🧩 BND Motif Index · M1762
Self-dealing
An official pushes a policy, a vote or a deal in which he holds a stake, his shares, his family's company, his own property or his own payout, so that the public decision fills his own pocket.
📜 Plots🗂️ Money and power🗂️ Corruption
- 8claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 3claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Graft
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump seeks designation for Florida golf course as presidential retreat 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-09
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “influencing legislation to financially benefit themselves” “to influence marijuana legislation and secure lucrative business opportunities for herself and her family”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 3
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-27 “Trump's tariffs raise prices for families while he negotiates deals to enrich himself.” 2
- 2026-10-25 “Dan Sullivan is said to have tripled his wealth in office, voting for tariffs that help his family's company while Alaskans struggle with rising costs.” 1
- 2026-10-16 “Bo Hines used his position in the administration to shape crypto legislation for his own benefit.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-11 “Senator Louise Lucas is accused of using her office to steer marijuana legislation to her family's business and to shield it from scrutiny.” 1
Retold online 3
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-07 “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pushes AI data centers on the public lands he oversees while holding tens of millions in AI investments, which critics call a conflict of interest.”
- 2026-11-01 “Donald Trump and his family are using various business ventures and crypto schemes to grift and engage in self-dealing.”
- 2026-10-08 “Donald Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David, which would be used for hosting international summits and housing future U.S. presidents.”
Fact-checked 1
claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link
- 2026-10-24 “An ad from the Democratic-aligned super PAC WinSenate claims Senator Dan Sullivan voted to raise Alaskans' healthcare costs by $1,800 and on that same day voted to give himself a $500,000 taxpayer-funded payout.” 🔎 FactCheck.org
M1762 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-10-06 · what this is · how the index works