All posts tagged "Trump Corruption"

James Carville confessed he's rethinking his most famous phrase because of a new threat posed by Trump.

During an episode of Politics War Room, Carville revisited his 1992 quote, "It's the economy, stupid," which he coined during the Bill Clinton campaign to hammer home what issue mattered the most. However, Carville said he now regrets the phrase because the economy doesn't matter anymore in the face of Trump's corruption.

"I now have come to detest the fact I said that," Carville said. "I listen to people say, 'People don't care about corruption. They care about the economy. As long as their incomes are up, they really don't care what [Trump] does.'"...

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper called out Trump's acceptance of luxurious gifts with a montage showing his past comments.

Cooper was doing a segment about Trump's jet that was gifted to him by Qatar while also bringing up more recent revelations of enrichment by Trump and his family through foreign deals, including in Kazakhstan and through his crypto ventures.

However, Cooper made a point about Trump's hypocrisy by playing a video from his 2016 debate with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton....

A presidential historian is sounding the alarm about a recent mining deal that's expected to enrich the Trump family.

"The audacity is so off the Richter scale," Douglas Brinkley said about a deal between the Trump administration and Kazakhstan to access one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten.

The New York Times reported on the $1.6 billion tungsten mining deal with the Central Asian country. The Times noted that the sons of both Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stand to benefit. Tungsten is used in "missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips, and other critical goods," the Times noted....

Democratic political strategist James Carville warned that more stories about corruption by the Trump administration are coming, even as the topic is already becoming more prominent.

"We're just getting warmed up on these corruption issues," Carville said on the latest episode of his show, Politics War Room. Plenty of stories are already front and center for people alarmed about corruption in the Trump administration, chiefly the anti-weaponization fund.

Carville was answering questions from viewers, including one about whether Trump will get better or worse. He said that Trump getting worse is "99.996 percent more likely," especially when it comes to stories about his corruption....