There is so much corruption and criming being done by the felon, the felon’s family, and his cronies and minions.
On top of it, he has pardon power, which means many of them are getting away with it (at least at the federal level — I really, really hope that Democratic AGs are taking note).
But we have seen weakness during the month of November. Which means that reckoning may come.
In the meantime, while we work to regain power, we need to document everything they do. Because having attention called to it may actually stop some of it.
The Dems on the House Judiciary (ranking member, Raskin), have created a report on some of the terrible corruption. Obviously, this is just a snapshot, and certainly not all of it.
The report was released last week, just before Thanksgiving, so it did not get the eyeballs and the attention it deserves from the mainstream media (perhaps the dems hoped that it would serve in conversations at Thanksgiving).
Anyway, trying to give it a little extra attention now.
Here’s the press release on the report:
Explosive Report Details How Trump is Exploiting the Presidency to Enrich Himself and His Family While Dismantling Anti-Corruption Safeguards and Pardoning Corporate Cronies
Washington, D.C. (November 25, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a new staff report revealing how President Donald Trump and his family have transformed the presidency into a personal money-making operation, adding billions of dollars to his net worth through cryptocurrency schemes entangled with foreign governments, corporate allies, and criminal actors.
“Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into the world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation, minting staggering personal fortunes for him and his family in less than a year. Meantime, Trump has been pardoning criminals who commit fraud through crypto and dismantling the regulations that protect legitimate American investors. We don’t know where all the money is coming from yet, but America has never seen corruption on this scale take place inside the White House. This Report shows how Trump’s so-called ‘pro-crypto agenda’ is just one more Trump family self-enrichment plan, built on pay-to-play deals and corrupt foreign interests seeking secret channels of access and influence,” said Ranking Member Raskin. “Congress must expose this dangerous grift, and defend the rule of law against the profiteers and criminals who would destroy it.”
The report, “Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption,” documents how the President has used his office to enrich himself and his family—with crypto holdings worth as much as $11.6 billion and income of more than $800 million from the sale of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone—while dismantling federal oversight and safeguards that once protected Americans from fraud, scams, and financial exploitation.
Foreign actors and corporate interests have been buying access and favors from the President and his Administration by funneling money into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures and making large, politically motivated donations. In return, these financial backers have received swift returns: regulatory rollbacks, policy giveaways, and the quiet termination of federal investigations into major players in the crypto industry.
The report presents extensive evidence of presidential self-dealing, foreign influence, and obstruction of justice, revealing how the Trump Administration’s crypto policies were designed to advance Trump and his family’s personal financial interests at the expense of the law, ethics, and national security. Key findings include:
- President Trump and his family have earned hundreds of millions of dollars and added billions to their net worth through a network of cryptocurrency ventures launched during and after the 2024 campaign, including World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP memecoin.
- The Trump family’s crypto ventures have attracted substantial investments from foreign nationals and state-linked entities seeking to curry favor with the Administration—raising severe constitutional, ethical, and national security concerns.
- The Trump Administration has intervened to halt or terminate federal investigations and enforcement actions involving multiple cryptocurrency firms that have donated to the President or invested in his companies, including Coinbase, Gemini, Robinhood, Ripple, Crypto.com, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Kraken.
- Trump has issued pardons and rolled back sanctions for known bad actors that have provided financial support to his ventures.
- The Administration has systematically dismantled anti-corruption and financial integrity safeguards, including dissolving the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), and repealing investor protection rules adopted during the Biden Administration—moves that have directly advanced the President’s personal financial interests.
President Trump and his family kept lining their pockets while he and his allies in Congress closed down the federal government—refusing to extend tax credits to make healthcare affordable for American families, putting continued food benefits for women and children in doubt, and placing active-duty military personnel in danger of missing their next paycheck.
The Committee’s report warns that Trump’s ability to accumulate billions of dollars through his family’s cryptocurrency ventures in less than a year exposes severe weaknesses in the nation’s campaign finance, conflict-of-interest, and anti-bribery laws, and underscores the urgent need for congressional reforms to restore accountability and integrity to the presidency.
Click here to read the report.
Here is the executive summary of the report:
Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Congress have cut funding to Medicaid and Medicare, thrown millions of Americans off their health insurance, refused to extend tax credits that help make healthcare more affordable, and used a government shutdown as an excuse to illegally fire federal civil servants and withhold food benefits for 42 million American citizens, including children, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. At the same time, President Trump and his family have been pocketing billions of dollars through corruption of unprecedented scale. This report shows how the President has leveraged his office to make himself a crypto billionaire and how he has extended broad protection to fraudsters, scam artists, and other online criminals—who, in turn, repay the President and his family with millions of dollars in tribute. Perhaps most troublingly, these crypto ventures allow anyone—including foreign governments, organized crime groups, corporate interests, and criminals seeking pardons and persons seeking government contracts, appointments, or other presidential favors—to secretly place huge sums of money directly into the President’s pockets. In the year since his victory in the 2024 election, Donald Trump’s fortune has expanded monumentally, largely because of his crypto dealings. According to Reuters, the Trump family raked in more than $800 million in income from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone.
Although it is difficult to determine the precise value of President Trump’s cryptocurrency holdings, public reports make clear the number is in the billions with some estimates putting the value of the holdings as high as $11.6 billion. He has built this wealth from the Oval Office by steering investment to his family firm, shielding his investors from federal fraud and securities investigations and prosecutions, bilking his political base, and degrading the federal agencies ordinarily responsible for investigating bribery and tracking known bad actors
Yeah, not my usual good news, but we need to commend the Ds in the House for doing their jobs while the Rs tweet, complain about the president in private, and take extended vacations.
I also think it’s important to have a sense of how much the felon and the felon’s family have stolen during the first year. Getting this story out there may help us win elections (fingers crossed for the elections on Dec 2).
I hope we can claw some of this back.
More to add? Please post in the comments.
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