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America's Grifter-in-Chief strikes again
The Presidency as a Toll BoothSource of the DealA report on a Kazakhstan tungsten deal says the Trump administration arranged a transaction that stands to enrich Donald Trump’s two eldest sons and the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. That is the surface fact. The political fact is simpler: the executive branch is being used to route public power into private hands, and the beneficiaries are the president’s family and inner circle.Who Holds the LeversThe people with actual institutional power are not the contractors, the analysts, or the reporters trying to keep score. Power sits…
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