Was corruption the biggest problem in the US elections?

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Last week I saw that one of the biggest contributing factors to the massive blue tsunami that marked a new story for the US elections was that people were fed up with government corruption. This has always been a problem to some extent, but the corruption of the past versus corruption under Trump was like a wasp’s nest on the side of the house compared to a plague of murder hornets terrorizing the entire country (or continent or globe). There is no comparison in American history that comes close to the corruption we have seen under the Trump administration.

My assumption was that inflation (coming specifically from Trump’s war on Iran and Trump’s widespread tariffs) and a poor economy were the main reasons for the blue tsunami. However, since then I have seen more polls showing that corruption was either the largest or second largest factor in the sharp shift to the left in the recent midterm elections.

I can say that corruption is a enormous problem for me. The slide of the United States towards a completely corrupt, oligarchic, undemocratic and authoritarian society was a very important issue for me. I was worried that we had reached a point of no return. (And, to some extent, perhaps we have.) However, I didn’t think these concerns were spread far enough. I assume that most on the right don’t even see information on this topic, and that most people “in the middle” don’t either. However, election results and polls on this issue indicate that some of this is actually making progress. In any case, for those who have seen a lot on this topic and even more for those who haven’t, below are just a few of the seemingly endless and egregious examples of corruption that have emerged regarding Donald Trump and his family (going back to early April 2026). I will divide the posts into a handful of topics.

Stock Trading

Pardons and commutations: fraud and corruption galore

Remember Trevor Milton and Nikola Motors?

Stock market corruption at Truth Social

Family corruption and government contracts

More fraud/corruption in real estate

DOGE Cuts

Pay to play

Trump against the IRS

Overview of corruption and other problems

Staff theft

Other frauds in the party (a little bit)

Russian betrayal continues

And then there are the Epstein files…

There’s a lot more to that… but it’s too disgusting and repulsive to post here.

Actually? I’m surprised.

And people are wondering why Americans were so fed up with Trump and the Republicans in the recent historic midterm elections.

And, believe it or not, we haven’t even talked about the Iran war or fossil fuel companies above! Maybe it should be a part two?