Eyes Wide Shut: From Crypto Wallets to Epstein Files
There is a dangerous cynicism settling deeper and deeper into the American electorate. It is the belief that corruption isn’t an aberration, but a baseline — a feature, not a bug. And when voters believe that everyone is on the take, they stop demanding better. They lower their standards. They shrug.
This exhaustion is the precise environment in which corruption thrives. And right now, the Department of Justice is providing a masterclass in how to dismantle public trust from the inside out.
The Crypto Conflict (to name just one)
The story begins with money, as it so often does. Recent investigations by our strategic litigation partner Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has illuminated a brazen conflict of interest at the highest levels of our justice system. Todd Blanche, the current Deputy Attorney General and President Trump’s former personal defense attorney, appears to have been at the center of dismantling financial regulations that directly benefited his own portfolio.
While holding between $159,000 and $485,000 in cryptocurrency assets, Blanche oversaw a dramatic shift in DOJ policy regarding digital currency. Under his watch, the DOJ disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) — an elite task force specifically designed to root out money laundering and fraud in the crypto markets.
https://www.brightamerica.org/p/eyes-wide-shut-from-crypto-wallets
That was brought up in the Epstein hearings and Bondi just screamed TDS,
