(From the thread on Bluesky on this newsletter, “The Leak That Could Still Burn Him”)
Below are some of the questions/comments...and my replies:
Q: “The foreign banks are in the Epstein files. Why would they ever expose him?”
A: They won’t do it out of conscience...they’ll do it out of self-preservation. Once a compliance officer sees a politically exposed account linked to corruption risk, the law forces them to file. Hiding it risks billion-dollar fines and license loss. They’re not virtuous...they’re protecting themselves.
Q: “Nothing will burn Trump. He’ll just squeeze the CEOs and leaders wherever the banks reside.”
A: That works in Washington, not Zurich or Mumbai.
Foreign banks answer to their own regulators, shareholders, and insurers...not to the Oval Office. He can bully the DOJ, but he can’t bully Basel. The global banking system doesn’t bend; it calculates.
Q: “Will those banks really risk huge profits to expose him?”
A: They won’t choose to. They’ll do it when the cost of hiding him outweighs the profit of keeping him. Once regulators threaten fines or market confidence cracks, self-interest flips the switch. He’s valuable...until he’s radioactive.
Q: “Nothing ever sticks. We forget every scandal in a week.”
A: You’re right about the outrage cycle...but financial pressure doesn’t fade with headlines.
Audits, compliance reviews, and regulatory dockets don’t forget; they just move slowly. By the time they act, it looks sudden to the public...but it’s been building for months.
Q: “Everyone’s making money. Why would they ever turn on him?”
A: Because money only flows toward safety. When association becomes risk, loyalty evaporates.
They won’t walk because they grow a conscience; they’ll walk because math beats politics.
Q: “If Netanyahu is any guide, Trump will just skate, financed through crypto.”
A: Hypothetically, he could try...but crypto isn’t invisible anymore. Every major exchange reports to regulators, and blockchain records are forever. It might buy him time...but it also creates a trail written in code...one that never erases.
Q: “Wishful thinking. The ‘real cops’...the bankers...are in on it.”
A: They are...until the numbers turn against them. Even global bankers have bosses: regulators, auditors, and shareholders who punish failure faster than corruption.
When protecting him costs more than protecting themselves, they’ll flip the table.
Q: “He can pressure foreign governments too.”
A: Absolutely...and for a while...it works. But power has a half-life. The weaker his grip in Washington...the less reason foreign leaders have to take his calls. They’ll protect trade...not reputations.
Q: “There were nearly $5 billion in Middle-East deals. How could that ever come back to haunt him?”
A: Big money leaves big footprints. You can gut oversight, but you can’t erase the bank filings, insurance binders, and audit trails attached to billion-dollar flows. The larger the deal...the louder the evidence.
Q: “What happened with that Italian evidence Barr got?”
A: In 2019, Italian officials handed Barr evidence suggesting Trump financial crimes. Instead of opening a case...Barr folded it into the Durham review...keeping it sealed. The DOJ never disclosed what was inside...and it quietly disappeared.
Bottom Line
Trump can control agencies...allies...and even the news cycle...for a while.
But the world runs on numbers, and numbers don’t care who’s president.
When the cost of protecting him exceeds the profit...the system flips.
Exactly right, Jeff...every empire built on leverage eventually collapses under its own paper trail.
He’s survived politics...media, and courts...but money has no loyalty. Once the people managing his deals start protecting their balance sheets instead of his...that’s when the real unraveling begins.
Follow the money… it’s the only trail that never lies.
I just hope the bastard is still on this side of the sod, when it all comes down, and even then, I won’t be satisfied that it didn’t get the justice it deserves HERE, in N America.
Hell yes, Mo....I want it ALL and I want it NOW is the correct battle cry.
You’re not alone in wanting him to face bite-size...public...North-American justice...and that’s the right instinct. The truth: the path to that outcome is often messy and indirect.
Here’s the realistic arc:
Foreign pressure hits first. Banks freeze lines...insurers pull back...partners get sued or flip. That chokes revenue and mobility.
Domestic accountability can come later. Once the cash flow and evidence trail are exposed (and especially after he leaves office), U.S. civil and criminal avenues become far easier to pursue.
Public justice still matters. Even if the first blows come from Zurich or Delhi...what follows can...and should...be litigated and settled here at home.
You’re right to want him here when it happens. That’s where the symbolic and legal closure will feel real. Keep demanding transparency...keep following the money...and keep the pressure up...that combination is what eventually turns international shocks into domestic consequences.
I love hearing that, Candy...that’s exactly the point of this work. Once you start connecting the business pages to the power plays...you see the real story unfolding long before the politicians catch up.
The financial sections are where the footprints of corruption show up first...balance sheets don’t do spin.
Thank you, Sarah...and you’re absolutely right. “Follow the money” isn’t just a phrase; it’s the one investigative principle that never expires. The motives, the pressure points, the truth...they all live in the ledgers. Everything else is just the echo.
Thanks, Jack, for all the work you do constantly. I am so tired of him never being held to account and I’m sadly not optimistic about anything ever happening
I get it, PJ. Truly. That exhaustion you’re describing...it’s the national fatigue of people who’ve played by the rules while watching the worst of them skate free again and again. You’re not alone in that.
But here’s the truth I’ve seen up close: accountability rarely shows up with fireworks. It creeps in...through financial choke points...insider defections...and cracks in the myth of invincibility. Every revelation...every leak...every defector starts that slow bleed of power.
He’s counting on you feeling exactly like this...tired...hopeless...done. Because the moment good people stop believing justice is possible...he wins without lifting a finger.
So no...you don’t have to be optimistic every day. You just have to stay awake. I’ll keep doing the digging...the connecting...and the exposing...because fatigue fades...but truth has an absolutely vicious kind of patience.
Great question, Mary...and one that’s keeping a lot of lawyers up at night.
If foreign regulators or banks move first...he can’t rely on his usual U.S. legal shield. He’d need international counsel...specialists in financial crimes...arbitration...and asset protection...often licensed in London...Zurich...or Dubai.
Those firms aren’t political; they’re transactional. They’ll represent him...until doing so threatens their own reputation or compliance status. Then, just like the banks...they walk.
I am 82. I have loving and successful children and now my grandchildren are taking up the baton. I want a future for them. I will be watching the chain of events
That’s the billion-dollar question, isn’t it. When does accountability finally catch up to a man who’s spent his entire life dodging it?
The short answer: when the money walls start to crack...and they are. What’s happening now isn’t just political pressure...it’s financial oxygen being cut off. Banks...foreign regulators...and former partners are stepping back...freezing...or flipping. That’s what finally gets him. Not morality. Not decency. Money.
He’s always believed he could outrun the law with lawyers and loopholes. But when the international money trail starts to close...those same lawyers stop getting paid… and the loyalty network collapses from the inside.
So yes...it’s coming slower than we want...but faster than he realizes. Accountability doesn’t announce itself with a press conference. It arrives quietly...like a banker who stops returning his calls.
So we’re hoping overseas financial oversights and crackdowns will help start the domino downfall of the Trump Organization. How will that stop the presidential administration, since he will blame it on the Organization held in name, so-called, by his sons.
That’s a sharp question...and you’re exactly right to suspect that the “it’s my sons’ company” line will be his first firewall.
But here’s the thing: overseas regulators don’t care about his excuses. What they care about are banking links...beneficial ownership, and movement of illicit funds.
When those come under scrutiny...when foreign banks freeze...flag...or dump Trump Org-connected accounts...it doesn’t just hurt the business. It starves the political machine.
No money. No leverage. No hush payments. No “friendly loans.”
And the moment those dominoes start falling...the web of deniability he built between “the Organization” and “the Administration” starts to fray. Because if the money dries up overseas...his stateside operatives...shell LLCs...and PACs feel it next. That’s when loyalty cracks and leaks begin.
So yes...the sons will be the scapegoats. But the effect lands right on him. The cash pipelines fund the campaign...the legal defense...and the image of power. Once the flow is disrupted...even a self-proclaimed king starts looking broke and desperate.
Exactly, Laura...and that deal is a perfect example of how economic pressure is now being weaponized behind closed doors.
Musk and Trump didn’t “negotiate” India into partnership...they cornered them. India’s government faced a simple choice: accept Starlink’s entry and avoid a crippling tariff...or watch billions vanish overnight. That’s not diplomacy...that’s economic coercion dressed up as “market access.”
The irony? It hands Starlink near-total control over India’s digital infrastructure...giving both Musk and Trump leverage over one of the world’s largest populations online.
Imagine the data...the influence...the political reach that comes with that.
And it sets the precedent they wanted: if you want to stay on the good side of Washington’s new “America First...by force” policy...you play ball with their chosen corporations.
So yes...what looks like a trade win is actually a test run in global digital domination.
Thanks Jack for this info. Most of this is out of my league as an RN I can manage info with some degree of intelligence, I would never know where to look for this info. I think a lot of us would love to see this take him down. It would save us from the hell is is causing on America with his hate of anything decent and caring. I am Paid subscriber so I will be folioing what you keep us informed of.
Thank you, Teri...sincerely. And never underestimate what you already bring to this fight. You show up. You care. You stay informed when most people tune out. That’s the foundation of every real movement in history.
What they fear most isn’t some secret file or smoking-gun memo...it’s millions of ordinary Americans...grounded in decency and clarity...connecting the dots faster than their propaganda can cover them up.
So your role as an RN...THAN YOU, by the way...as a reader...as a voice of reason in your own circles...matters more than you think. My job is to dig...decode...and deliver the intel.
Yours...and every subscriber’s...is to carry it forward into conversations...decisions...and daily courage.
Because that’s how hell gets pushed back. One informed...unshakable citizen at a time.
Reader Questions, Comments & Answers
(From the thread on Bluesky on this newsletter, “The Leak That Could Still Burn Him”)
Below are some of the questions/comments...and my replies:
Q: “The foreign banks are in the Epstein files. Why would they ever expose him?”
A: They won’t do it out of conscience...they’ll do it out of self-preservation. Once a compliance officer sees a politically exposed account linked to corruption risk, the law forces them to file. Hiding it risks billion-dollar fines and license loss. They’re not virtuous...they’re protecting themselves.
Q: “Nothing will burn Trump. He’ll just squeeze the CEOs and leaders wherever the banks reside.”
A: That works in Washington, not Zurich or Mumbai.
Foreign banks answer to their own regulators, shareholders, and insurers...not to the Oval Office. He can bully the DOJ, but he can’t bully Basel. The global banking system doesn’t bend; it calculates.
Q: “Will those banks really risk huge profits to expose him?”
A: They won’t choose to. They’ll do it when the cost of hiding him outweighs the profit of keeping him. Once regulators threaten fines or market confidence cracks, self-interest flips the switch. He’s valuable...until he’s radioactive.
Q: “Nothing ever sticks. We forget every scandal in a week.”
A: You’re right about the outrage cycle...but financial pressure doesn’t fade with headlines.
Audits, compliance reviews, and regulatory dockets don’t forget; they just move slowly. By the time they act, it looks sudden to the public...but it’s been building for months.
Q: “Everyone’s making money. Why would they ever turn on him?”
A: Because money only flows toward safety. When association becomes risk, loyalty evaporates.
They won’t walk because they grow a conscience; they’ll walk because math beats politics.
Q: “If Netanyahu is any guide, Trump will just skate, financed through crypto.”
A: Hypothetically, he could try...but crypto isn’t invisible anymore. Every major exchange reports to regulators, and blockchain records are forever. It might buy him time...but it also creates a trail written in code...one that never erases.
Q: “Wishful thinking. The ‘real cops’...the bankers...are in on it.”
A: They are...until the numbers turn against them. Even global bankers have bosses: regulators, auditors, and shareholders who punish failure faster than corruption.
When protecting him costs more than protecting themselves, they’ll flip the table.
Q: “He can pressure foreign governments too.”
A: Absolutely...and for a while...it works. But power has a half-life. The weaker his grip in Washington...the less reason foreign leaders have to take his calls. They’ll protect trade...not reputations.
Q: “There were nearly $5 billion in Middle-East deals. How could that ever come back to haunt him?”
A: Big money leaves big footprints. You can gut oversight, but you can’t erase the bank filings, insurance binders, and audit trails attached to billion-dollar flows. The larger the deal...the louder the evidence.
Q: “What happened with that Italian evidence Barr got?”
A: In 2019, Italian officials handed Barr evidence suggesting Trump financial crimes. Instead of opening a case...Barr folded it into the Durham review...keeping it sealed. The DOJ never disclosed what was inside...and it quietly disappeared.
Bottom Line
Trump can control agencies...allies...and even the news cycle...for a while.
But the world runs on numbers, and numbers don’t care who’s president.
When the cost of protecting him exceeds the profit...the system flips.
That’s not hope. That’s arithmetic.
It’s all about following the money …. And it sounds like his DEALS will eventually take him out…one way or other
Exactly right, Jeff...every empire built on leverage eventually collapses under its own paper trail.
He’s survived politics...media, and courts...but money has no loyalty. Once the people managing his deals start protecting their balance sheets instead of his...that’s when the real unraveling begins.
Follow the money… it’s the only trail that never lies.
-Jack
“ I want it ALL and I want it NOW” per Queen.
I just hope the bastard is still on this side of the sod, when it all comes down, and even then, I won’t be satisfied that it didn’t get the justice it deserves HERE, in N America.
Hell yes, Mo....I want it ALL and I want it NOW is the correct battle cry.
You’re not alone in wanting him to face bite-size...public...North-American justice...and that’s the right instinct. The truth: the path to that outcome is often messy and indirect.
Here’s the realistic arc:
Foreign pressure hits first. Banks freeze lines...insurers pull back...partners get sued or flip. That chokes revenue and mobility.
Financial collapse follows reputational collapse. Projects stall...lenders demand covenants...arbitration rulings can seize assets abroad.
Domestic accountability can come later. Once the cash flow and evidence trail are exposed (and especially after he leaves office), U.S. civil and criminal avenues become far easier to pursue.
Public justice still matters. Even if the first blows come from Zurich or Delhi...what follows can...and should...be litigated and settled here at home.
You’re right to want him here when it happens. That’s where the symbolic and legal closure will feel real. Keep demanding transparency...keep following the money...and keep the pressure up...that combination is what eventually turns international shocks into domestic consequences.
-Jack
Thanks Jack. I can’t stop now!
I always seem to say 'Wow' . But this is fascinating. I shall be reading the business sections of my UK daily paper more alertly. Thank you.
I love hearing that, Candy...that’s exactly the point of this work. Once you start connecting the business pages to the power plays...you see the real story unfolding long before the politicians catch up.
The financial sections are where the footprints of corruption show up first...balance sheets don’t do spin.
-Jack
Jack you are so astute!!!! Yes I am subscribed and thank you for all the outstanding work you do!!!!
Thank YOU, Laura. My pleasure.
Great information!thanks for the reporting it really is important to follow the money
Thank you, Sarah...and you’re absolutely right. “Follow the money” isn’t just a phrase; it’s the one investigative principle that never expires. The motives, the pressure points, the truth...they all live in the ledgers. Everything else is just the echo.
-Jack
Thanks, Jack, for all the work you do constantly. I am so tired of him never being held to account and I’m sadly not optimistic about anything ever happening
I get it, PJ. Truly. That exhaustion you’re describing...it’s the national fatigue of people who’ve played by the rules while watching the worst of them skate free again and again. You’re not alone in that.
But here’s the truth I’ve seen up close: accountability rarely shows up with fireworks. It creeps in...through financial choke points...insider defections...and cracks in the myth of invincibility. Every revelation...every leak...every defector starts that slow bleed of power.
He’s counting on you feeling exactly like this...tired...hopeless...done. Because the moment good people stop believing justice is possible...he wins without lifting a finger.
So no...you don’t have to be optimistic every day. You just have to stay awake. I’ll keep doing the digging...the connecting...and the exposing...because fatigue fades...but truth has an absolutely vicious kind of patience.
-Jack
Who will provide his legal counsel and representation, should some of these occur?
Great question, Mary...and one that’s keeping a lot of lawyers up at night.
If foreign regulators or banks move first...he can’t rely on his usual U.S. legal shield. He’d need international counsel...specialists in financial crimes...arbitration...and asset protection...often licensed in London...Zurich...or Dubai.
Those firms aren’t political; they’re transactional. They’ll represent him...until doing so threatens their own reputation or compliance status. Then, just like the banks...they walk.
-Jack
🤞 and thank you, Jack.
You're most welcome, Mary.
That will be a glory to behold.
I am 82. I have loving and successful children and now my grandchildren are taking up the baton. I want a future for them. I will be watching the chain of events
Emily...that sounds like the perfect plan. It really does.
-Jack
I hear George Takei in my head saying, “Oh, myyyyyy.”
Lol...now...I hear him in mine, too, Cherae.
-Jack
You’re welcome. 😆
Thanks, Jack. This is great news, indeed. When will he finally be held accountable for decades of unfettered greed and malfeasance?
That’s the billion-dollar question, isn’t it. When does accountability finally catch up to a man who’s spent his entire life dodging it?
The short answer: when the money walls start to crack...and they are. What’s happening now isn’t just political pressure...it’s financial oxygen being cut off. Banks...foreign regulators...and former partners are stepping back...freezing...or flipping. That’s what finally gets him. Not morality. Not decency. Money.
He’s always believed he could outrun the law with lawyers and loopholes. But when the international money trail starts to close...those same lawyers stop getting paid… and the loyalty network collapses from the inside.
So yes...it’s coming slower than we want...but faster than he realizes. Accountability doesn’t announce itself with a press conference. It arrives quietly...like a banker who stops returning his calls.
-Jack
What a glorious day that will be when his enormous tab for all his misdeeds comes due.
So we’re hoping overseas financial oversights and crackdowns will help start the domino downfall of the Trump Organization. How will that stop the presidential administration, since he will blame it on the Organization held in name, so-called, by his sons.
That’s a sharp question...and you’re exactly right to suspect that the “it’s my sons’ company” line will be his first firewall.
But here’s the thing: overseas regulators don’t care about his excuses. What they care about are banking links...beneficial ownership, and movement of illicit funds.
When those come under scrutiny...when foreign banks freeze...flag...or dump Trump Org-connected accounts...it doesn’t just hurt the business. It starves the political machine.
No money. No leverage. No hush payments. No “friendly loans.”
And the moment those dominoes start falling...the web of deniability he built between “the Organization” and “the Administration” starts to fray. Because if the money dries up overseas...his stateside operatives...shell LLCs...and PACs feel it next. That’s when loyalty cracks and leaks begin.
So yes...the sons will be the scapegoats. But the effect lands right on him. The cash pipelines fund the campaign...the legal defense...and the image of power. Once the flow is disrupted...even a self-proclaimed king starts looking broke and desperate.
-Jack
Musk and tRump forced India to sign an agreement with Starlink to provide wi-fi service for India to avoid a giant tariff too!!
Exactly, Laura...and that deal is a perfect example of how economic pressure is now being weaponized behind closed doors.
Musk and Trump didn’t “negotiate” India into partnership...they cornered them. India’s government faced a simple choice: accept Starlink’s entry and avoid a crippling tariff...or watch billions vanish overnight. That’s not diplomacy...that’s economic coercion dressed up as “market access.”
The irony? It hands Starlink near-total control over India’s digital infrastructure...giving both Musk and Trump leverage over one of the world’s largest populations online.
Imagine the data...the influence...the political reach that comes with that.
And it sets the precedent they wanted: if you want to stay on the good side of Washington’s new “America First...by force” policy...you play ball with their chosen corporations.
So yes...what looks like a trade win is actually a test run in global digital domination.
-Jack
Good I hope it buries him right next to his first wife
Thanks Jack for this info. Most of this is out of my league as an RN I can manage info with some degree of intelligence, I would never know where to look for this info. I think a lot of us would love to see this take him down. It would save us from the hell is is causing on America with his hate of anything decent and caring. I am Paid subscriber so I will be folioing what you keep us informed of.
Thank you, Teri...sincerely. And never underestimate what you already bring to this fight. You show up. You care. You stay informed when most people tune out. That’s the foundation of every real movement in history.
What they fear most isn’t some secret file or smoking-gun memo...it’s millions of ordinary Americans...grounded in decency and clarity...connecting the dots faster than their propaganda can cover them up.
So your role as an RN...THAN YOU, by the way...as a reader...as a voice of reason in your own circles...matters more than you think. My job is to dig...decode...and deliver the intel.
Yours...and every subscriber’s...is to carry it forward into conversations...decisions...and daily courage.
Because that’s how hell gets pushed back. One informed...unshakable citizen at a time.
-Jack
I forward your message to others they can see the truth