgerald-tether-softbank-team-launch-3-6-billion-bitcoin-venture-79666

swiffy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

So the shadow Secretary of State is spending all his time on crypto deals where his son is in business

betsynagler.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Can you gift the article? 😇

obliques.bsky.social•6 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/laconicone.bsky.social/post/3lnymdhtcuk2x

givedogsthevote.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Dont worry, the enablers are all over it

https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409694

caitbrie.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It’s depressingly bad. Then again, the Supremes and the R Congress have both given him permission slips.

“President Trump has noted that conflict of interest laws do not apply to him, and that he has broad immunity for official actions he takes as president.”

alastoravasarala.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I'll look for this story at other news outlets. Absolutely will not click on anything NYT. No data, no money from me for a newspaper complicit in normalizing fascism and promoting transphobia.

gwpda.bsky.social•5 hours ago

No one seems to remember Teapot Dome.

michaelannemurray.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Dunno why they even bother keeping deals secret. It’s not like anyone in a position to to anything about all this sickening corruption is going to hold him accountable

persicaria267.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Listen to the first 15 minutes of Silicone Curtain podcast with Vlad Mykhnenko about the galling corruption in the mineral deal Trump and Bessant wanted Ukraine to sign. Basically using a commercial vehicle/tax haven for international government business with 6 unnamed partners! Shady as fuck, no?