Window into Yesterday's & Today's Insanity

The "currency of criminals" got a big boost yesterday at the inaugural World Liberty Forum attended by a who's who of corporate chiefs, crypto thieves and government lackeys (today's insanity).  

Two U.S. Senators lent their good name to the Trump boys by speaking at the event.  Both are members of the political Red Team,  Ashley Moody of Florida and Bernie Moreno of Ohio.  

Moreno's state was just awarded approval for a new bank, Erebor Bank, the captive bank of Anduril and future home of TechGod bank accounts (complete with FDIC coverage).  Erebor will accept crypto as collateral for loans.  Yipppeeee!!!

Just prior to his inauguration Trump II made two major crypto moves.  One, he launched his $TRUMP "Fight Fight Fight" memecoin and two, he sold a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial to a United Arab Emirates Sultan.  The UAE was the first to use WLFI's stablecoin (USD1) for its $2 billion investment in Binance.

$TRUMP is down to $3.39 from an all time high of $73.43.  It has lost over 95% of its value.  Worry not, MAGA supporters, the Trump boys have something special for you.

NYPost reported:

World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family holds a reported 38% stake, unveiled a partnership with the Apex Group that could help mainstream the company’s digital stablecoin, called USD1, and plans to use that stablecoin to finance a new Trump-branded hotel with luxury floating villas in the Maldives.

What kind of person is needed to keep the chicanery going?  One who looks the other way regarding insiders behaving unethically or illegally.

We know what decades of "deferring to insiders" produced, don't we Larry Summers?  Cheat'em House Rules?  Good show, Chap!

Yesterday's insanity is clearly available for all to see through the Epstein window.

Private equity underwriters (PEU), which sponsored Epstein, aligned with government officials for multiple reasons ( keeping low tax rates, political influence, tapping government budgets, ensuring low interest rates, ignoring criminal behavior, regulatory avoidance...).  

Britain's Prince Andrew gave confidential trade reports to Epstein and is now under arrest.  Did those trade reports prompt Epstein to invest in Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures or Coinbase?

Today's insanity grew out of yesterday's but is far brasher and in your face.  The Trump boys declared their conflicts of interest were forced up them.  Horse hockey!  

Don Jr. called regulated, government backed banks a "ponzi scheme", when crypto has "pump and dumps" and "rug pulls."  TechGods want their own everything, money, bank, country.  The sordid Trump clan will deliver it all for a large cut.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new, brasher TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  It is all in the PEU/TechGod family.

World Liberty Holds "Carefully Curated" Future Forum

The Trump boys hosted a crypto confab at Mar-a-Lago with Wall Street, elected/government officials and cryptobros.  It was the inaugural World Liberty Forum.  

Don Jr. explained how a Middle Eastern investor already earned a four bagger on his 49% stake in WLFI.  Don didn't say if he used his father's whimsical math formulas to calculate those returns.

Brother Eric also hosted the event.  As it was a "carefully curated event", elected officials needed to be in the room.  WLFI got two U.S. Senators, Bernie Moreno from Ohio (home of the new Erebor Bank) and Ashley Moody from Florida (where Palm Beach is the new Silicon Valley/Botox Alley).  

It wouldn't be a Trump event without a cabinet member and some shameless hawking of wares.

I wonder if the insider crowd will reminisce about Jeffrey Epstein's early investments in Valar Ventures or Coinbase.   

Beware the visionary Sheikh-down.  It can be done "the easy way or the hard way, right boys?"  

Prominent PEU Names in Epstein Files

Creep Jeffrey Epstein sold Howard Lutnick a New York City townhouse for $10.  That's what happens when you are in good graces in the insider money funnel.  

Trump II was named by an underage girl as having "forced her head down to his exposed penis."

Private equity underwriters (PEU) Leon Black (Apollo) and Glenn Dubin (Highbridge Capital) were mentioned by victims as getting massages with the Epstein treatment.  

Trump's "Just Us" Department is yet to meet with Epstein's victims who want co-conspirators and abusers identified.

Time will reveal if that actually happens given politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  Insiders protected their own for decades.  That is clear for the world to see.

Contempt for It All

Our Health & Human Services Secretary revealed he'd snorted cocaine off a toilet seat to show his germ braveness and contempt for the law.  

Pollution regulations do not apply to the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.  And both of these men are in the Trump-Epstein files,  a world of the rich and powerful where women play a distinctly subservient role

Get ready for more billionaire gas emissions, courtesy of Trump II.  In a meeting with oil executives the President suddenly got up and lumbered over to the window facing the former East Wing of the White House.  Some speculated Trump II had a gastrointestinal motive for his foray.  

Trump II and his TechGods show us every day how much power they have and how little anyone else possesses.  Congress and the Supremes are yet to reign in Trump, the digital Caligula, in any serious manner.  Let's hope that changes soon.

The Constitution provides no room for the Executive Branch to direct elections.  That power is given to the states and can be adjusted by Congress.  Usurping that is typical Trump II and shows his contempt for the rights of others.  

Toilet seat, pollution, deregulating emissions, defecating on the Constitution...please sir, I'd love to inhale more billionaire gas straight from your intestinal tract.  And then, may I have another one?  

If your cabinet, oil executives, TechGods and private equity underwriters (PEU) can do it and survive, I'll take my chances.  

I'll pull your finger when you quit pulling my leg with your ceaseless mistruths and dodgy diversions.

Update 2-15-26:  The New Yorker reported Trump advisor Steve Bannon advised Epstein on reputation rehab:

Bannon wrote, “we must counter ‘rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by worlds most powerful, richest men’---that can’t be redeemed.”

Epstein gamed multiple systems, immigration, peace prizes, the corporate world, even stolen art.

Leon Black and other private equity underwriters (PEU) coached Jeffrey well.

Feds Got Rothstein, Not Epstein.

The Epstein files have numerous documents related to $1.2 billion Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who looked at Donald J. Trump as a role model.   

The homemade video shows billion-dollar Ponzi criminal Scott Rothstein sitting in the back of a limousine on his way to Yankee Stadium, a glass of vodka in his hand, lecturing to several children -- relatives and family friends -- who are attending the baseball game with him. 

"Here's one thing you should learn about me that's really important, everybody pays attention," Rothstein said. "If you are going to attack me in any fashion, be prepared for the counter-attack and understand that I duel with people much much smarter than you every day. Understand that the repercussions of engaging me could open the gates of hell. Understand that I am capable of evil far beyond anything your imagination could ever conjure up." 

A voice from behind the camera pipes up: "I can verify this as actual fact." The voice is that of Steve Caputi, a partner with Rothstein in the Café Iguana nightclub in Pembroke Pines and one of his closest friends "

He said, 'Listen, Trump operates the same way, the politicians operate the same way, when there's a problem you fix it," he said. "Sometimes you go outside the rules. Everybody does it, that's how it's done. That's how you get to the top." 

And Caputi rode along as Rothstein's meteoric rise began until both of them were hobnobbing with Donald Trump at his Mar-A-Lago estate. 

He said Trump was one of Rothstein's idols and Trump returned the respect in a big way one night at an event at the lavish Palm Beach spread. 

"Donald Trump puts his arm around Scott and says, 'You know, people you're looking at probably the next United States Attorney General,'" Caputi said. "And Scott's trying to look all modest, and Arlen Specter chirps in and says, 'Maybe someday a president of the United States.' And the whole room explodes with applause like the floor of a convention."

Rothstein used his ill gotten gains for influence peddling.  The perpetrator was looking at a reduced sentence (a la Jeffrey Epstein) but the government reversed their offer:

Prosecutors withdrew their motion two years ago to reduce Rothstein’s sentence based on his cooperation in the sprawling racketeering investigation because he provided “false” information and violated his plea agreement.

Sound familiar?   

Rothstein's co-conspirators were investigated, charged and convicted.  

Epstein's psychologist was the victim of a different fraud from financial advisor Donald Hardman.  He copied Epstein on communications with his attorney on settling the fraudulent debt with Regions Bank.  

Local law enforcement took an interest in the Hardman case, just as they had with Rothstein

Epstein started at $20,000 to settle a $200,000 debt plus interest.  The offer rose to $50,000.  It appears they settled on $75,000.   

Makes you wonder about Palm Beach, the new Wall Street given how many financial firms have located offices there.  

Trump II disabled white collar criminal investigatory capacity and ring fenced numerous areas as off limits for investigation.  He even appointed a white collar crime defense attorney as Ambassador to the United Nations.  

Should Trump pardon Scott Rothstein he could fulfill that Attorney General prognostication.  Pam Bondi's bombastic thugery is getting stale.

Trump II Appoints White Collar Criminal Defender to UN

Trump II appointed  attorney Todd Steggerda as United Nations Ambassador.  White House.gov posted on 2-11-26:

Todd Steggerda, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador.

Steggarda headed McGuire Woods Government Investigations and White Collar Litigation Group and has significant experience defending executives charged of federal crimes and coaching others how to avoid illegal actions.  

Trump II's administration neutered the government's white collar criminal investigative capacity while declaring former investigative areas "off limits."  I'll venture Steggarda's goal is to globalize the Trump white collar crime free-pass system.

Jesse wrote:

Lack of strategic vision, honor, and a sense of consequence are sorely lacking in most of our governing elites. 

 They rarely face any consequences for their incompetence and corruption, and have consequently developed a remarkably unnatural sense of life in their bubble of entitlement. 

This must be fashionable with governments these days, because there is so much of that going around. 

We learn nothing.

Trump II also appointed Karen Sessions for a plum government slot:

Karen Sessions, of Texas, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term of seven years from October 27, 2025, vice Mary T. Boyle, term expired.

Karen is the wife of Texas Representative Pete Sessions and a former Red Team candidate for Congress in Florida. 

Politicians Red & Blue love private equity underwriters (PEU) and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

Trump Appoints Another PEU

Trump II appointed a former tech CEO whose company had billions in private equity investment.  William Hague is the former CEO and Vice Chair of Tillman Infrastructure.  In 2022 Tillman got $1 billion from Carlyle.

The company took on more private equity loans in 2024.

Hague worked for a private equity underwriter (PEU) funded outfit until he joined Trump II's administration.  

Hague knows Carlyle, Apollo Oak Hill, HPS and Northleaf so he's a good fit for any modern administration.  Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.