{"id":90790,"date":"2025-08-21T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/trump-admin-kills-enforcement-action-against-165-corporations-for-various-bullshit-and-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:04:38","slug":"trump-admin-kills-enforcement-action-against-165-corporations-for-various-bullshit-and-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/trump-admin-kills-enforcement-action-against-165-corporations-for-various-bullshit-and-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Kills Enforcement Action Against 165 Corporations For Various Bullshit And Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the everything-is-very-broken<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

I don\u2019t imply to harp on this, however a central<\/strong> promise of the Trump administration over the past election season was {that a} second Trump time period would \u201ctake goal at large tech,\u201d shield the little man, rein in company energy, and even \u201cproceed the legacy of antitrust enforcers like Lina Khan.\u201d The press was full of limitless tales credibly parroting these sorts of claims, all day, everyday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Six months later and it\u2019s nothing however corruption and cronyism so far as the attention can see. The Trump administration and its courts have effectively destroyed regulatory independence<\/a>, federal shopper safety, and public security oversight. Huge, horrible mergers are rubber stamped with reckless abandon, offered firms present authoritarian management they\u2019re racist<\/a> and feckless<\/a> sufficient. <\/p>\n

A recent report by nonprofit consumer advocacy firm Public Citizen<\/a> calculated that the Trump administration has frozen regulatory motion for a minimum of 165 companies beneath investigation for all kinds of abuses, crimes, and fraud. Lots of them the place the precise form of \u201clarge tech\u201d firms that the Trump administration repeatedly claimed they\u2019d be robust on:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions towards\u00a0165<\/strong>\u00a0companies of every kind \u2013 and\u00a0one in 4<\/strong>\u00a0of the companies benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from the expertise sector, which has spent\u00a0$1.2 billion<\/strong>\u00a0on political affect throughout and because the 2024 elections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The press hasn\u2019t actually defined this to the general public very nicely, however successfully all U.S. public security, labor, shopper, and different protections are lifeless within the water, one thing that can inevitably lead to mass sickness, incapacity, and demise. The vast majority of efforts to carry companies accountable now routinely run into Trump-stocked courts that can insist companies have overstepped their ever-dwindling regulatory authority<\/a>. It\u2019s radical extremism, but it surely\u2019s by no means framed as extremism within the press. <\/p>\n

Regardless of the \u201cfeud\u201d between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, this has confirmed notably helpful to guys like Musk, who’ve seen greater than 40 totally different regulatory inquiries into his firms just magically evaporate in a little over six months<\/a>. Dodgy monetary fraudsters within the crypto area have additionally been large beneficiaries of the outright assault on company oversight. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the golden age of corruption, a lot of the harm can be everlasting, and the affect will reverberate for a technology or longer. That is, curiously, not of curiosity to the press. Regardless of the actual fact the horrors over the horizon will provide endlessly alternative for hyperbolic headlines. <\/p>\n

I appear to recall a number of years of claims from pundits and media shops that Trump was going to be \u201crobust on large tech\u201d and can be \u201cserious about antitrust<\/a>.\u201d In actuality, as I tried to warn repeatedly in the run up to the election<\/a>, Trump was merely searching for leverage that he may use to bully tech firms into being friendlier to authoritarians and authoritarian propaganda (fairly efficiently, because it turned out).<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, authoritarians don\u2019t care about wholesome markets, sturdy competitors, or the general public curiosity, they care about their very own private wealth and energy. Every part else is bullshit. But, curiously, the consolidated, company U.S. press doesn\u2019t appear almost as concerned about overlaying our daily corruption and cronyism as they have been in propping up Trump\u2019s faux populism throughout the the final election season. <\/p>\n

So as a substitute, we get coverage like this over at Axios<\/a>, that normalizes the truth that U.S. authoritarians are actually sustaining a operating record of firms that are appropriately deferential to our mad, idiot king<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\tFiled Beneath: authoritarian<\/a>, consolidation<\/a>, corruption<\/a>, crime<\/a>, deregulation<\/a>, doj<\/a>, oversight<\/a>, regulators<\/a>
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