Trump’s Crypto-Card Monte – CounterPunch.org
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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
—Quote attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, repeated often by editor/journalist Lewis Lapham in the last year of his life (2024).
On June 13, 2025, in compliance with the United States Office of Government Ethics (motto: “Preventing Conflicts of Interest in the Executive Branch”), President Donald Trump filed his “Personal Public Financial Disclosure Report” (OGE Form 278e, for those keeping score at home).
In theory he complied with all the requests to disclose non-government income of more than $200, assets in excess of $1,000, and…
