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The Family Business
May 2, 2026
AI Analysis: Plain Folks
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Isaac Paul of Tangle has done us all a favor by creating a highly detailed compendium of the Trump family’s corruption during this second term. If you read it all in one place its truly, overwhelmingly shocking. It’s a great contribution to our understanding of what’s going on and well worth reading and bookmarking. I’m sure he’ll have to add to it on a nearly daily basis.
He runs down the unbelievable crypto schemes and looks closely at how the family is selling out foreign policy in return for billions. But they aren’t leave even a penny on the sidewalk. Here’s just a small excerpt of some of the other grifts they’ve got going: A lot of what I’ve written so far has involved the Trump administration simultaneously dictating foreign policy while also taking funds, in some form, from foreign governments, leaders, or wealthy foreign actors. Yet plenty of this is happening domestically, too. For instance: The Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile, a branded phone that costs 499 and an additional 47.45/month for the “47” plan. The Trump organization does not manufacture the phone or provide cell service (the phone itself has yet to be released, and the network will be operated by Liberty Mobile Wireless). Instead, Trump licenses his name to the deal and then promotes it using the presidential brand while he is in office — all at a cool profit. Wherever you look, there’s another potential profit. Last spring, the Trump family opened an exclusive club in Washington called “Executive
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