Executive Watch

Tracking presidential abuses of power

The Executive Watch is a tracker of presidential abuses of power that we at The UnPopulist, and our parent organization the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism (ISMA), designed in order to provide a one-stop, comprehensive, easily searchable database that anyone can click on to see the full picture of Trump’s illicit actions in office.

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We've divided presidential abuses of power into five categories: the 5 Ps.

• Personal Grift

• Political Corruption

• Presidential Retribution

• Power Consolidation

• Policy Illegality

This post will serve as a continually updated repository of all our Executive Watch entries, but sorted by presidential abuse category.

• 2/27/25: Cryptocurrency Scammer Pours Millions in Trump's Venture and Gets Charges Dropped

• 2/25/25: Elon Musk Uses ‘DOGE’ to Land a Lucrative Government Contract for Starlink

• 2/19/25: Musk Uses His Political Power to Force Companies to Advertise on X

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• 2/17/25: Trump Abuses His Foreign Policy Powers as a Favor to ‘Manosphere’ Influencer Andrew Tate

• 2/11/25: Trump’s Pardon-for-Deportation Crackdown Deal with NYC Mayor Eric Adams

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• 2/25/25: Trump Retaliates Against the Law Firm Representing Jack Smith, Who Investigated Him

• 2/21/25: Trump DOJ Threatens Opposition Lawmakers for their Speech

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• 2/21/25: Trump Tells DHS to Spend Millions on Political Ads Thanking Him for Closing the Border

• 2/17/25: King Trump to America: I Am Beyond the Law

• 1/27/25: Trump Fires Watchdogs Who Track Public Corruption While Claiming He's Fighting 'Waste, Fraud, and Abuse'

• 1/17/25: Trump Uses the Threat of FCC Action to Intimidate and Shake Down CBS

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• 2/21/25: Trump Punishes AP for Exercising Its Free Speech Rights

• 2/20/25: Trump Attempts an Illegal and Unconstitutional Takeover of the U.S. Postal Service

• 2/12/25: The Trump Administration Illegally Seizes New York City Funds

• 1/28/25: Trump Withholds Congressionally Mandated Spending in Defiance of the Constitution

• 1/20/25: Trump Defies the Law to Keep TikTok Alive

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