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Slate Magazine | Wait, Trump Made HOW Much Money as President?! by Ian Prasad Philbrick AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article reports that Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure shows an explosive rise in personal income—at least $2.2 billion in 2025, more than three times what he reported the year before—driven by $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures, $575 million from real‑estate holdings, and $86.5 million in settlement fees from media and tech lawsuits. Analysts argue this surge suggests the presidency is being leveraged for profit, citing actions such as exempting Trump‑branded crypto tokens from SEC oversight, facilitating a UAE chip deal that coincided with a $2 billion investment in his crypto business, and allowing the Trump Organization to pursue new foreign deals despite earlier promises to refrain. Compared with historical precedents, the scale of Trump's earnings vastly exceeds those of prior presidents and their families, who typically earned millions rather than billions. Trump dismissed the allegations, attributing his gains to a rising stock market and claiming no direct involvement with the financiers, while his sons Eric and Donald Jr. continue to manage the family trust that collects the money. Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/donald-trump-corruption-income.html #DonaldTrump #EricTrump #SEC #UAE #GovernmentEthics #HarryTruman #GeorgeWBush #HunterBiden

[#Podcast] #LawAndDisorder, September 9, 2024 #September11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked "It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The #GeorgeWBush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged #EndlessWars against #Afghanistan and #Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA #PatriotAct, opened the notorious detention center at #GuantanamoBay which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for #IndefiniteDetention, initiated a wave of #CivilLiberties and #HumanRights violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others. "To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s #WarOnTerror. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. "In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the #CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of #AbuZubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda. "He became the sixth #whistleblower indicted by the #Obama administration under the #EspionageAct of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations. "In 2012, the #RalphNader family honored #Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for #CivicCourage, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers." Listen: https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/ #CIASponsoredTerror #CivilRights, #CriminalizingDissent #ExtraordinaryRendition #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IraqWar #BushAdministraiton #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolation #TargetingMuslims #Torture #WarResister #Whistleblowers #CivilLiberties #CivilLibertiesRadio #EndlessWar

In #HamdanVRumsfeld, decided on #ThisDayInHistory in 2006, #SCOTUS ruled against the #GeorgeWBush admin.'s plan to use military tribunals for the people in its #GuantánamoBay #ConcentrationCamp, noting this violated both the #UniformCodeOfMilitaryJustice & the #GenevaConventions.

In what proved to be a monumentally embarrassing speech, #GeorgeWBush stood on the aircraft carrier #USSAbrahamLincoln on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003 and announced that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended". Occupation & civil war lasted a decade, and US troops never left.

I just watched an episode of Masters of Horror called Homecoming directed by Joe Dante. Almost all of Dante's movies are political but you often need to interpret. In 2005 he had something to say about the Iraq War and George W. Bush. This time there was no subtlety involved. Homecoming is not great. If it had been purely black humor it might have worked better but it also tries to be sentimental which falls flat. As a political statement I love it. If you want the spoiler summary .... #JoeDante #MastersOfHorror #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar