2026-10-27 18:00POLITICSTrump Administration Corruption: Research DigestThe week of October 20-27, 2026 produced what may be the single most damaging corruption story of the Trump presidency so far: investigative journalist Matthew Cole's boo…2026-10-27 03:01POLITICSTrump Administration Corruption: Research DigestThe single biggest story of the week is the Vanity Fair excerpt from Matthew Cole's forthcoming book "Princes and Thieves," which alleges that Jared Kushner had access to…2026-10-26 18:01POLITICSTrump Administration Corruption: Research DigestThe Trump administration reached the end of 2026 with so many corruption stories running at once that none of them counts as the main one. In the space of a single month …
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