Dennis Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House under President GW Bush.

He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial crimes tied to hush-money payments to conceal his sexual abuse of minors. At sentencing, the judge publicly called him a “serial child molester.”

2/2: To stop him, they sought a business-friendly authoritarian system. They recruited Marine Corps Officer Smedley Butler to lead a coup, not knowing he’d expose them. Later reviews show overlaps with elite networks tied to early Bush family business interests.

1/2: The Business Plot emerged because powerful bankers and industrialists feared FDR’s New Deal - bank regulation, labor rights, and higher taxes on the wealthy. They saw these reforms as a direct threat to their control and believed Roosevelt was steering the nation toward socialism.

Roy Cohn rose to power as Sen Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the 1954 anti-Communist hearings, known for ruthless tactics and smear campaigns. In the 1970s he became a mentor to Donald Trump, teaching him to attack critics, never admit fault, and countersue relentlessly - he shaped Trump!

Roy Cohn rose to power as Sen Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the 1954 anti-Communist hearings, known for ruthless tactics and smear campaigns. In the 1970s he became a mentor to Donald Trump, teaching him to attack critics, never admit fault, and countersue relentlessly - he shaped Trump!

Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater - infamous for abuses in Iraq - later built private security forces for foreign governments. His sister, Betsy DeVos, served as Trump’s Education Secretary - Rich and powerful families can shape security and policy in ways that sidestep traditional accountability.

Erik Prince helped the UAE build private security forces outside normal military oversight. It shows how elites can bypass official protocols and create their own protection systems, unaccountable to public law. If it can happen there, it can happen here - private armies shielding the powerful!

Nixon & Trump stand as bookends to an era of American political decay & more than fifty years of corrosive power. The Heritage Foundation has served as the ideological engine driving this project, while Fox News has operated as its propaganda arm, shaping public perception to the destructive agenda.

President Richard M. Nixon privately told aide Charles Colson that abortion could be “necessary… when you have a Black and a white” or in cases of rape.

The 2009 White House tapes exposed his racist logic and the gap between his private views and public anti-abortion stance.

2/2 His career collapsed after news broke that he paid $1.6 million in hush money to former Playboy model Shera Bechard, who became pregnant during their affair and obtained an abortion. The payout, arranged through Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, led to Broidy’s 2018 resignation.

1/2 Elliott Broidy - longtime Republican fundraiser - rose to prominence before the Trump era, raising money for George W. Bush & served as RNC Finance Chairman. He returned to national politics during Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign as a major fundraiser and later became an RNC Deputy Finance Chair.

3/3 UBC's assets tied to the Bush–Walker business were officially seized by the US govt under the Trading with the Enemy Act because they were found to be holding or managing assets on behalf of enemy nationals.

No criminal prosecutions were pursued against Prescott Bush or George Herbert Walker.