Stephanopoulos Slams Trump and Family's 'Brazen Corruption'

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Source: Daily Beast

Updated Jun. 1 2025 7:58PM EDT
Published Jun. 1 2025 1:34PM EDT


George Stephanopoulos came out swinging against President Donald Trump and his family during the opening remarks of his This Week broadcast on Sunday. Stephanopoulos alleged that the Trump clan has exploited the highest office in the land to generate “billions of dollars” in deals. “The scale is staggering,” the ABC host said. “President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors.”

ABC had to issue an apology to Trump as part of a $16 million settlement with the Republican president late last year after Stephanopoulos falsely stated that Trump had been “found liable for rape.” However, Trump, in fact, had been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in the trial involving author E. Jean Carroll.

Still, that didn’t stop Stephanopoulos from taking Trump and his White House administration to task in a flurry of rebukes directed at his policies, including a to pardon convicted tax cheat Paul Walzcak before he even reported to prison. The pardon came after his mother attended a $1 million-dollar-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

The Securities and Exchange Commission also dropped its long-running lawsuit against crypto-trading platform Binance over 13 violations of federal securities laws, but not before the trading group had listed a cryptocurrency launched by the Trump family crypto-firm, World Liberty Financial. That move followed after Trump’s social media company, Trump Media Technology Group, announced it would raise around $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin. So far, none of the estimated 50 institutional investors in the group have been publicly identified.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/abcs-george-stephanopoulos-slams-donald-trump-and-familys-brazen-corruption/

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1. Caught that yesterday and thought it was great. The Daily Beast botched one quote from David Frum, though.

The Daily Beast split a single paragraph of Frum's article, which Stephanopoulos quoted, into two paragraphs, and started the second paragraph with "He added" - so it wasn't clear that the words were originally Frum's or Stephanopoulos commenting on them.

And then TDB changed "or" to "of" in the final sentence of that quote from Frum, changing

This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship.

to

This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic of a postcolonial African dictatorship.

I haven't watched video of that since catching the broadcast yesterday morning, but I'm pretty sure I'd've noticed if George had mangled that. He didn't, but TDB handled that quoted paragraph sloppily.

[wolfie001]

2. Executives at ABC ordered truckloads of Depends for the executive suites

Expecting phones calls and reading WH texts as we speak.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. ROFL!!!

[Paladin]

3. Way past time for the mainstream media to be paying attention.

trump's money-grubbing corruption is open, obvious, and without anything close to an explanation, much less a defense. The media need to lay off Joe Biden and pay a lot more attention to the worst president this country has ever been burdened with.