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One of the Trump family's companies this week unveiled the latest in their long line of moneymaking schemes, and according to the D.C. insiders at Pod Save America, it constitutes "truly one of the most wildly corrupt things that has ever happened."
President Donald Trump, his family and their many business holdings have been doggedly determined to milk as much money as possible out of his second term through an unending parade of schemes and grifts. As Trump himself admitted in a recent interview, he has felt no compunction about profiting off his station after realizing that no one would stop him if he did.
Earlier this week, the Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Trump's Truth Social platform, announced its intention to sell early access to "market-moving" posts on the platform from some of its "highest-ranking" accounts. The president is by far and away the biggest account on Truth Social, with his continued use of it over other social media sites being essentially the only reason it still exists. In effect, the plan appears to be selling early access to Trump's posts so that banks and traders can take advantage of how they will impact the stock market.
In one of the most recent episodes of the podcast, the former Obama administration officials at Pod Save America dug into the news, calling it an alarming new low for Trump's corrupt second-term pursuits.
"Why don't they just start asking the Treasury to print money for the Trumps?" co-host Jon Favreau, the former head speechwriter for Barack Obama, said. "That is, I don't know why we're going through all of these schemes and this and that. Everything's so complicated. Just go to [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent, ask him to start printing money, put it in your pocket, walk away."
The other co-host, former senior Obama comms advisor Dan Pfeiffer, did not mince words with his reaction to the news.
"This is truly one of the most wildly corrupt things that has ever happened," Pfeiffer said. "And that's saying a lot."
Pfeiffer also stressed that, despite the fact that Truth Social is a "stupid platform" that few people outside of political circles pay attention to, Trump's posts there are legitimate presidential statements. In effect, he said, this new plan from the Trump Media & Technology Group would be akin to past presidential administrations giving Wall Street early access to official speeches or press releases.
"Example: president announces a new ceasefire with Iran, you can use that to buy oil futures," Pfeiffer explained. "He says the end of the ceasefire, you can sell your oil futures faster than anyone else because you have paid money to the president to get access to that market-moving information before everyone else in this country."
He further suggested that the move represented an "abuse of power" from Trump, as well as an example of "a high crime and a misdemeanor," referring to the sorts of offenses for which a president could be impeached.
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Trump staffer just revealed the existence of Trump’s secret “if I die” contingency letter left for JD Vance. Tommy Vietor is joined by Jack Cocchiarella @JackCocchiarellaShow to break it all down. 
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Apr 22, 2026 Pod Save the World
Tommy and Ben break down another chaotic and consequential week in global affairs. Trump blinks and extends the ceasefire with Iran, but the Strait of Hormuz remains closed as US-Iran negotiations stall. Meanwhile, an internal power struggle between Iran's elected leaders and military is complicating talks, and the human cost for ordinary Iranians continues to mount. In Lebanon, Trump stunned Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu by publicly ordering Israel to stop bombing, but the IDF continues to occupy southern Lebanon, and an explosive image of an IDF soldier desecrating a statue of Jesus Christ threatens to erode evangelical support for Israel.
The guys also dig into the sprawling conflicts of interest and corruption plaguing Trump's foreign policy team: Jared Kushner's billion-dollar Gulf slush fund, Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s drone grift, and the Trump family’s foray into the crypto and fusion energy business. Finally, they talk about the historic election results in Hungary and Bulgaria,
Trump’s slow-rolling regime change efforts in Cuba, and reports that FBI Director Kash Patel is such a sloppy drunk that he’s become a threat to national security. Then Tommy is joined by former USAID official Nicholas Enrich to talk about his new book, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. Preorder Ben’s book All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches and subscribe to his Substack here.
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Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, Pete Hegseth vs. AI, and Max-Maxxing with Max Fisher | Crooked Media
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What happens when the AI bubble bursts, how did Meta get away with it yet again, and…is Elon “Bubba”? Max Fisher pays Offline a visit to take stock of the year in memes, conspiracy theories, and information siloes. He and Jon meet the ghosts of twitter fights past and future, compare notes on staying off their phones, and chat about what they’re watching…besides Zohran and Trump flirting.
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, ex-commander of U.S. Army Europe, has compared the MAGA rhetoric of 2025 to that of pre-Civil war southern "fire eaters"—and finds disturbing similarities in a new thinkpiece for The Bulwark.
Hertling, who, in Augustsaid that Trump's reliance on "yes-men" is, from a military standpoint, a recipe for "true strategic disaster," says that "there are echoes in our political rhetoric of the men who helped talk the United States into civil war," the onset of which, he says, "can be attributed, in part, to a group of political arsonists."
Among the 'Southern fire-eaters' to which Hertling compares to modern-day MAGA, include Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama, Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, whom, he says, "moved beyond grievance into agitation andviolence."
These agitators, Hertling says, "cultivated a rhetoric that was designed not to persuade opponents but to radicalize their many followers."
Rhett, for example, "nicknamed the “Father of Secession,” spent years insisting that South Carolina break from the Union, even as most fellow Southerners urged patience. Yancey, he says, carried that message into rallies that became "showcases of defiance," and Ruffin "celebrated violence as a necessary cleansing," Hertling explains.
While these were the major players, Hertling says, "plenty of politicians held extreme views," but it's "the tactics of the fire-eaters, studied closely, reveal a playbook we are beginning to recognize today."
Among those tactics: demonizing political opponents and claiming violence was a "patriotic duty when Washington failed to submit to their will."
And while it may be easy, Hertling says, to dismiss these fire-eaters as "relics of a slaveholding past," the temptation to do just that is dangerous.
"The tactics they used, the contempt they showed for compromise, the way they weaponized words, and the way they mobilized supporters have direct echoes today."
Hateful and violent rhetoric, Hertling notes, "makes political violence more likely," as seen more so, studies show, from the far-right than the far-left.
That violence has been seen most recently in the slaying of MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk, as well as with the murders of two at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. in May, and in June, when an elderly woman was killed by a Molotov cocktail at a peaceful protest in Boulder, Colorado
"Each of these acts had its own ideological contours, but all emerged from the same poisoned soil," Hertling says. "There is a connection between these contemporary tragedies and the fire-eaters of the pre-Civil War period: similar rhetoric."
The rhetoric, however, isn't the danger, but rather the lack of a challenge to that rhetoric that is the catalyst to violence, he says.
"The lesson is not that every fiery speech or performative political gesture portends bloodshed," he said. "The lesson is that when incendiary rhetoric or action is left unchallenged, when it attacks social norms and takes over the public square or social media, violence becomes the predictable next step."
These modern-day fire-eaters, Hertling says, are "not harmless showmen. They are dangerous instigators who are "playing with matches in a dry season."
"If we want to keep our politics from becoming a literal battleground, we must demand leaders who believe in the hard work of democracy rather than performative rhetoric—who see opponents as adversaries, but not as enemies," Hertling warns, "who see compromise not as weakness but as the essence of politics; who know that words can build trust as well as destroy it."
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Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, got into a heated argument on Friday with political podcaster Jon Favreau, who served as an advisor to former President Barack Obama.
In response to a post by Favreau on the social platform X, Miller said, "Jon: your contribution to this world will have been shilling for an Administration that mass imported illegal alien rapists, terrorists and murderers to prey on innocent Americans. Are you incapable of remorse?"
Favreau responded to the Trump aide with a similar question. "Stephen: are you incapable of being honest?" he wrote.
ALSO READ:'What on Earth?' GOP Senate chiefs of staff left puzzled by Stephen Miller’s 'arrogant' presentation
"Stop defying the courts. Stop defying Trump judges. Stop violating the Constitution. Stop disappearing people to foreign prisons. Deport who you want by following the law. Your performative hysteria isn’t doing your boss any favors," Favreau continued.
The original post of Favero to which Miller had responded was a reaction to Miller's earlier postin which he accused "the corporate media" of "waging an information warfare campaign against deportation."
The Trump administration's recent deportations have been criticized and many legal experts say they don't follow due process.
"The top agenda item of the corrupt ruling class in this country is to nullify the election result and enshrine mass migration," Miller wrote in his post.
ALSO READ:'Desperate': Ex-White House staffer rips Miller for saying J6ers were denied 'due process'
Several commentators have raised alarms over the Trump administration's refusal to comply with recent court orders regarding deportations.
Earlier this month, former United States attorney Joyce Vance saidthe Trump administration's wrongful deportationof a Maryland man to El Salvador isn't a foreign policy issue, where the president has some "latitude," but a violation of due process.
"The fight we are about to have is whether or not the president can strip people — citizens or not — of fundamental constitutional rights," she said during an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday.
Vance said the Trump administration has unwittingly put a face on its mass deportation, which is that of a dad of three kids with special needs, and who his wife wants back home for Easter celebrations in their own household. "That I think is not what this administration anticipated," she said.
ALSO READ:'Don’t you see what’s happening?' Experts call Trump’s latest moves 'full blown fascism'
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JD Vance is under fire after encouraging Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk to re-hire the 25-year old whose racist posts led to his reported resignation.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story that a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.”
“Marko Elez, a 25-year-old who is part of a cadre of Elon Musk lieutenants deployed by the Department of Government Efficiency to scrutinize federal spending, resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account,” the Journal reported.
According to The Journal, that account posted, “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” and, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”
READ MORE: Trump Inherits Biden’s ‘Astonishing’ Jobs Legacy, But Prices Are Now Climbing on His Watch
“Normalize Indian hate,” was another post, according to the Journal, which noted that it was “in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.”
“The user appeared to have a special dislike for Indian software engineers,” the WSJ added.
That account also posted, according to the Journal, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”
U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) added, “Elon Musk thinks racism is OK, as long as Twitter says so. This man should not be anywhere near our government.”
Journalist Jay Bookman, a columnist for the Georgia Recorder, also weighed in. He wrote, “I wonder what made the kid think racism had suddenly become cool. Who was he hanging out with that would make him think such a curious thing? Elon, do you know?”
READ MORE: Pam Bondi Quietly Disbands DOJ Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs
Friday morning, Musk asked his 216 million followers on his social media site X, “Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?”
As of this writing, 78% said “Yes.”
The Vice President, a Republican from Ohio, responded to Musk.
“Here’s my view,” Vance, unprompted, wrote. “I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”
Critics were quick to chastise the Vice President.
“Then bring him back! You’re the big tough guy with all the power now, right? (or at least you work with those two guys),” scolded former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau. “You don’t get to play the victim anymore and hide behind the mean journalists and the cancel culture libs. You’re in charge now. If you want to hire back the guy who says he’s ‘racist’ and couldn’t be paid to marry outside of his ethnicity – who said he wants to ‘normalize Indian hate’ – do it! Not sure I could look my family in the eye if I did something like that, but maybe you can. So live your truth, pal. Bring back the racist.”
Some were quick to remind Vance that his wife, who has faced attacks from white supremacists, is of Indian heritage.
Technology executive Anil Dash commented, “This is about the CRIME of giving this man access to the treasury — everyone already knows you don’t care about having your wife and children humiliated by your fellow MAGA racists. He’s not a child, and no one appointed him or the other known security threats at DOGE.”
Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen added, “The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
Others rejected the idea that a 25-year old is just a “kid,” especially since those posts reportedly were made last year.
“He’s either a kid who is too young and stupid to be held accountable for his actions. Or he’s an adult with a taxpayer-funded job that includes having access to American’s most sensitive information, which demands a high standards and accountability. Can’t have it both ways,” noted The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell.
“So he’s a racist kid with no impulse control, but he should have access to the system that doles out trillions of dollars of the federal budget and see all of our personal information,” observed Daily KOS’s Emily C. Singer.
Others pushed back against Vance’s attack on the media, making clear that America has a right to know.
“Setting aside everything else (i.e. ‘kid’), it would seem to be in the public interest to understand whether someone with such a consequential job is a secret racist,” wrote The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake. “That’s what reporting is. People can react how they will. He’s not only in the arena; he’s a central player.”
“I get that there’s no shame and decency left,” economics writer Joey Politano said, “you can self ID as a racist eugenicist and still have insanely important roles in this admin, but the most insulting thing here is treating a 25 year old like a uwu smol bean child who can’t be held responsible for his actions.”
“A 25-year-old is not a kid. He made blatant and disgusting racist posts in the last few months,” commented veteran Jared Ryan Sears, who writes The Pragmatic Humanist. Quoting what someone said is not ‘ruining their life’ it is reporting. It is shameful to defend such a terrible person while demonizing a journalist for reporting about him.”
Former White House correspondent Sam Youngman offered a big picture view: “Too weak to stand up for his own family. Think he’ll stand up for yours?”
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One common theme of 2024 election postmortems is that Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump because her campaign was too far-left. Zeteo News editor-in-chief and CEO Mehdi Hasan took issue with that argument.
In a video posted to X, Hasan tore into Democratic establishment figures like James Carville and Adam Jentleson who said the "far left" was holding the Democratic Party "hostage." He blasted headlines in major media outlets like the Washington Post that read: Harris defeat is a stinging verdict for the left," and a New York Times op-ed titled: "When will Democrats learn to say no?"
"Are you f—ing kidding me? This is gaslighting of Trumpian proportions," Hasan said.
READ MORE:'You're a racist disgrace': Mehdi Hasan unloads on JD Vance over late-night post
"There was nothing 'left wing' about Harris. I mean, the centrists literally got the presidential candidate they wanted: A tough-on-crime prosecutor who bragged about owning a gun and spoke about her love for a 'lethal' military," he continued. "A candidate who famously told migrants: 'Don't come to this country.'" And, during the one and only presidential debate, attacked Trump for not backing a bipartisan and very draconian border security bill."
Hasan went on to bash arguments that the vice president's campaign was too left-wing "ridiculous," "detached from reality" and "demonstrably and obviously false." He noted that she didn't once use the phrase "Latinx" or "defund the police" on the campaign stump, and "barely said anything about transgender rights." And he noted that in 2020, when "defund the police" was a more common saying, Democrats won the White House.
"It's as clear as day. Harris did not run a left-wing campaign. She didn't run on Medicare for All. She didn't run on student debt relief. She didn't run on a Green New Deal. And she didn't break with Joe Biden on Gaza," he said. "So when you say she ran 'left,' what on earth are you talking about?"
"This is a presidential candidate who campaigned way more with Liz Cheney and Mark Cuban than with AOC and Shawn Fain. Who listened to her brother-in-law, the chief legal officer of Uber, than to Bernie Sanders," Hasan added. "The truth is, in 2016 and again in 2020, the Democratic establishment united to block Bernie Sanders, an actual leftist, from becoming their nominee. And in 2024, due to Joe Biden's stubbornness, they didn't even have a contest, just a coronation."
READ MORE:Harris visits border to talk immigration policy and target Trump
"So look, the centrists, the moderates, got their candidate in every single election in which the Republicans nominated Donald Trump: 2016, Hillary Clinton. 2020, Joe Biden. 2024, Kamala Harris. And they lost to Trump two out of three times," he concluded. "And now they're going to blame the left for that? No f—ing way."
Watch Hasan's full video below, or by clicking this link.
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The President sides with a murderous tyrant over advisors and allies, the Attorney General targets Trump’s political enemies, and the Democratic candidates fight for media attention in a crowded field. Then ACLU attorney Chase Strangio talks to Jon L. about the Trump administration’s most recent attempt to roll back civil rights for transgender Americans.
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