Disbanded anti-kleptocracy group had entangled Trump allies - The Washington Post

Left unmentioned in the memo was that the team's investigations had entangled three prominent allies of President Donald Trump who had done business with an accused kleptocrat or a close associate...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/27/trump-allies-disbanded-prosecution-unit-kleptocracy/

Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

Author Casey Michel says you might be surprised by who is advocating for foreign interests: lobbyists, law firms, and publicists as well as charitable foundations, major universities and think tanks. 

"...So he [Manafort] had a firm that did political consulting. It helped get people elected to Congress, to the Senate. And then when he came to those same lawmakers who he had helped put in office, saying, hey, I've got a client here from whatever country or whatever firm that needs some help, the lawmaker is talking to the person he depends upon for reelection. So there's this confluence of interest, or you could see it as a conflict of interest, right?"

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/g-s1-16968/foreign-agents-explores-the-u-s-citizens-lobbying-for-foreign-governments

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

In announcing he would not, after all, award the 2020 summit of the Group of Seven major industrial nations to his own resort in Florida, President Donald Trump tweeted, “I thought I was doing something very good for our Country,” and disparaged the “Crazed and Irrational Hostility” of his critics. ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/10/31/trump-boosts-kleptocrats-america-gives-up-corruption-fight-column/2476348001/

As we shudder toward Putin-style kleptocracy, the nation's elites dismiss Trump's crimes - Daily Kos

Last week the New York Times released a full and detailed report outlining crimes committed by a man now elevated to the United States presidency. It explained how Donald Trump's father orchestrated various schemes to evade taxes, thus building his fortune further; it explained how Donald Trump, in particular, assisted those crimes and crafted new ones. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1802782

Stop Fascism -- Chris Hedges Best Speech In 2017

Interview:

https://youtu.be/Ycuw9Cvh6W4

Also at: https://youtu.be/Q2klcRVZs0g

Trump is ushering in a kleptocracy. That's why he is being sued

The public will not stand idly by as Trump turns America into a banana republic. Recent lawsuits – the latest by 196 members of Congress – are trying to stop him...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/14/trump-ushering-kleptocracy-why-being-sued?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=230632&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

In epic letter, investment fund fires law firm for enabling the Trump kleptocracy

The Wallace Global Fund is sick of pretending.

In a scathing letter, the investment fund fired its elite law firm, Morgan Lewis, for its role in enabling Donald Trump to use the presidency to line his pockets.

In January, Morgan Lewis partner Sheri Dillon publicly signed off on Trump’s plan to maintain ownership of his business empire while president. Instead, Dillon established a variety of measures that fell “well short of the steps recommended by the Office of Government Ethics.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/investment-fund-fires-lawyers-trump-kleptocracy-a20e5312c989

5 Trump scandals the head of the House Oversight Committee thinks are no big deal

Chaffetz had his heart set on investigating Hillary Clinton, but doesn’t much care to do oversight of President Trump....
https://thinkprogress.org/jason-chaffetz-oversight-7dba25c529c6

Can American Fascism Be Stopped? | Alternet

It is hard to contemplate the new administration without experiencing alarm bordering on despair: Alarm about the risks of war, the fate of constitutional democracy, the devastation of a century of social progress. Trump’s populism was a total fraud. Every single Trump appointment has come from the pool of far-right conservatives, crackpots, and billionaire kleptocrats. More alarming still is the man himself—his vanity, impulsivity, and willful ignorance, combined with an intuitive genius as a demagogue. A petulant fifth-grader with nuclear weapons will now control the awesome power of the U.S. government....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/can-american-fascism-be-stopped

ThinkProgress.org: Gingrich says Trump can’t be expected to follow ethics laws, so Congress should change them for him

During a Monday appearance on NPR, Trump adviser Newt Gingrich argued that Congress should consider changing ethics laws so President-elect Donald Trump could freely mix his administration and his business interests. "We've never seen this kind of wealth in the White House, and so traditional rules don't work," Gingrich said during a panel discussion on "The Diane Rehm Show." "We're going to have to think up a whole new approach." ...
https://thinkprogress.org/gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-conflicts-of-interest-kleoptocracy-17d500c1d6c6#.8hh3n87bj

Vanity Fair: Wall Street Is Betting on a Trump Kleptocracy

Companies connected to Trump's inner circle are already vastly outperforming the broader stock market. ...
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/donald-trump-cabinet-rich