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FOR THE LAST DECADE, MAGA made President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a national avatar for nepotism. They railed against the cushy jobs he secured, objected to the expensive amateur artwork he sold, and fixated on a laptop that allegedly contained evidence of illicit foreign influence peddling—a saga that culminated in a gun and tax convictions for which his father pardoned him.
But now the very thing that MAGA spent years treating as a five-alarm scandal involving one president’s son has become the business model for multiple powerful fathers and sons simultaneously—and on a much larger scale.
The nepotistic grift perpetrated by MAGA goes far deeper than the basic arrangement that anti-nepotism laws are designed to prevent. It’s not just a case of ‘father gives undeserving son a fancy job.’ And it’s not just the Trumps, either. It’s the Lutnicks. It’s the Witkoffs. We need a word that describes their sprawling, overlapping system of patriarchal influence and enrichment.
Let’s call it neporuption. It captures a world where nepotism and corruption collide all over Washington, where fathers shape federal decisions, and sons profit handsomely from them.
It works roughly like this:
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