Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering

We can say this much about Donald Trump, his advisers, and their many servants in other branches of government: They are prolific coverup artists, but poor craftsmen.

This became evident in Trump’s first term—indeed even in his first campaign—but the pattern has accelerated in his second, as the criminality has become more rampant. They most famously botched the Epstein files coverup. And now two more coverups—both involving the exploitation of state secrets for private profit—are unraveling simultaneously.

The underlying scandals are distinct, and separated by years, but now threaten to collide.

One was supposed to have been put to bed when Trump won the 2024 election, effectively terminating Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump’s theft and concealment of highly classified documents. Aileen Cannon, the corrupt, Trump-appointed judge in that case, had already ordered the case dismissed on frivolous grounds. When Trump won, the government withdrew from its appeal, all but ensuring he would never face trial. And to complete the coverup, Cannon issued a protective order sealing Smith’s official report on the investigation, so that the public couldn’t read it.

This coverup began to fall apart on Wednesday, when Trump’s Justice Department accidentally produced documents from Smith’s report to Congress that speak to Trump’s motive.

The document-production process stemmed from an ongoing Republican effort to discredit Smith—to pile dirt on top of the coverup—through selective disclosure. In their haste and sloppiness, DOJ officials accidentally confirmed that all this secrecy is about more than simply protecting Trump from embarrassment. It shows that prosecutors believed Trump stole classified information—which included planning documents for war against Iran—for personal profit.

In a January 13, 2023 memorandum, which was brought to light by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, “prosecutors wrote that the [FBI] has determined that the classified documents President Trump retained from the White House ‘were commingled with documents created after Trump left office.’ FBI has also found that certain classified documents President Trump improperly retained ‘would be pertinent to certain business interests.’ DOJ prosecutors further assessed that these’“classified documents pertinent to his business interests’ established ‘a motive for retaining them.’”

That’s the first faltering coverup.

The second stems from the fact that political insiders who trade on government secrets leave breadcrumbs for investigators. On March 16, Trump loyalists ousted the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the few federal regulators with jurisdiction to investigate insider trading. She had reportedly “clashed with agency leaders over the direction of its enforcement program, including the handling of cases with ties to President Donald Trump and his family.” Then on Monday, just a few minutes before Trump announced a phased de-escalation of his war against Iran, an individual or individuals with advanced knowledge of his plans bet hundreds of millions of dollars that oil prices would drop, reaping over a billion dollars in profit.

This was just the most conspicuous trade. On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran. Here’s one example from Polymarket.

Are these Trump insiders or merely reckless speculators? Would you place bets this large if you were shooting in the dark? Or has Trump created a culture of corruption through his own profiteering, in which getting rich off state secrets, stealing from other investors, and endangering U.S. service members has become standard practice?