SCOOP-3: In January, Oak View Group, then controlled by Tim Leiweke, donated $250k to Trump's inaugural.

In July, Leiweke was charged in a bid-rigging case.

He was expected to testify in the DOJ's case against LiveNation.

But this month, before either case went to trial, he was pardoned by Trump

SCOOP-2: Isabela Herrera donated $2.5m to MAGA Inc. on 12/31/2024.

At the time, her father, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was being prosecuted for bribing Puerto Rico's governor.

In July, Trump's DOJ authorized a misdemeanor plea deal, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed a harsher sentence

And large corporations with media holdings have decided to self-censor to appease a wannabe dictator.

This is how democracies die.

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer