While Donald Trump’s election victory caught many people by surprise, much is already known about what the new Trump administration might bring. For months, we’ve been working to uncover Trump’s plans for a second term. Here’s additional reporting on what to expect as Trump returns to the White House.
Among the most pressing issues is the fact that Trump’s top Senate ally is working to ensure Trump is able to handpick his own ethics overseer, the person in charge of ensuring Trump and his appointees comply with ethics laws. If successful, the move could have major implications for tech billionaire and Trump booster Elon Musk, since the ethics chief will determine whether Musk needs to divest from conflicts of interest if he’s appointed to an official administration role, as he’s requested — and if so, whether he’s entitled to a gargantuan tax break.
We tracked the unprecedented spread of untraceable dark money in the 2024 presidential campaign and how it was used to fund the far-right plan for Trump’s second term, suppress voting, and blackmail legislators into surrendering to oligarchs. And we were among the first outlets to sound the alarm about cryptocurrency companies launching a political spending spree to influence the election.
Since Trump has abandoned all pretense of opposing corporate power, the stage is now set for even more untraceable corporate money flooding into politics. Vice…
Auteur: Joel Warner
