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Flagrant Corruption -- Digby -- Derek Thompson
https://digbysblog.net/2026/04/23/flagrant-corruption/Derek Thompson notes:
Reporters and Democrats should confront every single Republican about this relentlessly. They stalked and hunted Hunter Biden over something that had happened nearly a decade before, criminally indicted him and tried to destroy him. And they come back with this? They might as well be spitting in our faces.
The corruption is so blatant now that the Democrats simply have to put it front and center. If they don't the people are going to conclude they're in on it.
I know it's a bit downmarket these days to point out Trump's crookedness and hypocrisy but MAGA simply cannot stop speedrunning the plot of Animal Farm, becoming everything they claimed to despise about the previous regime, except more so.
Like, for four years, a central attack on Joe Biden was that Hunter was trading on the family name. They even launched a congressional investigation, iirc. Now they either say nothing or enthusiastically cheer on the president's kids as they run a cryptocurrency exchange, a bitcoin mining operation, a luxury real estate brand, and a social media company, all of which are getting money from foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds.
Here Eric Trump is appearing on TV as an adviser to a company that just won a $24 million Pentagon contract! And Fox Business is like: "way to go, Eric, we're proud of you, you really knocked this one out of the park."
Reporters and Democrats should confront every single Republican about this relentlessly. They stalked and hunted Hunter Biden over something that had happened nearly a decade before, criminally indicted him and tried to destroy him. And they come back with this? They might as well be spitting in our faces.
The corruption is so blatant now that the Democrats simply have to put it front and center. If they don't the people are going to conclude they're in on it.