FEBRUARY 2026 – The WSJ on Jan. 31 threw back the curtain on another Trump Family grift – this time a $500 million stake from the United Arab Emirates in the Trump’s Liberty Financial crypto firm. It’s all glaringly sordid – yet such behavior by the Trumps is so commonplace that the report didn’t really shake up the cable news cycle this month, or even the vast blogosphere that gets its oxygen from such disclosures. Four reporters – Sam Kessler, Rebecca Ballhaus, Eliot Brown, Angus Berwick – earned a joint byline on a deeply researched and well outlined presentation. It’s a pattern that the WSJ news pages – whose op-ed page remains surprisingly respectful of this hopelessly corrupt and unprincipled man – have served as the principal conduit for revelations of ongoing Trump corruption. At some point – who knows when – such reporting will get the credit that it’s due. The five most popular of nearly 2,500 reader comments:
The swamp has been drained and backfilled with radioactive waste. Unreal, but not surprising
Trump selling out America again. This is what a traitor looks like
More or less what we already know – the most corrupt administration in American and probably world history.
Corruption galore. And the uneducated maga folks blame Biden. No wonder Trump loves the poorly educated and empty minded
It’s blatantly obvious that Trump is milking his position to dramatically increase his personal wealth at the expense of the American people.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8