{"id":93063,"date":"2026-06-10T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93063"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:42:48","slug":"trump-and-toxic-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/10\/trump-and-toxic-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, and toxic power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about toxic power this morning, and then I noticed this from Tom Bergin (an old friend) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigations\/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and others in Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21-550x326.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21-550x326.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21-506x300.png 506w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21-600x356.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-11.38.21.png 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report appears to be easily accessible.<\/p>\n<p>This is what toxic power looks like. Trump and his family have simply fleeced gullible Americans (and maybe others) who believed in them, and should not have done.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know why we need to tackle toxic power, this is one reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about toxic power this morning, and then I noticed this from Tom Bergin (an old friend) and others in Reuters: The report appears<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/10\/trump-and-toxic-power\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,204,224,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93065,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93063\/revisions\/93065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}