In this Live, we dug into one of the most under-covered corruption stories of the moment: the Cantor Fitzgerald tariff scheme quietly unfolding behind the scenes of the Trump administration. While Americans are struggling under inflated prices caused by Trump’s tariffs, Howard Lutnick — Trump’s Commerce Secretary — and his twenty-something sons are buying up the rights to massive tariff refunds from near-bankrupt importers. They’re paying pennies on the dollar for refunds that could balloon into tens or even hundreds of billions if the Supreme Court rules Trump’s tariffs illegal. It’s insider trading in everything but name, enabled by a White House that treats corruption as a governing philosophy.
We also tackled the Village Idiot’s escalating scandals, from Eugene Vindman’s warnings to Trump’s pressure on Zelensky and the global fallout from his incompetence. Layered on top of that is Trump’s meltdown over the Epstein transparency push and his increasingly unhinged threats against lawmakers and military personnel.
From the tariff scam to foreign policy chaos, what ties all of it together is the same pattern: Trump breaks everything he touches — institutions, norms, people — and the corruption always flows upward to benefit a tiny circle around him.
