Seagoville publisher’s “The Grifter-In-Chief” explores the intersection of presidential immunity, family business ventures, and public accountability.
Shop in Seagoville publisher Merv Moore turns his attention to the relationship between political power and private wealth in The Grifter-In-Chief: The Oval Office Money Machine, a paperback available through his Books.by bookstore.
What happens when the highest court in the land removes every legal check on the presidency — and the man who benefits has no intention of showing restraint?
In a series of landmark rulings — Trump v. United States, Trump v. Anderson, Trump v. CASA, and more — the Supreme Court built something the Founders never imagined: a presidency effectively shielded from criminal prosecution, insulated from electoral accountability, and freed from the financial ethics rules designed to prevent corruption. Then it handed the keys to Donald Trump.
The Grifter-In-Chief is the story of what came next.
Drawing on blockchain data, congressional records, federal filings, and investigative reporting, this book follows the money through every arm of the Trump second term:
1. The $TRUMP memecoin that transferred nearly $2 billion from retail investors to family-controlled wallets.
2. The pardon pipeline where access to clemency carried an unofficial price.
3. The no-bid contracts that turned the federal government into a vendor for Trump-adjacent businesses.
4. The defense deals and international mining ventures run by the president’s sons.
5. The foreign billions flowing into Trump-linked funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and beyond.
At the center of it all is a simple and damning question: when a president cannot be prosecuted, cannot be removed from the ballot, and cannot be sued for accepting foreign gifts — what is there to stop him from treating the Oval Office as a personal money machine?
The Grifter-In-Chief is not a partisan polemic. It is a documented account of the most profitable presidency in American history — chapter by chapter, dollar by dollar — and a reckoning with what the collapse of constitutional accountability looks like in practice.
Includes:
– The Supreme Court rulings that created a law-free zone around the presidency.
– The $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins — how they worked, who lost, and who cashed out.
– World Liberty Financial and the stablecoin loophole.
– The pardon pipeline and the price of presidential clemency.
– No-bid contracts and the imperial capital.
– Don Jr., Eric Trump, and the Pentagon’s money.
– The Qatar jet, the Saudi billions, and the arms bazaar.
– Mar-a-Lago as a seat of government — and a profit center.
“The Supreme Court created a law-free zone around the president of the United States. Donald Trump stepped into that zone with both feet.”
The Grifter-In-Chief is available to order from Moore’s Books.by storefront. Readers can review the description and current purchase information at books.by/merv-moore/the-grifter-in-chief.
Disclosure: Merv Moore is the owner and editor of Shop in Seagoville and the author of the book featured in this article.
