“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com

February 06, 2026 - 16:44 UTC

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Let alone a $200MM slush fund in Qatar.

Venezuela/qatar is going to make Iran/contra seem like tiddlywinks.
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Fully agree.

The amount of corruption tolerance in US congres and Senate is frightening
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I keep thinking of my formative years seeing the news during the Clinton administration and … yeah.
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Now the only complaint is the need to pay more crypto in bribes while it crashes.
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Classic Bunny Trap yo fomo AF lol
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There's also a kidnapped foreign leader and his wife sitting in a jail in Brooklyn, which the entire world seems to have completely forgotten about. There are a lot of political earthquake causing things going on that are going unnoticed because the ground is already so unstable and full of cracks.
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If anything, what all of this has sadly laid blatantly bare is that whatever checks and balances there are (or were) are - in fact - useless

And it has also completely upset what we all thought was a proper Western world order

I knew the 2nd Presidency would be bad

But I didn’t expect this bad
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