Another "Teapot Dome" scandal ..... (only much MUCH worse)

[some_of_us_are_sane]

GREAT ARTICLE in "The Guardian":

"The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $6m today. Last year, Donald Trump made at least $2.2bn; his single year of income is on the order of 200 to 300 times larger than the bribe that defined “presidential corruption” in the American imagination for a century."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jul/16/justin-sun-trump-family-crypto

[usonian]

1. Blame the enablers!

"Just boys being boys!"

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. I'll second that!

[GreenWave]

11. They simply "forgot" to check the executive power that was out of control.

[GiqueCee]

15. The Sinister Six...

... are rotten down to their DNA. There will be no redemption for any of them. They betray every lofty principle that guided the Founding Fathers, and worse, they betray America. All for corporatism. And this "originalist" horseshit is just that. If we're to interpret that literally, there would be no Amendments to the Constitution, and women wouldn't be allowed to vote, which would be just fine with the sniveling weaklings that cannot bear to afford equal standing to those of the feminine persuasion. May their days be few.
I would not cross the street to piss in their faces if they were on fire.

[oasis]

3. Lock his sorry ass up!!!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

4. That is indeed...

long past due!.

[PufPuf23]

5. The USA will not be healthy as a nation until the criminals are

prosecuted. convicted and assets seized in a manner that makes a point for any be tempted to emulate Trump or the smaller acts of grift that abound in our contemporary society.

Allowing the corruption to continue or to look forward only is the recipe for continued degradation of what should be moral and egalitarian norms. If not, the USA may continue to exist but not like anything om accord with what are allegedly our ideals, laws and Constitution.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

7. Absolutely!

WELL-SAID!

[poozwah]

6. comparison

the teapot dome is shoplifting compared to the many trump financial scandals.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

8. YEP!

Peanuts to what Trump's cadre has pocketed!

[FakeNoose]

9. Albert Fall didn't have 2 sons working the cryptocurrency scam

... nor did he have a son-in-law who flew from country to country collecting bribes so large that they could break many banks. The Chump Family is the biggest crime syndicate we've ever seen and the entire family should be in prison.

[BurnDoubt]

10. Corruption of this level...

Is certainly deserving of a ride on the Gibbet.
The betrayal of Trust is Astonishing.
Retribution for this variety of Crime extended to entire bloodlines in times past.

[Initech]

12. Trump 47 is the largest political scandal in history!

All who made this hideous administration and our dirty rotten president possible, including him, must face justice.

[FakeNoose]

14. Without a doubt

[Lucky Luciano]

13. Been wondering about Warsh at the Fed and his new policy of not communicating the Fed's intentions.

He says it constrains them too much, but less guidance cannot be good. It means more shock, awe, and surprise announcements…macro bets can be made huge…I wonder who might benefit most from inside info on something with little to no guidance?