Scott what you have been doing and continue to do is so important. I learn new facts from you every time I read your account. Thank you for doing the legwork!
Done!! Adam Schiff is one of my senators and I know that both he and Alex Padilla will NOT support Todd Blanche's confirmation as TRump's AG. It's absurd. Blanche is a disgrace to our justice system.
Mine are Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff - they are not voting for him. We need people whose Senators are rethugs to turn up the heat on them. This corrupt Candidate needs to be rejected and sent back to face the NY Bar.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.” - Maya Angelou
Great work Scott. Being a criminal is normal for Taco. He’s been taught to never take responsibility for anything. To blame everyone else. He looks down at people who speak the truth. He’s a vile disgusting slug. And that’s an insult to a slug. 😅
The most corrupt person in this regime is the one pulling the strings: Russell Vought. And he didn't get voted in for anything. He slithered in on the slime of billionaire bourgeois bs.
The first subpoena should be posthumous to Fred Trump asking why the hell he didn't pull out.
I think so too, Jude. Trump isn't smart enough for this constant graft. He evil enough, but I think Miller, Vought, Theil and maybe someone who works in the dark like a cockroach calls the shots. Thr rest of his cabinet are just incompetent clowns. They all need to go; be prosecuted, exposed, jailed, and fined for all the thefts they've committed against "we the people". I hope all their time in the sun is coming to an end. Vote!
The despicable RUMP is of very low intelligence and corrupt to the core. He is without any redeeming qualities. May he disappear back to the dark netherworld from which he slithered.
The first corruption story will still have to be the Epstein case. Trump is absolutely guilty of horrific crimes and i don't care if he is still in office, still alive, prosecute him and all the people covering this up because that in itself is a crime. Goes to my second point, there should be relentless heat on all congress people in the committe that advances Todd Blanche nominee for attorney general. Thom Tillis and all of the other republicans even considering voting to advance his nomination should be relentlessly pressured to stand up to this in your face corruption and take a stand. Trump can rant on his social media, but rant right back at him. Stop protecting a child sex trafficker and the lawyer who is facing disbarment from trying to make it go away.
Many in the Reptilian/republican party are corrupt and evil and need to face prosecution right along with the most despised and corrupt elected president in the history of this country. I believe the memos I've read of children who were raped by the ugly fat ass RUMP and I believe, without reading them, the thousands of pages of the Epstein files that have not been released because they contain over 38,000 mentions of his vile name. If he was innocent, he would be SELLING each and every page of those files. He worships the golden calf. He is a foul-smelling and evil demon who needs to disappear.
Such a hard question, Scott. I think trump's role in Jan 6 needs to be first, followed by Epstein cover-up, insider trading, war crimes, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
the most corrupt person in my opinion, is the mastermind behind p25 - Vought. Dementia J is no way near smart enough, or lucid enough, to have imagined, planned, executed any of the methodical gutting of the government and its employees. he is a narcissistic puppet with a god complex who takes orders and scrawls his illegible signature on EOs in lieu of legal legislation. following closely is Blanch who in any sane era would be stripped of his ability to practice law and prosecuted for his crimes against the government and citizens. and we can't forget the Jewish nazi, Miller. there are really no decent words to describe him. they all belong in prison stripes...
I take your point, but is Russell Vought really "corrupt"? I don't think so. What he is, is anti-democracy. Capitalism and democracy can co-exist only if democracy is in charge. Since the onset of Reagan, it mostly hasn't been -- and when it was, notably during the Obama and Biden administrations, it had to devote much attention to the mess that run-amok capitalism made.
'Corrupt generally means altered from an original, pure, or correct state into something worse, debased, or dishonest.' I think he fits this exactly - as do most, if not all, of the administration and appointed remora. They are morally corrupt, if not outright financially so. And do we know what his payoff in service to the ideology of those in charge is? I understand your view of corruption in the material sense, but I think it goes far deeper - the raison d'être, the fundamental, motivating passion for oligarchic control.
But by this definition who among us *isn't* corrupt? No real-world concept exists in an "original, pure, or correct state." Democracy doesn't. Capitalism doesn't. They're both works in progress. At least some of the U.S. founders were all in with "oligarchic control." Does that make them "corrupt"? I don't think so. They might be horrified by the current state of "the American experiment," but hey, they're not alone in that! People in power tend to want to perpetuate their power. This isn't unique, or even unusual.
I'm thinking, as I very often do, of a question posed more than 50 years ago by my Modern European History professor: "What is a fascist -- other than someone you don't like?" (Nervous laughter greeted the question, but ever since I've tried to be very careful about who and what I call "fascist.") It might be helpful to apply the same question to "corrupt."
I'm not about to dismiss Russell Vought or any number of other people as "corrupt" because I strenuously disagree with them. I know for a fact that many people "hold to be self-evident" truths that I find abhorrent. That doesn't make them corrupt. It often means that their backgrounds are different and/or the conclusions they've drawn from their own experiences are different. Diversity, IOW, is more challenging than many of us realize.
You are certainly entitled to your vision of innocence in the machinations of the powers behind the throne. I disagree with many people and their views, but America has rarely been subject to these totalitarian, ultranationalist, white supremacy based attempts to destroy democracy. I think we fail to ascribe the goals of this regime at our peril.
"Vision of innocence"? Wow. What you seem to be missing is that the U.S. wasn't subject to these "attempts to destroy democracy" because those interests were in control, and successfully limiting democracy to those they thought deserved it. The civil rights advances of the mid-1960s challenged them in a big way, and so did the women's rights advances that followed, notably Roe v. Wade (1973). Too many people think that Trump I and Trump II came out of nowhere, but that's mostly because that's when they started paying attention.
The rise of Trump began in the 50s with the Chicago school of economics swinging their support of free market policies to support of large corporate entities. With this came the 80s politicians embracing large tax reductions for the rich amid rising inequality for the masses. Union busting, off-shoring of jobs, wage stagnation, recessions for thee and ‘greed is good’ for the masters of the universe. Asset inequality bred political power inequality, controlled by the oligarch class – leading to a self-licking ice cream cone.
Politicians no longer work for the common good but for their financial and power preservation. Monopoly ownership of media led to loss of trust in news, turning people to populists, propaganda, promises and disappointments. Wars, banking scandals, public and private debt, housing crash, Covid – all managing to further enrich the ruling class and enshitify everyone else. None of this is an accident. So, I am to draw the conclusion that your comment that “successfully limiting democracy to those that deserved it” was for those who could afford to buy it and the rest of us were at their mercy.
Trump’s grift, theft, enrichment at the public trough of he and his corrupt remora while cutting any semblance of social programs or aid was just the softening up of the rest of America in preparation for para-military thugs on the streets, election interference, abandonment of allies, reckless foreign policies. All to fracture trust, divide and weaken the country in an attempt to gain permanent control. These are deeply corrupt people with not a redeeming feature to be found. But YMMV…
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
“Just follow the money. The same group of billionaires that poured millions into Trump’s political campaign, into his ballroom, into his crypto projects are the very same people who cheated hard-working Americans and then got a free pass from Donald Trump and Russ Vought.”
“This is corruption, and Acting Director Vought is right at the center of it.”
Your report is mind boggling! There's so much to unravel. But first things first. He started an illegal and unjust war with Iran. He's committed war crimes and he's a pedophile and he's coveringup those crmes. These are the crimes that Congress has to make those crimes a priority. He
Holy guacamole, Dworkin, those are incredible questions you've asked... makes my head explode when I read about the mega-buck corruption that's happened right in front of us. Blatant. While my first reaction is to burst forth mega-expletives, my more sensible self says: We the people MUST take direct, decisive actions to expose, investigate, prosecute AND - importantly - claw back these billions of US dollars - none of this passes the smell test, or the Emoluments clause. We cannot allow this to continue. It is criminal at the highest levels, accountability is mandatory. Dammit. I do not understand how the magats can turn a blind eye, deaf ear to it. Please keep up the good work, dig, dig, dig.... justice MUST and WILL prevail!
#1 FOCUS—SHARE AND SEND: Tell your Senators to vote NO on Todd Blanche: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-todd-blanche-for-attorney-general/
Scott what you have been doing and continue to do is so important. I learn new facts from you every time I read your account. Thank you for doing the legwork!
Ditto that!
Done!! Adam Schiff is one of my senators and I know that both he and Alex Padilla will NOT support Todd Blanche's confirmation as TRump's AG. It's absurd. Blanche is a disgrace to our justice system.
Mine are Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff - they are not voting for him. We need people whose Senators are rethugs to turn up the heat on them. This corrupt Candidate needs to be rejected and sent back to face the NY Bar.
Same senators here...I send them thank you letters.
And I do the same for the two Calif. Senators! Right there with you, Megan!
Same in IL don’t forget Dick Durban’s summation of Blanche’s tenure in 4 words: “I love you, sir”
done again
Sent!
Done!
On it!
Done! Several times plus a phone call. But with Collins one never can trust that she will listen.
Done👍🏼
😘
Done! Again! And again, and again and again!
No!!!
Keep the pressure on! Share this everywhere, and demand answers. Exposure only matters if we turn it into consequences.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.” - Maya Angelou
He’s always been a thug and a crook. Always.
He is worse than that.
Agreed that is the least of it.
He is a known Pedophile and quite likely a conspiracist in murder.
Michael, most important a CONVICTED FELON!!!
Seeing survivors show up and the receipts line up gives me real hope — people are refusing to look away, and pressure works. That’s why I’m sharing.
Great work Scott. Being a criminal is normal for Taco. He’s been taught to never take responsibility for anything. To blame everyone else. He looks down at people who speak the truth. He’s a vile disgusting slug. And that’s an insult to a slug. 😅
Julie, I call him an EVIL MONSTER CONVICTED FELON, RAPIST AND PEDOPHILE!
Felon47
Agree! Julie!
Nice work. It is unfair to slugs, as you say; but perhaps we could use the analogy of “ Vile, Disgusting slug slime”. Where’s my salt shaker?
The most corrupt person in this regime is the one pulling the strings: Russell Vought. And he didn't get voted in for anything. He slithered in on the slime of billionaire bourgeois bs.
The first subpoena should be posthumous to Fred Trump asking why the hell he didn't pull out.
I think so too, Jude. Trump isn't smart enough for this constant graft. He evil enough, but I think Miller, Vought, Theil and maybe someone who works in the dark like a cockroach calls the shots. Thr rest of his cabinet are just incompetent clowns. They all need to go; be prosecuted, exposed, jailed, and fined for all the thefts they've committed against "we the people". I hope all their time in the sun is coming to an end. Vote!
Oh, and let's not forget the complicit GOP!
Joanne, The cockroach in the dark is Curtis Yarvin. He, Thiel, Vought, and Miller are all insane and evil.
Truth!
The despicable RUMP is of very low intelligence and corrupt to the core. He is without any redeeming qualities. May he disappear back to the dark netherworld from which he slithered.
So agree, Patti!
The first corruption story will still have to be the Epstein case. Trump is absolutely guilty of horrific crimes and i don't care if he is still in office, still alive, prosecute him and all the people covering this up because that in itself is a crime. Goes to my second point, there should be relentless heat on all congress people in the committe that advances Todd Blanche nominee for attorney general. Thom Tillis and all of the other republicans even considering voting to advance his nomination should be relentlessly pressured to stand up to this in your face corruption and take a stand. Trump can rant on his social media, but rant right back at him. Stop protecting a child sex trafficker and the lawyer who is facing disbarment from trying to make it go away.
Many in the Reptilian/republican party are corrupt and evil and need to face prosecution right along with the most despised and corrupt elected president in the history of this country. I believe the memos I've read of children who were raped by the ugly fat ass RUMP and I believe, without reading them, the thousands of pages of the Epstein files that have not been released because they contain over 38,000 mentions of his vile name. If he was innocent, he would be SELLING each and every page of those files. He worships the golden calf. He is a foul-smelling and evil demon who needs to disappear.
Such a hard question, Scott. I think trump's role in Jan 6 needs to be first, followed by Epstein cover-up, insider trading, war crimes, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
His treasonous acts on January 6th probably should come first. It is difficult to decide between Jan. 6 and Epstein, but probably Jan. 6 comes first.
the most corrupt person in my opinion, is the mastermind behind p25 - Vought. Dementia J is no way near smart enough, or lucid enough, to have imagined, planned, executed any of the methodical gutting of the government and its employees. he is a narcissistic puppet with a god complex who takes orders and scrawls his illegible signature on EOs in lieu of legal legislation. following closely is Blanch who in any sane era would be stripped of his ability to practice law and prosecuted for his crimes against the government and citizens. and we can't forget the Jewish nazi, Miller. there are really no decent words to describe him. they all belong in prison stripes...
I take your point, but is Russell Vought really "corrupt"? I don't think so. What he is, is anti-democracy. Capitalism and democracy can co-exist only if democracy is in charge. Since the onset of Reagan, it mostly hasn't been -- and when it was, notably during the Obama and Biden administrations, it had to devote much attention to the mess that run-amok capitalism made.
'Corrupt generally means altered from an original, pure, or correct state into something worse, debased, or dishonest.' I think he fits this exactly - as do most, if not all, of the administration and appointed remora. They are morally corrupt, if not outright financially so. And do we know what his payoff in service to the ideology of those in charge is? I understand your view of corruption in the material sense, but I think it goes far deeper - the raison d'être, the fundamental, motivating passion for oligarchic control.
But by this definition who among us *isn't* corrupt? No real-world concept exists in an "original, pure, or correct state." Democracy doesn't. Capitalism doesn't. They're both works in progress. At least some of the U.S. founders were all in with "oligarchic control." Does that make them "corrupt"? I don't think so. They might be horrified by the current state of "the American experiment," but hey, they're not alone in that! People in power tend to want to perpetuate their power. This isn't unique, or even unusual.
I'm thinking, as I very often do, of a question posed more than 50 years ago by my Modern European History professor: "What is a fascist -- other than someone you don't like?" (Nervous laughter greeted the question, but ever since I've tried to be very careful about who and what I call "fascist.") It might be helpful to apply the same question to "corrupt."
I'm not about to dismiss Russell Vought or any number of other people as "corrupt" because I strenuously disagree with them. I know for a fact that many people "hold to be self-evident" truths that I find abhorrent. That doesn't make them corrupt. It often means that their backgrounds are different and/or the conclusions they've drawn from their own experiences are different. Diversity, IOW, is more challenging than many of us realize.
You are certainly entitled to your vision of innocence in the machinations of the powers behind the throne. I disagree with many people and their views, but America has rarely been subject to these totalitarian, ultranationalist, white supremacy based attempts to destroy democracy. I think we fail to ascribe the goals of this regime at our peril.
"Vision of innocence"? Wow. What you seem to be missing is that the U.S. wasn't subject to these "attempts to destroy democracy" because those interests were in control, and successfully limiting democracy to those they thought deserved it. The civil rights advances of the mid-1960s challenged them in a big way, and so did the women's rights advances that followed, notably Roe v. Wade (1973). Too many people think that Trump I and Trump II came out of nowhere, but that's mostly because that's when they started paying attention.
The rise of Trump began in the 50s with the Chicago school of economics swinging their support of free market policies to support of large corporate entities. With this came the 80s politicians embracing large tax reductions for the rich amid rising inequality for the masses. Union busting, off-shoring of jobs, wage stagnation, recessions for thee and ‘greed is good’ for the masters of the universe. Asset inequality bred political power inequality, controlled by the oligarch class – leading to a self-licking ice cream cone.
Politicians no longer work for the common good but for their financial and power preservation. Monopoly ownership of media led to loss of trust in news, turning people to populists, propaganda, promises and disappointments. Wars, banking scandals, public and private debt, housing crash, Covid – all managing to further enrich the ruling class and enshitify everyone else. None of this is an accident. So, I am to draw the conclusion that your comment that “successfully limiting democracy to those that deserved it” was for those who could afford to buy it and the rest of us were at their mercy.
Trump’s grift, theft, enrichment at the public trough of he and his corrupt remora while cutting any semblance of social programs or aid was just the softening up of the rest of America in preparation for para-military thugs on the streets, election interference, abandonment of allies, reckless foreign policies. All to fracture trust, divide and weaken the country in an attempt to gain permanent control. These are deeply corrupt people with not a redeeming feature to be found. But YMMV…
Fascism, from the American Heritage dictionary:
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
That's the first paragraph. Do a search on it.
See it. Name it. Fight it.
“Just follow the money. The same group of billionaires that poured millions into Trump’s political campaign, into his ballroom, into his crypto projects are the very same people who cheated hard-working Americans and then got a free pass from Donald Trump and Russ Vought.”
“This is corruption, and Acting Director Vought is right at the center of it.”
https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-delivers-opening-remarks-at-voughts-first-and-last-committee-hearing-as-acting-director-of-the-cfpb
My mind is too angry to compile a list.
I'm about to lose mine
There are days ….
I nominate Kash Patel for most corrupt. Mainly because he's not even hiding it.
None of them are hiding it, there needs to be investigations in every department
All of the regime are corrupt and complicit. Hassett, Miller, Bessent, Don Junior and Eric all are at the top of the list nit to mention Kushner.
Your report is mind boggling! There's so much to unravel. But first things first. He started an illegal and unjust war with Iran. He's committed war crimes and he's a pedophile and he's coveringup those crmes. These are the crimes that Congress has to make those crimes a priority. He
Keep shining a light on every corrupt Trump act. His pay for play schemes disguised as tariffs will hopefully be his demise. peace ✌️
Has anyone looked into the accusations from Ashley St. Claire about
Musk Stealing the election for Trump with a Special Algorithm??
Holy guacamole, Dworkin, those are incredible questions you've asked... makes my head explode when I read about the mega-buck corruption that's happened right in front of us. Blatant. While my first reaction is to burst forth mega-expletives, my more sensible self says: We the people MUST take direct, decisive actions to expose, investigate, prosecute AND - importantly - claw back these billions of US dollars - none of this passes the smell test, or the Emoluments clause. We cannot allow this to continue. It is criminal at the highest levels, accountability is mandatory. Dammit. I do not understand how the magats can turn a blind eye, deaf ear to it. Please keep up the good work, dig, dig, dig.... justice MUST and WILL prevail!