Alleged self-dealing by the president and his allies doesn\u2019t look so good as corruption emerges as a key issue for midterm voters<\/p>\n
Government corruption a top issue for US midterm voters, exclusive poll finds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Voters under 50 probably won\u2019t remember the \u201cwelfare queen<\/a>\u201d. But she once embodied Republicans\u2019 claim of the underlying reason for US societal decay: the poor are a bunch of fraudsters.<\/p>\n Ronald Reagan introduced Linda Taylor to US voters at a rally during the Republican presidential primary season in 1976. A resident of Chicago\u2019s South Side, Taylor had been arrested for welfare fraud. \u201cShe used 80 names, 30 addresses, five phone numbers to collect food stamps, social security, veteran\u2019s benefits for four non-existing deceased veteran husbands,\u201d Reagan said. \u201cHer tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.\u201d<\/p>\n The Qatari government gifted him a luxury jet<\/a>, potentially violating the emoluments clause of the constitution.<\/p>\n The UAE gained access to some tightly guarded, high-end American AI chips soon after an investment firm linked to its ruling family secretly bought<\/a> a $500m stake in World Liberty Financial, the crypto company funded by the families of Trump and his chum Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n Rich people facing criminal charges have taken to donating to Trump\u2019s political operations<\/a> and then seeking pardons or clemency. Most recently, Wanda V\u00e1zquez Garced<\/a>, the former governor of Puerto Rico, and the banker who paid her bribes, Julio Herrera Velutini, were pardoned after Velutini\u2019s family gave a $50m deal<\/a> to Alina Habba, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer, and donated $3.5m to Trump\u2019s Maga Inc Super Pac.<\/p>\n The first family is also making a killing from the government. The Pentagon lent more than $600m <\/a>to Vulcan Elements, a rare earths startup, just three months after Donald Jr\u2019s venture capital firm 1789 Capital bought a stake in the outfit.<\/p>\n Powerus, a drone maker backed by Eric and Donald Jr<\/a> is selling drone interceptors to Persian Gulf allies of the US that are under attack by Iran, enriching the kids from a misbegotten war launched by the dad without consulting Congress.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alleged self-dealing by the president and his allies doesn\u2019t look so good as corruption emerges as a key issue for midterm voters Government corruption a top issue for US midterm voters, exclusive poll finds Voters under 50 probably won\u2019t remember the \u201cwelfare queen\u201d. But she once embodied Republicans\u2019 claim of the underlying reason for US … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}