Eric Trump Drops Unnerving Hint About His Dad’s Coming 2025 Corruption

Eric Trump is the face of the new Trump oligarchy. At a conference this week, he said straight out that he and his father, Donald Trump, will work together once Trump is president to push crypto—which the Trump family has direct investments in—demonstrating striking audacity about their coming self-dealing. Eric, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, has also been prominently negotiating the ethics policy—or lack thereof—that Trump will deign to accept as president. We talked to Casey Michel, the author of several books on American kleptocracy, who explains how conditions are ripe for unprecedented elite corruption to flourish. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.