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An Inside Look at the Trump Administration’s “Official Playbook of Grift and Fraud Planned for the 2025 Inauguration”
Part II: How do I love to bribe the president? Let me count the ways.
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Ken Silverstein
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Chronicle of a Nominee’s Death Foretold
The unfortunate demise of the Trump administration's short-lived attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, which is positive in the abstract but I'd rather…
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Ken Silverstein
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EXCLUSIVE: An Inside Look at the Trump Administration’s “Official Playbook of Grift and Fraud Planned for the 2025 Inauguration”
Part I: If history and recent moves by Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc. are a guide, the most obscene ten-week period of political profiteering in…
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Ken Silverstein
A Brief Postscript on Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pick to Lead the Pentagon, and His Ties to Blackwater Founder Erik Prince and the Far-Right
"Hegseth isn't just a dumb cable news host," one source told me. "He's basically been groomed from birth to take part in the right-wing movement to…
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Ken Silverstein
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An Unloving Look Back at the Center for American Progress, the Corporate-Financed Democratic Think Tank that Paved the Way From FDR & the…
You can't understand the corporate capture of the Democratic Party and the collapse of contemporary liberalism without knowing the history of CAP.
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Ken Silverstein
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Pentagon Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth is the Inaugural Member of Erik Prince’s Secret Group Chat to Be Named to the Trump II…
Who’s Who in Erik Prince’s Previously Secret Group Chat, Part IV
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Ken Silverstein
Marco Rubio: Poor Little Rich Boy Runs Into Real Estate Trouble
The Senator's three houses, various lady friends, assorted con artist pals and piles of unexplained income.
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Oops! We Did It Again: AIPAC Buys Back Congress
AIPAC was the top donor to a large swathe of the congressional leadership and that's the tip of its iceberg of influence - and Netanyahu's - in the…
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Ken Silverstein
Make MAGA Rich Again!
Trump’s incoming team of grifters already set up a brand new PAC to solicit bribes, or unlimited corporate contributions as the FEC prefers to say, from…
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Ken Silverstein
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While Harris Torched At Least $2 Billion During Humiliating Defeat to Trump, Former Top Staffers and Advisors for the Veep, Biden, Obama…
Ten political consulting firms with close ties to the Democratic establishment raked in more than $100 million from Harris's campaign coffers.
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Ken Silverstein
A Philosophical and Investigative Essay On the Lamentable Necessity of Making Maximum Utility of Dirty Tricks in Contemporary US Politics
Part II: A month ago, it looked like Kamala Harris would cruise to victory. Here’s how Team Trump’s army of smear peddlers helped derail her campaign…
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Ken Silverstein
Trump is Going to Win the Election
Can Dork Mega save Kamala Harris?
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