“When the person at the top is as corrupt as Trump, everyone else becomes corrupt, because otherwise you’re a sucker,” wrote one journalist. Boris Epshteyn, a leading adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, allegedly sought payments in the tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for promoting candidates for top positions in the incoming administration, a scheme […]
“If anyone had any doubts whether the Trump government aims to serve regular people or the billionaires, they should now be resolved,” said one watchdog. President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk—the world’s richest man, a megadonor to the Republican’s campaign, and a beneficiary of government contracts—will co-lead a not-yet-created department tasked with gutting federal regulations […]
Call me naïve. At the beginning of this year, I felt confident in asserting that the court was a conservative court, a Federalist Society court, even a Republican court—but not a MAGA court. Last spring, Justice Samuel Alito had drafted an opinion dropping federal charges against many of the January 6 insurrectionists who violently stormed […]
The group’s leader said the media should “cover the Biden vs. Trump election as a comparison between how each president administered the immensely important executive branch.” The Revolving Door Project on Monday released a set of reports on corruption and mismanagement in executive agencies during the Trump presidency, calling on the media to focus on presumptive Republican […]