“Most corrupt administration in history,” said Sen. Patty Murray of the latest Trump pardon. President Donald Trump on Thursday formally pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges in 2023. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the pardon, noted that it came “following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own […]
“Healthcare costs are skyrocketing and federal workers aren’t getting paid. What is Trump doing? Building his gold plated ballroom.” A demolition crew on Monday began tearing down the East Wing facade of the White House in order to make way for President Donald Trump’s luxury ballroom, in a project that one journalist said “captures” the president’s approach to leading the country. […]
“This is illegal and endangers America,” said one critic of Trump’s boat-bombing campaign. The Trump administration launched another military strike on a purported drug trafficking boat on Tuesday night, and for the first time expanded its campaign of extrajudicial killing to the Pacific Ocean. In a social media post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that President Donald Trump had authorized “a lethal kinetic […]
“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic. The $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement operations that the Republican Party included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year led some to warn that the Trump administration was ramping up spending at anti-immigration agencies not just to fund its attacks on migrants, but […]