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ihaveaquestion

(4,603 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:54 PM Dec 2025

Trump's Family is Shockingly Corrupt. Why Doesn't Anyone Care? (w/ John Prideaux) Mona Charen Show



Dec 8, 2025 The Mona Charen Show
Mona Charen sits down with John Prideaux of The Economist to talk about the brazen corruption of Trump’s second term—foreign governments showering him with luxury gifts, crypto windfalls, tariff favoritism, donor pardons, and a lobbying apparatus built around flattering one man.


Mona Charon is one of my least favorite former republican never-trumpers, but this is a show about the pumkinface's corruption - a topic which could be a major wedge issue for the Democrats if they can get the messaging right. No one likes the government mis-spending their money, right?

The article discussed is at this link https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/20/welcome-to-anything-goes-america
It is unfortunately behind the Economist's paywall, which I also cannot read.

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Trump's Family is Shockingly Corrupt. Why Doesn't Anyone Care? (w/ John Prideaux) Mona Charen Show (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Dec 2025 OP
shockingly corrupt? to us maybe rampartd Dec 2025 #1
We care C_U_L8R Dec 2025 #2
It's not messaging as much as it is the people.. The MSM doesn't care because it is a benefactor of that corruption. LuvLoogie Dec 2025 #3
Half the country can't afford a flat tire. Kid Berwyn Dec 2025 #4
knr UTUSN Dec 2025 #5

rampartd

(4,503 posts)
1. shockingly corrupt? to us maybe
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:01 PM
Dec 2025

but to the repubs they just want to get while the getting is good.

C_U_L8R

(49,294 posts)
2. We care
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:03 PM
Dec 2025

the corruption is so pervasive, it seems no one knows what to do about it. Even state AG’s seem intimidated into paralysis.

LuvLoogie

(8,772 posts)
3. It's not messaging as much as it is the people.. The MSM doesn't care because it is a benefactor of that corruption.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:04 PM
Dec 2025

And the Star-Bellied Sneeches don't want the Plain-Bellied on their beaches.

Kid Berwyn

(24,086 posts)
4. Half the country can't afford a flat tire.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:20 PM
Dec 2025

So, maybe most people think they have more "pressing" issues, Mona.

Of course, if they knew who was responsible for their lives being so shitty that a flat tire can snowball into bankruptcy they might vote the scoundrels out, but you know what human memories are like in these days of elevated blood Pb and CO2 levels.

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