Daily Take: Pardons, Policy, and Profits: Where Does Governance End and Grift Begin?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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If nearly every major financial tie seems to intersect with favorable political outcomes, are Americans confronting systemic corruption or something new and even more entrenched?
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| 1:00.1 | Partons, policy, and profits. Where does governance end and grift begin? |
| 1:06.3 | Last night in the State of the Union, we watched the most corrupt president and presidency in the history of America lie his way through a fascist-friendly speech. |
| 1:16.5 | He didn't mention how Richie's made himself and his kids off the presidency as he tried to paint in a good light what is, frankly, the most dishonorable, unprincipled, and criminal regime in the history of the free world. |
| 1:28.8 | Rumors have been flying for years ever since Rudy Giuliani apparently confessed during |
| 1:33.4 | Trump's first term that he and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million each and splitting the money. |
| 1:38.5 | The Trump has added it again, taking what looks like bribes for everything from pardons to business deals |
| 1:44.0 | to regulatory and |
| 1:45.1 | tariff relief. And the evidence is piling up in ways that are unmistakable. For example, Jud Leggham's |
| 1:51.5 | popular info news site is reporting that the parent company of Crypto.com has made a series of |
| 1:57.3 | donations to Trump's main SuperPack, MA, Inc., amounting to $35 million. |
| 2:02.5 | That SuperPack has already paid tens of millions for Trump's legal fees, apparently, including |
| 2:07.2 | personal defense lawyers and business deal lawyers, and can support Trump's lavish lifestyle |
| 2:12.4 | once he leaves office. Shortly after the donation, as Legham reports, quote, 25 days later on February 17th, |
| 2:21.1 | the Trump administration's Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the CFTC, intervened on |
| 2:25.9 | crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes lawsuit in federal court. But that's just the tip of this |
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