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Jamelle Bouie:

"By any and every measure, trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the 2nd presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption.

And if corruption and authoritarianism are tied together — then the struggle against Trump’s authoritarian designs must also be a struggle against his personal corruption as well as the corruption of the political system."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/rolex-gold-trump-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.V_9I.b8BNNKh7dXAt&smid=url-share
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Paul Krugman:

"Trump seems to be collapsing on multiple fronts, with the collapse on each front reinforcing the collapse on others. The Epstein affair is coming to a head even as the public loses all faith in his economic policy, and the whole structure of fear on which his regime rests appears to be evaporating.

I don’t know how this ends ... but the U.S. political universe looks very different than it did a few weeks ago."

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
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Krugman on crypto:
"Crypto has become a Trump trade. An industry that’s still having very little success in finding legal use cases for its products basically bought itself a president. For a while that looked like a great investment. But with Trump’s power evaporating, it’s starting to look like money down the drain. And I believe that the crypto crash in part reflects a realization that the political patronage the industry was relying on may not continue."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
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Liz Dye:

"Tuesday was a busy day for Donald Trump at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. At the very moment he was arguing to revive a RICO trollsuit against Hillary Clinton, his effort to revive a defamation trollsuit against CNN got unceremoniously kicked to the curb.

It’s just another day in the life of the world’s most vexatious litigant. It’s also a potent reminder that, when media outlets stand up to the president’s shakedown lawsuits, they always win."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cnn-lawsuit-dismissed
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