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I love it when he just stands up there and blithely admits to all the crimes and then nothing happens.
“That’s a small amount of money. You know, it sounds like a lot of money. That’s small,” Trump said at the town hall.
So he's a cheap bribe.
He just means it's a small amount of money for billionaires. They paid outrageous markups.
The joke is he completely misses the point that he shouldn't have used his private businesses to host foreign government officials, or to conduct official business. That's a conflict of interest in itself no matter how much they spent.
Lol he's not a billionaire
What's the difference between a guy who got a billion dollars the hard way, selling cocaine down in Florida, and the guy who got it the easy way, by scamming a bunch of dumb shit bankers to extend him loans on extremely shady terms and using the credit to speculate in foreclosed golf courses and failing casinos?
It all spends the same, either way.
For those wondering why this is a big deal:
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8:
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Emolument:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/emolument#Noun
emolument (plural emoluments)
(formal) Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary. synonyms ▲quotations ▼Synonyms: compensation, fee, payment, remuneration
For fucks sake, they made Jimmy Carter give up a damn peanut farm, but not the orange chucklefuck who has a DC Hotel…
no way that was used to buy access or influence… none at all /s
Fuckin Donald Adultman over here, doing a business. This is the worst goddamn timeline.
I must be from another time line, because here nobody sane would call that crybaby 'Adultman'
No it's from Bojack Horseman. Vincent Adultman is multiple kids in a trenchcoat and he always says he's doing a business.
Ow sorry it's root is adultery, not 'adult'? Ok, makes sense now!
Money laundering for foreigners has been the basis of the Trump Inc business model since the 1980s. Hell, I think this goes back to his father's rise to fortune back in the 1950s, even.
Like, yeah. He's a crook. But he's the kind of crook this country has been gleefully manufacturing and showering with praise for their genius and entrepreneurial spirit and innovative efforts for over a century.
If he'd been a bit smarter and a bit more ambitious, he could have been a Bernie Madoff or a Sam Bankman Fried, even.
dont neglect the balls
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Trump was at a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, commenting on a recent report from Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee.
The report, published on January 4, said Trump's businesses had received at least $7.8 million in foreign payments during his presidency.
Foreign governments and government-controlled entities had made payments to Trump's hotels in Washington, Las Vegas, and New York.
"President Trump never sought or received Congress's approval to keep these foreign payments, as the Constitution requires," the authors wrote.
Trump was indicted in four separate prosecutions last year and faces 91 criminal counts, ranging from falsifying business records to election interference.
Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, and recent polls suggest a close fight between him and President Joe Biden.
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