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Trump Family Foreign Deals: Abuse of Office, Hunter Biden Redux, or Illegal?

The Trump Org did zero foreign deals in term one and eight in term two, plus crypto billions from foreign-linked entities. We check the facts and answer three questions: abuse, hypocrisy, legality.

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Did Trump Buy a Taser Maker's Stock Before ICE Sought a $220M Deal?

A viral tweet says Trump bought Axon stock two weeks before ICE went looking for $220M in tasers, and that it's 'super illegal.' The trade is real and CNBC-documented. The 'illegal' part is not.

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Does This Deal Stink? Trump's Crypto Firm Becomes a Bank

World Liberty Financial — the Trump-family crypto firm — is about to get a federal bank charter from Trump's own OCC appointee. It's legal (the president is exempt from the conflict statute) but a…

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America's Former Top Security Adviser Is Now a Paid Agent for a Putin Ally

Trump's first national security adviser registered under FARA for the Republic of Srpska — a Bosnian Serb entity led by Putin ally Milorad Dodik — at $100K/month, part of an $8.9M lobbying blitz…

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3,711 Trades: A Fact-Check of Trump's Presidential Stock Portfolio

Trump filed 3,711 stock trades worth $220M-$750M in Q1 2026 — including unsolicited purchases in companies he praised the same day, contradicting blind-trust claims and exploiting a legal exemption…

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GamerGate: The Full Story — Facts, Misinformation, and the Culture War That Changed the Internet

GamerGate began as a debunked accusation about a game developer, morphed into a self-described ethics movement, but data shows it primarily targeted women with coordinated harassment — and became…

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The Record: A Documented Moral Audit of Donald Trump From Birth to Now

A category-by-category audit of Trump's documented actions against common moral standards — 34 felony convictions, sexual abuse liability, charity fraud, stiffed workers, separated children,…

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