The Wall Street Journal reveals that Trump’s White House crypto adviser Bo Hines kept a stake in a consulting firm that was paid $415,000 a month by Tether, the world’s largest crypto company, while he wrote the GENIUS Act regulating it. The payments now total over $6 million, and Tether made him CEO of its U.S. division a month after he left the White House. Adam also covers the Alina Habba and Ric Grenell feud over a missing $6 million Kennedy Center donation, open warfare inside the State Department, a Gallup poll showing Democrats with their biggest lead on the economy since 2007, and James Talarico’s CNN town hall after Ken Paxton skipped it.

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The IRS report showing who actually got a break from the Republican tax cut was due in July. It’s October 14th and the Treasury Department still hasn’t released it. A former top IRS official says the numbers don’t match what the White House has been telling voters. Adam breaks down the delayed tax data, the September inflation report that even Fox Business couldn’t spin, the foreign crypto traders paying for dinner with Trump, the Republicans privately admitting the House is gone, and the Starlink restriction that cut off Ukraine’s drones in the middle of a Russian attack.

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The Wall Street Journal has video of Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, at a Dubai New Year’s Eve party with two fugitives indicted for stealing $15 million from a Chicago hospital. One of them donated $190,000 to Paxton’s campaigns. Adam breaks down the video, the Texas attorney general’s donor problem, and why none of this is new. Also: Republicans push back on Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Nidal Hasan firing squad execution, Trump’s new White House press secretary stumbles through her first briefing, Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece after the access-selling scandal, and DHS raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington.

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