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MICHELE CASKEY's avatar

Thanks! Excellent reporting!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Appreciate it, Michele. I think the related post at the end also adds to filling in the blanks with the big story.

MICHELE CASKEY's avatar

It did, so excellent and so scary!!

David Stevens's avatar

Mr Jackson, you write well. There is an important meeting happening right now in the USA, and, so far, only Substacker The Uncomfortable Truth by Monica is revealing it, on July 20, 2026. 60 nations are attending this meeting (although I don't know if these are Official delegations, or vested interests). Monica's article regards "The Alien Terrorist Removal Court" being activated for the first time in several Administeations. It. Is. Terrifying. Please, sir, read, review, and write your take on Rubio's pet project.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I'll take a look, David. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

David Stevens's avatar

Thank you for positively responding to my request, Mr Jackson. When I saw that Canadian delegates were attending, my hackles rose. I know how busy you are, sir. I appreciate your investigating this matter.

Ned McDoodle's avatar

What l wrote for the re-stack

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Counsellor @Mitch Jackson does what he does best: bring together variegated, verified information to blow a mighty big whistle on what a gangster régime looks like in all its ugly *grandeur.💡

A brief video summary by Representative Levin (D-CA) explains — re-inforces Mr Jackson’s lengthier detailing of — how that régime works. And to top it all off: these gangsters are stupid. 🤢

Trump is likely to be pardoned at some point. Hopefully state R.I.C.O. laws will be able to re-capture the resources looted by the Trump syndicate headed by Team Treason in the 0val 0ffice.⚖️

Mitch Jackson's avatar

We're researching and writing a follow-up post tentatively titled: Pigs of War

It should drop in a day or two.

Ned McDoodle's avatar

Yeah!

cornelia gyura's avatar

I am so tired of the word “investigate”. I prefer “clean up” without getting into details. Sometimes we have to make hard decisions to get the boat back on track.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Solid point. For me, I really don't care what you call it, because what I think we need to focus on are the facts and fixing the problems. It's a substance over form type of situation.

Genghis Khan's avatar

Those nepobabies need to be investigated if the Democrats take back the house.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Absolutely is going to happen with the power of subpoena and oversight, the power of the purse, and the separation of powers once again put into place. While this happens, the new Congress will begin to implement new rules and regulations designed for all Americans, not just people living in red states, and begin to enact new rules that will prevent this type of grift from happening moving forward.

Richard Nash's avatar

Will new laws be enough? The extent of this corruption, as described, exceeds the extent of the Emoluments Clauses when family members (supposedly operating a business independent of the President) can use influence and the outside investors approach to accomplish the same ends. Plus the decision if emoluments do not involve a President's "routine" commercial transactions. This President mixes personal "deals" with the nation's contracts or trade arrangements.

I have to wonder if individual laws are not comprehensive enough. Perhaps an amendment to both Article 1 and 2 where Emoluments Clauses are specified might be a better alternative - especially when it comes to this Supreme Court and its erratic interpretations. Only drawback is the time this could take.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Laws without enforcement, whether they're old or new, mean very little in the short run. We need to focus on making sure we have a Congress in place where the majority will exercise their powers of oversight, powers of the purse, and separation of powers. That's both the short- and long-term solution.

J Glaspie's avatar

WHEN the Democrats take back the house....

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Absolutely, and with a bit of hard work and strong voter turnout, possibly the Senate too.

Ellen Biemer's avatar

The U.S. is paying the price of this unauthorized and unnecessary war — with lives, as well as our tax money; and inflation, which is affecting the whole world.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Every single day, we're paying this price. Congress needs to get its head out of its ass and start doing oversight and enforcing its separation of powers authority, along with controlling the power of the purse. Of course, this isn't going to happen with this Congress and this administration, and that's why the midterm elections are so damn important.

Ellen Biemer's avatar

Yes, on all counts.

And with this inflation, seniors and the disabled are set to fall farther behind. Though the Social Security raise will be high, it doesn’t keep up with inflation; and the increase will mean some losing SNAP benefits and Medicaid, because the cutoffs don’t go up commensurately — so those people will end up even further behind.

Ed Broyles's avatar

This makes me sick. How can this be legal. Other administrations have tried to use insider trading and influence before these bozos. Is it just that the Rep are just ignoring this?

Ned McDoodle's avatar

You can thank the craven quislings of my erstwhile Party. Hypocrisy accumulates into indifference to principle. For now, as a long-gone Republican and confused conservative, I lean on the words of Edmund Burke and Baron de Montesquieu.

"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half-an-hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years." –Edmund Burke, ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’; 1790.

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." – Baron de Montesquieu, ‘Spirit of Laws’; 1748.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

The combination of several things. First, the current Congress is in Trump's back pocket and would rather bend a knee and kiss his ring than do its job. To fix this, we will need to take back majority control in the midterms, which will allow for oversight, power of the purse, and separation of powers to be utilized to rein in what we're watching happen on a daily basis. The other issue is, specifically with respect to this story, much of what I wrote about isn't necessarily illegal. It's leveraging the presidential office to profit for family members, and it's clearly a conflict of interest and major financial grift. So a new Congress will need to review and institute new laws prohibiting this moving forward. That protects everyone and all Americans, regardless of what side of the aisle you're on.