There have been many favorable reviews of the newly released documentary, You Can See Everything, about the Theranos scandal featuring its founder Elizabeth Holmes as she was about to enter prison for fraud. Because of the era we live in it was almost inevitable that among those reviews at least one would feature Donald Trump as the villain despite the fact that he had absolutely nothing to do with the Theranos scandal.
In a piece which could have been titled You Can See TDS, Atlantic magazine's Idrees Kahloon absurdly fantasized Trump as the Theranos villain on Sunday which gives a hint of where the author's mind is focused on in the title, "Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm."
Kahloon provides a brief synopses of the documentary before indulging in his Kahlooney-Tunes political obsession with Orange Man Bad although the first paragraph already provides a strong clue as to where he wants to go:
Perhaps Elizabeth Holmes was simply ahead of her time: Today, the Theranos founder’s crimes look less notorious amid a pervasive culture of grift and graft.
Her biotechnology company infamously promised to revolutionize medicine by conducting hundreds of tests on mere pinpricks of blood. A decade after it fell into disgrace, and three years after she began serving her 11-year federal-prison sentence for defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars, Holmes is the subject of a new documentary. You Can See Everything, directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, came about because Holmes and her partner, the hotel heir Billy Evans, invited Fielder, a surrealist sketch comedian, to live with them just before she went to prison. They allowed him to film whatever he saw. The result is unsettling, because Holmes’s placid indifference toward the truth has become more familiar than it was when Theranos unraveled.
A few paragraphs later the man who was president when the Theranos scandal broke is referred to but in a very very nice way because of the Magic (D):
The rise and fall of Theranos happened at a time of great optimism for Silicon Valley, under a president who promised hope and change. Back in the mid-2010s, you could more easily believe that technological disruption was not just making Americans rich but also connecting humanity, freeing expression, and enabling democracy.
The very next paragraph we come to the fantasized villain of the scandal who had absolutely nothing to do with Theranos:
A decade ago, the association of the highest echelons of the power elite with an ultimately fraudulent business was a scandal. Today, it might seem mundane. Donald Trump has unashamedly profited from the presidency, earning more than $1.4 billion in 2025 from cryptocurrency deals.
Kahloon then provided in great detail how these cryptocurrency deals were illegal. ...Just kidding! Of course he provided no evidence of illegality. All he had to do to satisfy his liberal readers was to hint at corruption by Trump sans any actual evidence.
The remainder of the Atlantic rant remains focused not on the documentary but on the supposed (evidence free) corruption of Trump until it reaches its final crescendo:
If Holmes had peaked during the Trump era, and had sought the right political protection, perhaps she could have escaped prosecution altogether. The number of federal prosecutions of white-collar crimes in 2025 hit a 39-year low. Amid all the chicanery of the second Trump administration, another Holmes-level deception is easy to imagine. It just wouldn’t register as anything remarkable.
IF... PERHAPS... IMAGINE... Yes, Trump could be inserted into the Theranos Elizabeth Holmes scandal but only via extreme TDS fantasizing.
