I totally support James Talarico’s bid for the U.S. Senate, but I have to disagree with his assertion that Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in the country. Alright, you might argue he’s tied, but there’s no way he beats out the person who currently resides in an executive mansion that said person has largely destroyed.
Here’s the latest:
Just weeks after President Donald Trump urged Americans to “go out and buy a Dell” and months after he bought millions of dollars worth of stock in the company, the computer giant was awarded a $9.7 billion Pentagon contract.
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After the president’s remarks, the value of Dell stocks surged by 14.6% to an all-time high of just under $264 before settling at just over $260 by the end of the day.
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During his frenetic burst of stock trading in the first three months of the year, Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million in Dell stock on February 10, according to financial disclosure forms, when the stock traded at $126 per share.
Months later, at a Mother’s Day event on May 8, he publicly shilled for the company’s products—a possible violation of White House ethics policy—and lavished praise upon the Dell family:
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The contract would have raised scrutiny regardless, given the Dell family’s proximity to Trump in his second term. CEO Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, have pledged $6.25 billion to help fund the so-called “Trump accounts” that were part of the president’s 2025 mega budget legislation, a policy that critics have described as a tax shelter for the wealthy.
This tied the Dell family fortune to Trump’s political agenda. In recent months, he’s also hitched it to his own personal wealth.
Okay, I admit that this may not be the most corrupt thing he’s done, but it’s more corrupt than anything any other president has ever done, even more corrupt than anything Sam Alito, John Roberts, or Clarence Thomas has done. (No need for a link for Alito and Thomas, everyone knows about them.)
I’m absolutely sure that if you search through the back pages of the New York Times you’ll be able to read all about this, but be quick about it because they’ll only mention it once. It was, after all, far more important to run endless stories about Hillary’s emails, or the claim that Al Gore never made that he invented the internet, and anyway, everyone knows Trump is corrupt so one more example just isn’t news. And don’t expect Democrats to be hounding the press for not covering this like it would if it were a Democrat doing it. That would be so impolite.