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Ian Douglas Rushlau's avatar

'the onus is on the president to prove that his company isn’t a conduit for bribes'

Any member of the Trump criminal cabal actually considering constitutional, legal and ethical responsibilities, let alone the scam artist in chief?

As the folks from the American South might say, bless you heart.

Of course the company is a conduit for bribes. The fascist regime in Washington (that would be the entire GOP), like every fascist regime in recorded history, having attained sufficient political authority to act with impunity (which is the primary purpose of every fascist political effort), are no longer bothering to hide the criming. Who's to tell them no?

Katherine H's avatar

Thank you to Claire Berlinski for bringing me here . . . Astonishing reporting . . . And, yes, why don’t the Dems have the sense to make this corruption and breakdown of law and violation of national security the headline issues instead of (yawn) technocratic details of policy?

Dekleptocracy's avatar

The answer is that they can't help themselves. They haven't seem to have digested that, were the election reran tomorrow, they'd probably still lose.

Louisa Kasdon's avatar

This is excellent and terrifying reporting.

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯'s avatar

> "which is why governments, including our own, have made great efforts to monitor the blockchain"

fwiw most blockchains are pretty close to unmonitored, and as soon as the government decides to start monitoring one of them (like the way there was a lot of interest in monitoring tron after october 7th) the bros just create new blockchains.

trump's new business partner crypto[.]com's multiple blockchains are a good example of this in action.

Tanju Yurukoglu's avatar

Thank you for this excellent piece! I had no doubts,,,

Chuck Kessler's avatar

To your point - Democratic leadership (an oxymoron) is feckless and clueless.

Moinescu Dumitru's avatar

Interesting information ! Keep searching !

Dekleptocracy's avatar

Fair. What I really was referring to was the exchanges, I suppose. What the Chinese appear to be doing is building a giant ChainAnalysis.

Tim Mullaney's avatar

Why should Chinese bribes be left out?