Washington, D.C. — Capital Research Center is bankrolled by the same dark-money network funding the voter turnout machine it claims to be exposing. Trump’s media company is charging Wall Street for early access to his market-moving posts. And the Justice Department is quietly closing the book on corporate wrongdoing.
Capital Research Center Attacks Voter Registration While Its Own Funders Bankroll The Same Thing
Capital Research Center built its brand manufacturing panic about charities registering voters, insisting nonpartisan get-out-the-vote work is really a “backdoor” for outside money to swing elections. Funny, then, that CRC never turns that lens on itself. The Bradley Impact Fund, one of the dark-money vehicles that has funneled more than $23.6 million to Turning Point USA since 2014, is also a CRC funder. So is Donors Trust, which has routed nearly $4 million to TPUSA since 2020. TPUSA runs its own aggressive campus voter registration and turnout operation, and nobody at CRC has ever called that a threat to election integrity.
Trump Is Selling Wall Street Advance Access to His Market-Moving Posts
Trump’s media company wants to charge traders as much as $100,000 a month for a faster look at his Truth Social posts before the rest of the country sees them, and members of Congress are calling it out. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the scheme “the exact definition of insider trading.” Senator Mark Warner is urging the financial industry’s top trade groups to publicly reject the arrangement, warning it hands the president a way to personally cash in on his own government announcements. Trump is building a business selling front-running rights to his own presidency, and Republicans can’t even pretend to defend it.
DOJ Quietly Stops Prosecuting Corporations Even When It Has the Evidence
The Trump Justice Department has walked away from charging companies for wrongdoing, even in cases where prosecutors believed executives were personally involved, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. In matters involving Alibaba, EagleBank, and Abbott Laboratories, the department let the companies off the hook entirely. So far this year, just 12 companies have pleaded guilty to federal charges, with a handful more settling through deferred prosecution agreements. This administration is sending a loud-and-clear message to corporate America: if you’re connected enough, Trump’s DOJ will look the other way.
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