Yes, it's good that The Times collates Trump's tangled grifts but, again, the #BrokenTimes fails to take the next step: Labeling it corruption to enable explanation of emoluments and illegality.
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html
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Weird thing is, searching on the word "corruption" yields one hit but then I fail to find it. I know The Times would argue they lay it all out; it's up to us to judge. But again, such show-don't-tell abrogates the journalistic duty to explain, whether corruption or fascism.
@jeffjarvis Perhaps journalism hasn't had the persistent, sheer proximity to root infrastructure power, that most policy makers have had throughout the rise of the US. And while it was often the onus of the Democrat side of the duopoly to be the resistance points to *pure* profit Capitalism, the private sector squeezing the majority distributions of wealth, down to an all-powerful minority, was effectively funneled by said overextended duopoly, into the current #oligarchy #TechBros abuses we have today.
Media is suffering oppression from the duopoly, which can only be worsened by a burgeoning monarchy. Welcome to today's America.
@jeffjarvis same story with the word “lie” which they can't utter whatever lies they print.
One could respect a division between "News" and "Analysis", and this one story could be restricted to news. But they've got a whole stable of op-ed'ers, commentators, and analysts whose interpretation of this data they could be publishing alongside this. And they don't. (At least I assume they don't. Didn't check - I've given up on them.)
It's kind of like when I notice that I should be eating more vegetables, so I buy them, but then they rot in my fridge. Half-done is not done.