Housekeeping 

• Vortrag und Diskussion: Die bipolare Nation. Was Amerika der Welt gegeben hat (15.6.)
• Atlantisches Forum: Das entzauberte Spiel: Die Weltmeisterschaft, Trump und die Macht des Fußballs (16.6.)
• Online Seminar: Who Tells America's Story? Indigenous Perspectives in Literature and Culture (19.6.)

Das System I: Abbau der Anti-Korruptionsstrukturen

• Trump's Illegal Firing of Inspectors General (American Oversight, 2025)
• The Significance of Firing Inspectors General: Explained (Campaign Legal Center, 2025)
• Report Outlines Contributions of Inspectors General Fired by Trump (Lawfare Media, 2025)
• Inspectors general fired by Trump issue warning about lack of oversight (PBS NewsHour, 2025)
• Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics (CBS News, 2025)
• Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size (NBC News, 2025)
• The Department of Justice's Broken Accountability System (Brennan Center for Justice, 2025)
• Whitehouse Demands Answers from Justice Department on Dismantling of Public Integrity Section (US Senate, 2025)
• 2025 U.S. Department of Justice resignations (Wikipedia)
• Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement (White House, Executive Order, 2025)
• Ein Wendepunkt für die globale Korruptionsbekämpfung (Verfassungsblog, 2025)
• Elon Musk's Doge conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says (The Guardian, 2025)
• "Elon Musk Is a Walking Conflict of Interest" (Mother Jones, 2025)
• Interessenkonflikt mit DOGE: Musks Firmen könnten Bußgelder in Milliardenhöhe vermeiden (Golem.de, 2025)
• The Lack of Ethics Enforcement in Government Provides a Blueprint for Reform (Campaign Legal Center, 2026)

Das System II: Die Rolle der Begnadigungen

• The Evolution of Trump’s Corruption (The Atlantic)
• Power, Profit, and Washington’s Paradox (Verfassungsblog)
• The President Who Sued Himself (Lawfare)
• Trump’s Flurry of Pardons Signals a Wholesale Effort to Redefine Crime (The New York Times)
• To Win Pardons, Trump Allies Echo His Claims of Political Prosecutions (The New York Times)
• Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption (The Guardian)
• There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This (The New York Times)

Das Persönliche I: Mar-a-Lago

• Foreign Emoluments Clause Generally (Library of Congress / Constitution Annotated)
• Emoluments Clause and Presidential Compensation (Library of Congress / Constitution Annotated)
• The Emoluments Clauses, Explained (Brennan Center for Justice, 2025)
• The Emoluments Clause: Its text, meaning, and application to Donald J. Trump (Brookings Institution, 2016)
• emoluments clause (Cornell Law School / Legal Information Institute)
• New Congressional Report: Trump Businesses Received $7.8 Million from Foreign Governments (American Oversight, 2024)
• 150 foreign government officials have paid visits to Trump properties (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington / CREW, 2020)
• Secret Service Spends Over $1.4 Million on Mar-a-Lago Security (Newsweek, 2025)
• Congressman Cohen Introduces the MARALAGO Act (U.S. House of Representatives, 2025)
• Emoluments Lawsuit – D.C. Attorney General (Office of the Attorney General, Washington D.C.)
• The intensifying threat of Donald Trump's emoluments (CREW, 2024)
• Donald Trump und Korruption im Weißen Haus: Die Präsidentschaft als endlose Abzocke (Der Spiegel, 2025)

Das Persönliche II: Jared Kushner

• Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion (The New Yorker)
• Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy  (The New York Times)
• Jared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm (The Guardian)
• Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration (The Atlantic)
• The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story. (Tangle)
• The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE (The National Review)
• Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (The New York Times)

Der Markt I: Insiderhandel

• Trump ignites 'insider trading' accusations after global tariffs U-turn (The Guardian, 2025)
• Democrats call for insider trading investigation over Trump's tariff pause (The Guardian, 2025)
• Trump tariffs: Democrats ask SEC to probe stock market manipulation (CNBC, 2025)
• Democrats question whether Trump and his allies engaged in insider trading on tariffs(NBC News, 2025)
• Korruptionsverdacht: Mutmaßlicher Insiderhandel unter Trump (SRF, 2026)
• US foreign policy is for sale with $TRUMP meme coin (Responsible Statecraft, 2025)
• 'Spy Sheikh' Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company (Wall Street Journal, 2026)
• Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption – House Judiciary Committee Report (House Judiciary Committee, Democrats, 2025)
• Profitiert die Familie Trump von Abu Dhabis Krypto-Investition? (tagesschau.de, 2025)
• Congressional Stock Trading and the STOCK Act (Campaign Legal Center, 2025)
• Wyden, Garcia Investigate Kushner Raising Billions from Middle Eastern Governments(U.S. Senate Finance Committee, 2026)
• Trump-Regierung laut Expertin die korrupteste Präsidentschaft der USA (Frankfurter Rundschau, 2025)
• Trump-Regierung die korrupteste in US-Geschichte (Transparency International Deutschland, 2025)

Der Markt II: Das Krypto-Geschäft

• The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story. (Tangle)
• Die Verfassungskrise: 100 Tage Angriff auf die US-Demokratie (Atlantischer Blog)
• How Trump’s $500 Million UAE Crypto Deal Trades U.S. National Security for Family Profit (CAP)
• Trump to host bash for crypto investors tied to his coin sales (The Guardian)
• Trump’s memecoin does have a purpose: Access to the White House (Fortune)
• Top buyers of Trump meme coin join Mike Tyson, others at lavish Mar-a-Lago event (The Washington Post)
• Trump crypto meme coin is a 'deep concern,' Dem lawmakers tell regulators
• Democrats think their secret sauce in 2026 is targeting Trump and Republicans on ‘corruption’
• Latest Indicator of Political Discontent: 43% of Voters Dissatisfied With Both Parties (The New York Times)
• Most Americans think congressional corruption is widespread (YouGov)
• Nine Solutions for Political Corruption (Brennan Center)