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Trump's biggest cheerleader forced to acknowledge president’s 'corruption' problem

The Enablers Draw a Line Only at the GriftThe Power Is Still With TrumpChristopher Rufo’s little performance of disgust does not change the basic hierarchy in the story. Donald Trump holds the institutional power. Trump’s family is the one allegedly benefiting from the luxury jet, the crypto schemes, and the broader cash machine that Ezra Klein described in the interview. Rufo is not a check on that power. He is one of the architects who helped make the administration’s agenda politically usable.The reporting gives us a useful glimpse of how the movement cleans up after itself: not by…

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