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Trump promises every US adult $5,000 if Republicans win the midterm elections (www.thejournal.ie)

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He did not say where the money would come from.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In a functioning democracy such an election promise is a crime, but so are Super PACS and gerry-mandering and data scraping from voters via scam sites or abusing of entirely different public databases. Also, in a functioning democracy such crimes get prosecuted.