Will Dems Help ‘Supercharge’ Trump’s Crypto Corruption?

On this day last year, the Trump administration carried out its second illegal boat strike in international waters, killing three on a Venezuelan vessel allegedly smuggling drugs. At least 230 people have now died in such strikes.

Good morning. Andrew here. Congress is back in town after a weeks-long recess, and senators are focused on a matter of extreme importance to Americans getting squeezed by Donald Trump’s wartime economy: cryptocurrency regulations – or more precisely, getting the crypto industry the lax regulatory treatment it has been trying to pay for with all those TV ads. What else? The bill tries and fails to solve Trump’s crypto grift.

In today’s ‘First Draft,’ senators prepare a crypto gift for America’s impossibly corrupt president, Trump pal and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft cracks down on a rapper for saying “Free Palestine,” and there’s yet more terrible news in the new forever war with Iran.

Senators have finally returned to Washington after a long summer vacation, at a perilous moment: Americans are struggling with rising inflation and higher borrowing costs. Gas prices have spiked, and the world is on the brink of a long-feared fuel crisis, thanks to Donald Trump’s failed, unending war with Iran.