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Last week, a reporter asked me a question I haven’t been able to shake.
If Democrats win back the House and the Senate, should they investigate every member of Donald Trump’s family? Even Melania? Even Barron?
I could hear what was underneath it. Surely some of them should be off-limits. Surely there’s a line. It’s the political version of “women and children first” on the Titanic, as if the lifeboats were reserved for the people we feel a little squeamish about scrutinizing.
My answer took about half a second: Absolutely. Investigate Melania Trump. Investigate Barron Trump. Investigate all of them.
There are no sacred cows when it comes to the most corrupt family in American history. They have stolen untold sums, tens of billions of dollars. They have turned the presidency into a family business so effectively that every one of them is now basically a billionaire in their own right. Melania and her documentary. Barron and his crypto scams and his relationship with the Tate brothers. It goes on and on. These people have made staggering amounts of money while Donald Trump has held the most powerful office in the world.
And I don't give a shit whether somebody had an official title in the administration. That's not the standard.
If you're the president's wife, his son, his daughter, his son-in-law — if you have extraordinary access to the President of the United States while simultaneously making enormous amounts of money — I want to know where that money came from. I want to know who paid it and I want to know what they wanted. All of it should be looked at.
Before anyone accuses me of partisanship, let me be clear: I’m being consistent. I never had a problem with people investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma. If Hunter abused his position to profit off his father’s office, I want to know, and I want him held accountable. That’s how this is supposed to work.
But let’s not pretend the scale is remotely the same. Whatever Hunter Biden did is a hot day in Arizona. What the Trump family has done is the surface of the goddamn sun.
What surprised me was the reaction. All weekend, I heard the same thing: “Come on. Barron’s just a kid.”
No. He is not a kid. He’s a grown-ass man, participating in the adult world and making his own decisions. His best friend is a world-famous human trafficker. And he’s involved in the his family’s cryptocurrency business. World Liberty Financial isn’t some lemonade stand his dad helped him set up. Forbes estimated that the Trump family had already pocketed roughly $780 million from World Liberty by September 2026, with Barron’s own fortune estimated at $150 million — much of it tied to crypto. The venture has also attracted major foreign investment.
And apparently crypto wasn't enough. Barron is also a director of SOLLOS, a privately held yerba mate startup that has raised around $1 million — because nothing screams "perfectly normal presidential-family business venture" like another Trump company where we have very little visibility into who owns what or what Barron's stake actually is.
So yes, put it all under a microscope.
Barron doesn’t get a different set of laws because his father happens to be president. Thinking otherwise is exactly the kind of special treatment that got us here.
I’m sick of watching these people hide behind age, gender, or whatever shield is convenient that week. Melania doesn’t get extra protection because she’s a woman. If she’s complicit in the self-dealing inside this administration, she answers for it like anyone else would.
And neither of them gets a pass because they don't have an office in the West Wing. That's the entire point. You don't need an official government title to benefit from proximity to power.
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Melania has her documentary. Barron has crypto. If money is flowing to members of the president’s immediate family while he controls the United States government, I want to know who’s paying it, what access they have, and what they might be getting in return.
And then there are Don Jr. and Eric. Their business interests don’t exist in some alternate universe disconnected from their father.
Don Jr.’s venture capital firm took a stake in Vulcan Elements. Roughly three months later, the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan to the company. That doesn’t prove a crime. It does mean Congress should be crawling all over it.
Same with Ivanka. Same with Jared Kushner. If Jared is raising billions of dollars from Middle Eastern governments while simultaneously operating in the orbit of American foreign policy, “technically he’s a private citizen” doesn’t end the conversation.
That’s where the conversation starts.
Because this is bigger than one family. We are living through a period of American history where an entire class of people faces essentially zero accountability, and that is not a partisan problem. There are Democrats in the Epstein files who have never been held accountable. There are Republicans in the Epstein files who have never been held accountable. Wall Street was never truly held accountable for 2008, and I’d argue a huge share of the rage tearing this country apart traces straight back to that failure. That isn’t left or right. That’s American.
And here’s what’s about to happen.
They’re going to scurry away like rats. An unprecedented number of staff are already sprinting for the exits of this administration. They’re leaving because they’re betting that nobody writes down their names. They’re betting nobody will remember how they used their positions to get close to powerful people, to land the next cushy gig, to cash in on the way out the door.
They’re betting we forget.
I haven’t forgotten. I want to know what the hell happened with Tom Homan and that $50,000 bribe. I want to know about Eric Trump trying to get confidential information to rig UFC matches in front of the White House. Hell, I’m still mad about Brett Kavanaugh’s near two hundred thousand dollars of credit card debt. We were told it was for multiple packages of Washington Nationals season tickets and that his ‘handful of friends’ had paid him back, and then it just vanished. Who paid it off? I still want an answer to that too.
These stories don’t get to evaporate because the news cycle moved on.
If there is no gravity in Washington, no accountability for anybody, from the President of the United States, to his wife, to his kids, to members of Congress, to his cabinet, Democrat or Republican, then we don’t really have a country anymore. We have a banana republic. And banana-republic corruption doesn’t fix itself. It has to be rooted out, root and stem.
I don’t care about the pardons. I don’t care about the excuses. I don’t care how old anyone is or how sympathetic they look on camera. I care about one thing: proving to the American people that a functioning democracy and a functioning justice system still hold powerful people accountable for the damage they’ve done, the money they’ve stolen, and the lives they’ve ruined.
Because the next time a group of people thinks they can loot this country and abuse the power we entrusted to them, they should stop and think twice. They should remember exactly what happened to the last group that tried it.
That only happens if we keep the receipts and act on them.
With urgency,
—Mike
Thanks for this list! Let’s keep it going: Clarence and Ginny Thomas, luxury vacations, tuition payments, $100,000 consulting fees.
In fact the only way to ensure they are not above the law a do not continue to corrupt the peoples government is to make them pay restitution in FULL. Otherwise their stolen wealth will allow them to keep going.