Something to Know - 13 December (part 2)

Trumpism has done an excellent job of weaponizing "culture wars" to an immoral extreme.   Look around the floor of newspaper editorial rooms for discarded examples of moral decay and destruction of American Democracy forced to the floor by authoritarian power.  As if Trump is the moral leader of American ideals?   May we rejoice in having good muckraking journalism, which is still alive and willing to tell truth to power.    Simply said, there are many more trashed stories that may come to light now.

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	FIFA Gave Trump a 'Peace Prize.' Then his Justice Dept. Dropped a Major Soccer Bribery Case. The corruption is the point. The Intellectualist Dec 13 ∙ Preview ∙ Guest post   READ IN APP   President Donald Trump poses for a photo with FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Friday, December 5, 2025. | Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr By Brian Daitzman Days after FIFA President Gianni Infantino handed Donald Trump an unprecedented "FIFA Peace Prize" at the World Cup draw in Washington, federal prosecutors in New York asked to dismiss a major soccer bribery case that was once central to the United States' campaign against FIFA corruption. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn moved on Wednesday, December 10 to dismiss a major soccer bribery case that grew out of the United States' long-running probe of corruption in world football, days after the head of FIFA awarded Donald J. Trump an inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize" at a World Cup draw in Washington, according to court filings and news reports. Reuters reported that U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella told the court that dropping the case against former Fox International Channels executive Hernan Lopez and Argentine sports marketing company Full Play Group was "in the interests of justice," even though a jury convicted them in 2023 and a federal appeals court reinstated those verdicts in July after a trial judge set them aside.

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Juan Matute

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