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I mean . . . Yeah. We know. We’ve been watching it happen every goddamned day.
Thanks for the reminder Guardian. Maybe you could name and shame a little more? It’s not happening magically. People with names and institutions are doing this corruption, so. Map it out. kthx.
But he DOESNT take a Salary!
-Free Thinking NOT GULLIBLE Republicans!
Just call them fucking stupid at this point. If you voted for a conman TWICE you're a fucking idiot
A lot went three times.
I mean it’s technically not a salary if you steal money.
There is no need to stress. The next Democratic President will issue blanket pardons, will no do investigations, or Presidential Commissions, or anything that sort.
The Epstein Class always protects each other.
"Now is the time for unity, and to forgive our neighbors" Says every Democrat after a Republican president.
"The Democrats are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp." Says every Republican after a Democratic president.
“The ~~Democrats~~ extreme left are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp.” Says every ~~Republican after a~~ Democratic president.
Also this.
Politicians have been doing the exact same thing as the pedoprez for the history of USA and they will continue to do so regardless of "party" branding.
How do any remaining supporters justify this?
They believe that everyone does it, and that Trump is just better at it.
That's why if you point out something corrupt they point to someone else who the think did something corrupt, instead of saying both should be investigated and punished if actually guilty.
Exactly: "Hunter Biden and his laptop! And Hunter sold art, can you even believe it? Hillary's emails! Bill Clinton gets speaking fees, how is that even possible?"
Lol remember when Hillary's emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.
"Look at what a good businessman he is!"
"If it was actually illegal, he'd be in prison!"
"He's so savvy to not pay for things when payment is due. Why would you pay if you didn't have to?"
"He's made more money while president than any other president because he's the first non-politician president."
My personal favorite: "he donates his salary, that proves he isn't in it to make money. That's why we elected him!"
They don't have to.
They'll never hear about it, and will tell you it's fake when you show them
He has set the precedent that presidents and their families can not only continue to run businesses while in office, but make governing decisions that lead to profit for those businesses. Oh, and getting payments for advertisements from the Resolute desk, and putting up paid advertisements on government property. Oh, and punish federal funding to states, companies, Universities, etc. for not following his executive orders, which are not laws, but are being treated as such.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office
If you think Ritchie Torres, Elissa Slotkin, and Pete Buttigieg are going to save the county, you're going to be very disappointed.
As far as I can tell republicans chose this life for all of us because they were upset that:
They had to wear a mask during covid. Gay people are allowed to be happy. Obama wore a tan suit that one time. Buttery emails.
So now we all get to live shit hole life’s because the crabs at the bottom of the bucket decided to yank everyone down with them and install a king.
If you vote republican, fuck you, genuinely.
I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.
Don't forget to take every last cent the family has. Literally leave them with nothing as punishment.
Likewise some analysts are troubled by how Trump has circumvented the constitution’s prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400m plane as a gift from Qatar, and how other wealthy foreigners have backed some Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad.
Doesn't the constitution ban all emoluments?
Or is this just saying that the other reps are only outraged by accepting foreign bribes, because they all accept domestic bribes..
an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by...expanding his Truth Social business and more
What? How does that make money? Is he selling sugar pills that claim to make your penis bigger or sth?
Edit:
Canter added that “Trump is increasingly dependent on the presidency to generate business profits since his media company has been losing money over the past several quarters.”
Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, on 10 August announced it lost a whopping $238m in the three months through June as it branched out into new businesses including crypto.
Oh, that sounds more correct
He's selling early access to his tweets for money laundering and stock manipulation
"You too can enjoy the same insider access as Barron Trump for the low, low price of $100,000 a month!"
And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes--i.e. the technically legal income.
Well yes and also it doesn't include the money his family has made from deals made after he got office. It's on the order of 5bil+.
"But he doesn't even take a salary!" -MAGA Morons
We could end this in a few weeks if we acted. Everyone wants to hold on to what little they have instead of losing it for a better future.
Trump is practically wasting all of our net gain and allowance just to procrastinate our civic regulations, have our privacy dismantled in high oligarchy enforcements and postpone all climate vulnerability and forestation sedimental deployment just to pressure out incriminatingly virulent fuel sources to our atmosphere.
He's not governing, He's dictating!!!!!!!!!!
Actually outranked Hitler, Pinochet, and King Tarquin as the most inhumanely corrupt cretin ever put in leadership.
And yet his party of gutless and insecure terrorist grifters are not doing anything to contempt his crime streak.
GOP is officially pro corruption pro sectarianism and pro austerity
Wishing tons of non viloent misfurtunes to happen to all republicans.
I'm also wishing violent ones. After all, republicans are nazis, and the only good nazi is the dead nazi.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
So glad we elected this guy again instead of putting him in prison...
Just pure robbery in board daylight. Trump cultists don't care mind you these people were stuck on a laptop for like 5 years lmao.
Many Americans seem to be fine with that, must be some kind of national kink.
Was anyone surprised. Dude had a track record of swindling for decades prior to his presidency.
Trump is the most openly American president to ever live. The stuff he does in the open, were happening in secret for decades. The secret is out.
When people say that crypto has no use... they just sound ignorant, naive, etc.
They're alarmed and yet nobody will do a damned thing to stop this crap . I'm so tired of this mess