'Snake Oil Salesmen': Analyst Says MAGA 'Quacks' and 'Hucksters' Are Prospering Under Trump

'Vultures circling': Ex-Republican says MAGA knows something is 'badly wrong'

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson is warning that a desperate Donald Trump has turned to the "Roy Cohn Distraction Playbook" — named for Trump's ethically-challenged mentor — to cover for the serious schism roiling within the MAGA movement.Wilson claimed that Trump's chief-of-staff Susie Wile...

'Snake oil salesmen': Analyst says MAGA 'quacks' and 'hucksters' are prospering under Trump

It’s an age for con men, says Intelligencer columnist Sarah Jones.Quackery is at least as old as the United States, but today’s quacks “have learned to manipulate regulatory loopholes to sell fake cures to the masses,” she says. Jones points out that a Joe Rogan podcast fan may hear commercials for “Alpha Brain,” created by a “Rogan friend” who got sued last year for deceptive advertising.READ MORE: Why are you negotiating trade deals?' GOP sena…

The Great Quack Revival

Sarah Jones writes that the Trump administration’s embrace of MAHA could usher in a new golden age of quackery.

Carnival of con artists comes to Roselle with Mayor Donald Shaw, Santos and Trump

In an era when political deceit has become almost expected, Mayor Donald Shaw joins the ranks of disgraced figures like George Santos and Donald Trump—men whose legacies are defined less by leadership than by lies.  Santos, recently incarcerated for an extraordinary web of fabrications that defrauded donors and deceived voters, and Trump, who set historicContinue reading "Carnival of con artists comes to Roselle with Mayor Donald Shaw, Santos an…