Opinion | Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? (Gift Article)

NEW: I looked at a bunch of the Trump family businesses for @nytopinion.nytimes.com. They don't conform to the old caricature of corruption. They're something new, and potentially more dangerous. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

“The Trump family, once ostracized by a large part of the C-suite set, is now front and center, exerting a gravitational pull over ventures of every kind. Crypto. A.I. Rare earths. Quantum computing. Drones. Nuclear power.” By @noahshachtman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

In poly-sci, we have terms for the corruption shown by Trump: Paternalistic or "Godfather" systems. They are neither fully democratic nor fully capitalistic. They "turn the entanglements we used to regard as conflicts of interest into core operating principles." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

building towers to and of corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

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"[T]he rise of the princelings is better understood as part of a new strain of American capitalism, one that turns the entanglements we used to regard as conflicts of interest into core operating principles..." Also known as “sultanistic” oligarchies. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

By contrast, today a Times op ed told us Trump's family business profiteering shouldn't be considered corruption but is "better understood as part of a new strain of American capitalism." The level of emphasis they give to trivial D sins while whitewashing epic corruption is simply discrediting.

"Americans are grossed out by the magnitude of self-enrichment in and adjacent to the Trump administration." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o... 😳

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Let's call it what it is. Corruption, it's simple. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

funny how every once in a while @nytimes.com lets a little truth about donny shine thru almost like ags, another princeling, is suddenly hedging his big bet on donny FREE ARTICLE LINK www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) 🎁Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o... Mr. Trump will eventually leave office, but the consequences will last much, much longer.

The corruption is staggering. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Fall of the House of Usher can’t come too soon— Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o... Great report. Such brazen corruption.

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

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Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o... The biggest mob to ever exist is masquarsding as government,using oligarchs to help their stranglehold & robbery of our democracy,economy,rights,freedoms & quality of life.They think they “own” America.

Pure greed and corruption. But it’s woke to call it that.

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