American democracy seems rigged because it is: Robert Reich
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
Category: Corruption
Trump Golf Count: $84,000,000 Billed to Taxpayers, So Far
Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 70 visits. The last recorded...
Big Oil’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite the Country’s Car Emissions Rules
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers,...
Trump’s Panama tower used for money laundering, reports say
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
Audit Shows that a Corrupt Pentagon Can’t Explain Where $800 Million of Taxpayer Money Went
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
David Cay Johnston on Tax Cheating: It’s Not Just The Trumps
In radio shows and talks from London to Boston to Richmond, Ind., people keep asking me how the Trump family got...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Tobacco Companies Spending Millions To Defeat Healthcare Expansion In Midterms
Tobacco companies are pouring millions of dollars into the midterms this year, trying to fight off tax increases on their deadly products...
The Trump Family’s Pump and Dump Scam
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Senator Bernie Sanders: Trump ‘Lying About Medicare for All’
In reaction to President Donald Trump’s op-ed on Wednesday—titled, “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors“—Sen. Bernie...
More Republicans Get Caught Lying On Climate Change
Climate change deniers aren’t crazy… they’re lying. John Iadarola takes on Senator Marco Rubio and other right-wingers on climate change… Read more…
NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Corrupt Trump Sued For Illegally Taking Gifts From Foreign Governments
On Friday evening, just as he was dealing with a setback to his Supreme Court nomination, President Donald Trump got a fresh...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
The Trump Archives: A Trail of Money Laundering
Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump. If he needs to...
Trump Gang Shifted Money from FEMA to ICE Ahead of Hurricane Season
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported Tuesday night that President Donald Trump’s administration took nearly $10 million funds from FEMA’s budget and...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Deniers
A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11...
Trump’s History of Laundering Russian Mafia Money Through His Properties
Author Craig Unger has been following Donald Trump’s dealings in Russia since his 1987 visit–at the behest of the Russian...
Russian Mob ‘Made its Move’ on Trump After a String of Trump Bankruptcies: Documentary Filmmaker
A documentary filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to talk about what he’s found while researching “Active Measures,”...
Trump’s DOJ Has Almost Completely Stopped Prosecuting White Collar Criminals
White collar criminal prosecutions and fines are not just plummeting under the Trump administration – they appear to be disappearing...
Trump Investigator David Cay Johnston Warns that Russia Has ‘More Than 30 Years’ of Blackmail Material on the President
Pulitzer-winning journalist David Cay Johnston said Tuesday on CNN that President Donald Trump is compromised by more than 30 years...
For the conniving Donald Trump, ‘Made in America’ is not important with Trump-branded products
Donald Trump hosted an event at the White House yesterday in celebration of American-made products, and as is too often...
Corrupt NRA And Russians Have Been Colluding For Years
News Flash. Russian citizens do not have gun rights. They never had gun rights. They don’t need protection from anyone...
Big Oil Is Peddling Misinformation About Electric Cars
Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 2001–2003. With experience...
Disgraced Scott Pruitt To Be Replaced At The EPA By The Even More Appalling Andrew Wheeler
Following the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President Donald Trump announced that the...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to...
Scott Pruitt Caught Lying Again About His 24/7, 20-Man Security Team
The request for Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary level of security didn’t come from the inspector general, and wasn’t the result of...
Senate Report Finds Russia Used the Corrupt NRA to Help Elect Trump
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Adam Schiff Says Trump Broke The Law With $500 Million Illegal Chinese Kickback
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump committed a certain Emoluments Clause...
Trump’s Drug Pricing Scam
Trump promised to rein in drug prices. It was his only sensible campaign promise. But the plan he announced Friday...
AT&T Paid Trump Fixer Michael Cohen For Advice On Its Proposed $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner
AT&T paid Trump fixer Michael Cohen $600,000 for advice on its multibillion-dollar proposed merger with Time Warner, the Washington Post...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
Republican Report May Provide Proof of Trump Treason
When Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, we learned more information...
Professed Christian Paul Ryan Fires House Chaplain For Praying About GOP Tax Bill
WASHINGTON ― House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
Trump’s Corrupt Consumer Protection Chief Admits He Only Meets With People Who Give Him Money
Mick Mulvaney, the man that Donald Trump personally picked to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, admitted to a room...
Report: Trump businesses corral millions from political and taxpayer spending
Donald Trump’s US businesses have raked in $15.1m in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since he began his...
Death At Trump Tower Comes After Trump Fought Fire Safety Laws And Never Installed Sprinklers
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
One of the Trump Swamp’s Biggest Swindlers, Scott Pruitt, Under Fire
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
Robert Reich: As President’s go, we’ve had our share of crooks, bigots and incompetents, but never all three at once.
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew...
Corrupt NRA Caught Taking Russian Cash
Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money,...
Elizabeth Warren Tells HUD Chief Ben Carson He Should Be Fired For Not Enforcing The Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon and the White Supremacist Mercer Family Caught Rigging Elections Worldwide
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
The Rich Guys in Trump’s Cabinet Who Can’t Resist Spending Public Money on Themselves
The revelation that the US housing secretary, Ben Carson, and his wife selected a $31,000 dining set for his office...
Biggest Koch Whore In Congress Is New US Secretary Of State
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
