I'm exposing it all...

I want to talk about something that has been sitting heavy with me for a while now, because the scale of it is becoming impossible to ignore. The United States is being openly sold off, piece by piece, and it is happening at the very top of our government.

What we are witnessing under Donald Trump is not normal corruption. It is not even familiar corruption. It is a top-down pay-for-play scheme centered on the presidency itself, where money flows in and power flows out in return.

The person who is supposed to act as a bulwark against corruption has instead turned the Oval Office into a clearinghouse.

Consider what just happened earlier this month. Trump quietly pardoned a former Honduran president who had been convicted of trafficking roughly 500 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. This was not a minor offense. This was a drug trafficking operation explicitly aimed at flooding American communities with cocaine for profit.

And yet, Trump wiped it away.

We are still waiting for a clear explanation as to why. What we do know is that this pardon came amid growing reports that foreign actors and convicted criminals are funneling money into Trump-linked cryptocurrency ventures, including Trump-branded coins created just before his inauguration.

That timing matters.

On the eve of taking office, Trump leveraged the hype of his presidency to launch Trumpcoin, Melaniacoin, and related crypto projects. These are largely untraceable assets. Since then, Trump’s net worth has reportedly increased by roughly four to five billion dollars in under a year.

For context, Joe Biden’s net worth rose by about three million dollars over four years in office, largely due to long-held real estate investments. That is what normal looks like. A multibillion-dollar spike driven by monetizing the presidency is not normal. It is unprecedented.

And the corruption does not stop with crypto.

Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on countries across the globe, then quietly lifted or adjusted those tariffs after receiving personal or political favors in return. He imposed tariffs on Brazil while pressuring the country to alter its political system and pardon Jair Bolsonaro. That is economic coercion in service of authoritarian allies.

He accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar. Shortly after, Qatar was permitted to conduct training exercises on U.S. soil and was allowed to subsidize a multi-billion-dollar Trump golf course project. These are not coincidences. This is transactional governance.

Then there is the case of Justin Sun, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur once barred from entering the United States due to alleged fraud and market manipulation. According to Bloomberg, after tens of millions of dollars flowed into Trump-linked crypto ventures, Sun’s legal fortunes changed dramatically. He is now doing business with the Trump family while his SEC troubles fade into the background.

This pattern repeats again and again.

Major donors to Trump’s super PAC and personal projects receive lenient Justice Department treatment, government contracts, pardons, or prestigious appointments. One family donated millions, and their son was nominated as U.S. ambassador. Another company donated heavily and saw a co-founder pardoned. Engineering firms, tech executives, and defense contractors line up with checks, and policy follows.

This is what pay-for-play looks like when it is no longer hidden.

What makes this moment especially disturbing is how openly it is happening. Administration officials have described two pardon tracks. One official process, and another far faster one where individuals simply find Trump at Mar-a-Lago or a White House event and ask directly. All it takes are the words “unjust persecution,” and the machinery starts moving.

That is not justice. That is feudalism.

I’m 23 years old, and this is the America I am expected to accept. An America where drug traffickers are pardoned, crypto scammers are rewarded, and the presidency is treated like a private asset. An America where the line between government power and personal profit has effectively vanished.

I think about family members I have who are constantly targeted by scams. I think about communities ravaged by drugs. I think about how dangerous it is to normalize this kind of behavior at the highest level of power.

And I think about how much worse it gets if we stop paying attention.

Trump supporters often justify all of this by insisting Democrats did it first, or that “everyone does it.” But the scale matters. The proof matters. And the brazenness matters. This is not hypothetical. It is documented. It is unfolding in real time.

I wanted to put this down clearly, in one place, because corruption thrives on exhaustion and forgetfulness. And I refuse to forget what is happening to this country in front of our eyes.

Thank you for taking the time to read today. I’ll continue documenting this as it unfolds, because accountability starts with remembering.

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