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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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“Biden crime family” = bad. Trumps crime family = good and approved by the SCOTUS.
No wonder Trump loves Putin so much, he wants the same oligarchy in the US!
Trump is Russia’s most valuable asset.
Remember when they crucified Clinton for giving nights in the White House in exchange for large campaign donations?
For 5 years the Republicans attacked a private citizen who wasn’t in a government role just because he benefited from being related to the Vice President / President.
And a lot of undecided and uncertain people followed that and read about it and listened and watched and for 5 years they hammered the Biden administration as being the most corrupt regime to ever stain the White House.
Republicans didn’t have power for 5 years yet they managed to keep this investigation constantly in the news.
Why are Democrats incapable of bringing this very real, unprecedented in its scale and openness, corruption of President Trump’s to the American people?
I know why Republicans don’t do anything. They’re beyond hope. They believe any means justify the end. Our only hope is Democrats find someone willing to do this work for the next 4 years so every undecided person in this country knows precisely what President Trump really is.
This is news?
He did the same thing last time, only with foreign countries buying blocks of rooms at Trump Hotel no one ever stayed in.
Unironically, he couldn’t even bribe right, and it went bankrupt.
Sauce:
[https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/](https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/)
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-dinner-mar-a-lago](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-dinner-mar-a-lago)
Not the first time either:
[https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-inauguration-committee-sells-candlelight-150702535.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-inauguration-committee-sells-candlelight-150702535.html)
Imagine Fox News if this was Biden
Pay to play
If I had $1 million, I sure as heck wouldn’t waste it on dinner with this guy.
Heck, you couldn’t *pay me* to have dinner with him.
But he’s not taking his $400,000 salary as president so it’s all ok.
If only we had addressed this in the United States Constitution….
“Article II, Section 1, Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”
[Emoluments Clause](https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C7-1/ALDE_00000233/#:~:text=Article%20II%2C%20Section%201%2C%20Clause,States%2C%20or%20any%20of%20them.)
https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/
Who would pay $5.000.000 to eat with a convicted felon?
I’d rather pay $50 for pizza and beers with my best friends
In my part of the world, known as the free, democratic world, it would be totally illegal.
Hate to be that guy but SOURCE?
In the era of misinformation, those of us who want to properly counter corruption should provide sources because the MAGA camp is quick to call anything fake news. We shouldn’t actually spread fake news, tho this absolutely seems like some shit he would do.
Trump openly accepting multi-million dollar bribes from business leaders who “don’t have the budget to pay more than minimum wage 🥺”
God this country fucken sucks
*Versailles intensifies*
I’m sure the money the Trump admin collectes from these “fees” will go to Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare research, programs to help Americans…trust him. He’s a successful businessman /s…did I do that right?
So they whined Biden was getting a cut for bribes and Trump is openly taking bribes and we know how much.
Wild that we’re actually here to witness the collapse of American democracy and transition into a Russian-like oligarchy.
Didn’t even last that long. Just a few lifetimes.
Buy a gun. Learn how to use it.
Technically it’s not a bribe if he agrees to do something and then completely neglects to do that thing 👌
Absolutely no reason for quotes. They’re bribes.
Ooof maybe if this was 2023. I’m sure these are official dinners. The president can’t commit crimes doing official stuff. The bribe heavy ethics free Supreme Court said so.
Remember when republicans were outraged that Hilary was getting fees for speaking engagements because _that_ was blatant bribery? Heh heh, oh man. Fun times.
Here in Australia, there’s a big uproar about donations to parties from independent entities, so there was talk on a donation imit, plus some of those laws have passed.
BUT….. “political dinners” are a way to pass on donations to the party of your choice legally as it’s not seen as a donation. It’s just going to lunch to eat a $30,000 bowl of asparagus with puree’d kale and barley clippings.
Nothing suss.
So uh… I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this has been going on for decades. The only thing surprising here is the openness of it. At this point I don’t even think this is legal. Doesn’t make it right, though. If you want examples of this being done in the past, look up the Doug Band memo leak.
Fits the US like a glove he does.
Just like Russia…just sayin’ 🤷🏾♂️
One assumes that they are talking about American businessmen and not some shady Russians.
Like.. wtf.. if ye didn’t have so many guns, coz the pitchfork wielding peasants would have been doing business by now…
Wonder where all this money is going because it sure as shit into going to the government
Maybe I can just die
The move of an asshole..
I mean… didn’t he end the law/order against accepting bribes?
To pay his legal fees??
Stockholders should sue their executives if they bribe anyone.
https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/
Cry more TDS !!!
My husband says he’ll pay a million to not sit with Donald Trump LOL.
Conservatives have always been pro oligarchy and pro bribes. If you see one conservative, if you know one conservative, you can’t stop this. As long as conservatism is there this will be the result. If you want to stop Trump or oligarchy you must get rid of conservatism.
Gonna need to follow the example of the French pretty soon…
Corruption
I want to wake up, I want to wake up..
Is this real?!? What are the sources? I’ve never supported Trump and I find it believable, but I refuse to to sink to their level and just blindly accept things I read or hear.
You don’t think they all take money ? Have you not been paying attention ?
Paying whom?
-EDIT-
Oh I see, the invitation says that Trump is speaking at the event for free, so the money is going to the MAGA, Inc Super PAC, I guess? That makes it above board /s
I bet he chews with his mouth open and talks with a full mouth.
It’s not that it doesn’t ‘crack’ the news cycle, it’s that the media is complicit.
Let’s count the ways the rich are funnelling bribes to Trump:
1. Booking rooms at Trump Tower / Mar-a-Lago and not using them
2. Pump and dump crypto
3. Settling lawsuits with no merit
4. …