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John Cole

Reporter · US

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · John Cole

    The family that grifts together | Editorial (opens the original)

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    Donald Trump is not the only Trump profiting from the presidency. Nearly everyone in the Trump family is cashing in, raising concerns about self-dealing and hundreds of potential conflicts of interest. While relatives of past presidents sought to make money off their family name — see: Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, and Hunter Biden — no one has been anywhere near as brazen or greedy. Nor has anyone dared to mix policy with profiteering like the Trump family. It is all part of Trump’s shamel

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · John Cole

    For Trump’s underlings, too much is never enough | Editorial (opens the original)

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    For Donald Trump’s underlings, public service has become a bacchanal. A rogues’ gallery of billionaires, incompetents, and self-dealers crowds insatiably around the public trough. Trump’s return to the White House has set an unprecedented bar for corruption, pocket lining, and abuse of power. But beyond the one-man profligacy, many of Trump’s underlings have joined in on the self-dealing as the rot spreads across the government. The upshot: Trump’s own Art of the Steal has morphed into

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · John Cole

    Pardon me, Mr. President! | Editorial (opens the original)

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    Donald Trump has abused his power in many ways, but one of the most grotesque is through his perversion of presidential pardons. At the same time Trump has misused the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute perceived political enemies, he has turned presidential pardons into a cottage industry, focused on freeing donors and business allies. This abuse of power rewards cronyism and distorts the idea that everyone is equal under the law. In Trump’s warped view, any allies with the right connect

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · John Cole

    There’s gold in that thar swamp! | Editorial (opens the original)

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    In Donald Trump’s world, public service pays better than being a real estate mogul. Trump has been lining his pockets since he returned to the White House. His sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have been cashing in, too. So has his wife, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and other cronies in the Trump administration. In just his first year back in office, Trump made more than $2.2 billion — an unheard-of sum for any previous president, and more than he ever made in any of his years as a private businessman

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