Post Atmmig5HB0mSNQfdrM by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #Atmmig5HB0mSNQfdrM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:00:19Z
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#Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the PresidentDonald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world & announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump #SCOTUS #immunity #Republicans #accomplices https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D133B4F8-D174-4E43-8382-B1751B1F6A04
(DIR) Post #Atmn32wlsnQj4nPBS4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:04:02Z
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A contest of sorts has played out across #Europe, the #UnitedStates & the #MiddleEast in recent days as #Trump’s 2 older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name & power, each seemingly trying to outdo the other.It is a rush to cash in that involves billions of dollars with few precedents in American history.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #Atmn6cv0b7vdVcHuWe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:04:40Z
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A luxury hotel in #Dubai. A second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, #SaudiArabia. 2 #cryptocurrency ventures based in the #US. A new golf course & villa complex in #Qatar. And a new private club in #Washington. In many cases these new deals promoted over the last week will personally benefit not only Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr., but also President #Trump himself.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmnCz6f15MC3qlmO8 by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-05-05T14:05:47Z
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@Nonilex But Hunter Biden! Ah, yes. The Chomsky rule. It’s only wrong when THEY do it. #WhereIsMySurprisedFace
(DIR) Post #AtmnE76kkj1XAPLqFc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:06:03Z
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The marathon of deal making has been so rapid that many elements have drawn limited public attention in the #UnitedStates, despite most of it being out in the open. That is in part because the sons appeared before mostly fawning crowds but also because #Trump, his appointees & his billionaire adviser #ElonMusk were making headlines with their own steady stream of norm-breaking controversies.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmnVk8etGzP8peIT2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:09:13Z
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“There’s nothing like it,” said Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University historian who has written books on Presidents Ronald Reagan & Gerald R. Ford, addressing the financial #ConflictsOfInterest that have emerged in #Trump’s 2nd term.Both Trump sons are involved in a wide range of family business ventures. Eric Trump, the president’s middle son, runs the #TrumpOrganization, the main family business, which *specializes* in real estate [#fraud].#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmncmhTlTuF75IGH2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:10:29Z
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Eric also serves on the board of a holding company that oversees #WorldLibertyFinancial, the family’s #crypto firm, & recently joined forces w/his older brother, Donald Trump Jr, to start a #Bitcoin mining operation, American Bitcoin.The WH has said there are no #ethics issues because #Trump’s sons run the businesses🤣. “The president’s assets are in a trust managed by his children,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said. “There are no conflicts of interest.”😉#law #EmolumentsClause
(DIR) Post #AtmnghLvaa3Ngc4yv2 by SueDiOh@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T14:11:10Z
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@Nonilex Because daddy is nuts and the grift is coming to an end.
(DIR) Post #AtmnxMVYLIXjxbWkq0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:14:13Z
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But #Trump’s financial disclosure report, which he is legally required to file, shows that he still personally benefits financially from most of these ventures.Eric Trump said that many of the ventures…—from #crypto to #RealEstate —were underway *before* their father was re-elected.…Donald Trump Jr rejected any suggestion that he was trading on his father’s name, saying he has been a businessman his entire adult life.🤣😂#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmoAaxvtsTSZ56zuy by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-05-05T14:16:35Z
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@Nonilex No conflicts of interest in Trump's sons running his businesses while he sits in the Oval Office? Guffaw. There is no doubt that micromanager Trump, with sons of even more limited ability than he has, would let them make key decisions about anything. There's also no doubt that they are relentlessly using his sitting in the White House as a major marketing tool, which has all the appearance of a major violation of the emoluments clause.
(DIR) Post #AtmoDyv1IevFirMdX6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:17:13Z
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…relatives of other presidents — including Billy Carter (brother of Pres Jimmy Carter) & Neil Bush (brother of Pres George W. Bush), along with Hunter Biden (son of Pres Joe Biden),— have had business dealings that have created questions about potential conflicts of interest.What distinguishes the work of #Trump’s 2 sons is that several of these ventures, including the real estate deals & crypto efforts, bring revenues that benefit the president himself as well.#law #EmolumentsClause
(DIR) Post #AtmoFpPnbZHOpKdpKq by hszakher@mastodon.world
2025-05-05T14:17:29Z
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@Nonilex “There are no conflicts of interest.”, there is no interest to see here
(DIR) Post #AtmoGFxiu3rfA4iHp2 by Ehay2k@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T14:17:37Z
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@Nonilex Hunter Biden would like a word with his persecutors.
(DIR) Post #AtmoWsXpDskbSJWf5s by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:20:38Z
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Just in the past 10 days, #DonaldTrumpJr made stops in #Hungary, #Romania, #Serbia & #Bulgaria on a paid-speech tour he has called “Trump Business Vision 2025,” which also included visits w/ #ForeignGovernment leaders & #political candidates. During roughly the same time, #EricTrump was shuttling among #Qatar, the #UAE & other #MiddleEast spots to push the family’s #RealEstate & #crypto plans.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmokSXwgD9GsW3eBE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:23:05Z
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These pitches played out even as some of Donald Trump Jr’s business partners were simultaneously rolling out yet another business in Washington that will cash in on #Trump’s return to the White House: a club called “#ExecutiveBranch”.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmoocTxgHGEqsB6n2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:23:50Z
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At $500k a person, the private membership club is slated to open by summer in a sprawling, but defunct, restaurant called Clubhouse. It will feature 2 bars, a lounge, a restaurant & boardroom — re-creating the role previously served by the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, where donors & acolytes of #Trump gathered [including #Jan6 insurrectionists who were convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy] until the family sold it off after Trump’s 1st term.#law #EmolumentsClause
(DIR) Post #AtmouyLlI2oGPXN7i4 by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-05-05T14:24:56Z
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@Nonilex This is one reason everyone laughs about Eric Trump's limitations - and the idea that Trump would really entrust his businesses to him for more than an hour.He argues that because a deal originated or was "underway," like the Titanic, before Trump entered office, receiving revenue or other benefit from it can't be a conflict of interest. Anyone but Eric would know that the timing is irrelevant. Benefiting from it while Trump is in office is what counts.
(DIR) Post #AtmpIfSz9MRSnL38Pw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:29:16Z
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The club soon likely will be jammed w/ #Trump family friends, business execs & members of the admin, but will be off limits to members of the #public & most members of the #news #media.[It will most likely function like Mar-a-Lago as a place for Trump to do business w/o the pesky record keepers at the WH].A…party was held last month to celebrate the launch of “#ExecutiveBranch” …at a hotel a block from the WH. Attendees included #PamBondi, the AG, & #PaulAtkins, the new #SEC chair.#law
(DIR) Post #AtmpjcatwAeXhmbYFU by Canuckrs@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T14:33:30Z
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@Nonilex yup I said this from the beginning when he won, that he will walk away in 4 years probably richest in the world or close to it, it's all about money with the Trump family & they don't care how they get it.
(DIR) Post #AtmpjhGAag2aAvwZ84 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:33:15Z
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The founding members of the club, which has already sold many of its membership slots acc/to organizers, include Cameron & Tyler #Winklevoss, the #cryptocurrency execs whose company, #GeminiTrust, had been targeted by the #SEC until #Trump named new agency leaders, who in April put a hold on the federal lawsuit.#law #corruption #broligarchy #plutocracy #technocracy #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #Atmpjn2v4r0U7Zn4JE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:33:35Z
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#JeffMiller, a lobbyist & top #Trump fundraiser, is another founding member. In the Q1 of this year, he has registered to represent 39 new corporate clients, including the #crypto firm #Tether, an overseas operation that was a longtime target of US regulators until recently….#law #corruption #broligarchy #plutocracy #technocracy #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #Atmq1BeQqjXfM5dFRY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:36:38Z
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Other club owners, besides #DonaldTrumpJr, include Zach & Alex #Witkoff — the sons of #Trump’s #MiddleEast envoy #SteveWitkoff — & #OmeedMalik, who leads #1789Capital, a Florida-based #VC firm that recently *hired* Donald Trump Jr as a snr exec. The investments for 1789 Capital have included companies such as #Plaid, a #DigitalFinance firm that had lobbied the #CFPB related to a new set of banking rules—until Trump’s team effectively shut down the agency & stalled enforcement of the #regulation.
(DIR) Post #Atmq7FkoVY3jolVeam by rich@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-05T14:38:21Z
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@Nonilex isn't there a quote from DT where his father gave him "a small loan of a million dollars..." 😕
(DIR) Post #AtmqCq0j8MNLiJcFQu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:39:23Z
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#DavidSacks, who is a #crypto adviser to #Trump & another founding member, said the goal is *not* to create a venue for #access😉. Rather, he said in a recent podcast, “we want a place to hang out in DC” for the “younger, hipper, #Trump-aligned #Republican.”Even as these real-life ventures were playing out, another push for #profit was underway in the virtual world. Investors in the $Trump #memecoin are bidding to become the top 220 owners of the collectible coin & win a dinner w/the president…
(DIR) Post #AtmqSqOnST3fYEVTfs by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T14:42:16Z
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@Nonilex So many laws...So little time to break them allDoing their best, though🫤
(DIR) Post #AtmqgSMrbP0B4e5qq0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:44:46Z
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The $Trump memecoin is controlled by a company *run by* the #Trump sons & their partners, but Trump has actively encouraged his supporters to buy it.Javier Selgas, chief exec at #Fr8Tech, a shipping company, announced this past wk…that his Monterrey, Mexico-based co would spend $20M to buy $Trump memecoin tokens.Buying the tokens—in essence, giving money to the #Trump family—is “an effective way to advocate for fair, balanced & free #trade between Mexico & the US,” Selgas said….#law
(DIR) Post #AtmquN2UD8TubMCGOG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:47:16Z
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In some cases, the #Trump-family announcements over the past week have involved #ForeignGovernments, including those of #Qatar & the #UAE.#EricTrump flew to #Doha, the capital of the tiny #MiddleEast nation of Qatar, on Wednesday as a govt official there signed a deal with a #Saudi-based #RealEstate company to build a new Trump golf course & luxury villa complex, a partnership & will bring millions of dollars in branding & mgmt fees to the Trump family.#law #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmrA4fSHcnCFyuciW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:50:08Z
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This is 1 of 6 #RealEstate projects now planned in the #MiddleEast, sponsored by #DarGlobal, the international subsidiary of a #Saudi-based real estate firm with close ties to the #SaudiRoyalFamily. The other projects are in #SaudiArabia, #Oman & #Dubai.“They always arrive at the word ‘yes,’ which is a beautiful thing,”Eric #Trump said while in Dubai this past wk, saying that it took only a month to get the required real estate permits from the govt there…#law #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmrIHnBN0PdHLRTvc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:51:36Z
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On a crypto conference panel in Dubai, Eric Trump sat next to Zach Witkoff, one of the founders of the #Trump family #crypto firm, #WorldLibertyFinancial, who announced that a VC firm backed by the #government of #AbuDhabi would invest $2 billion using a form of digital currency offered by World Liberty. This deal alone could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the Trump family & its partners.#law #corruption #broligarchy #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmrLMBBW0VTko8Kie by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-05-05T14:52:09Z
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@Nonilex LOL. Sacks and others are happy to provide cover for another Trump grift. His family's new private club, minutes from the White House, is designed for grift. It's the Trump Int'l Hotel in DC on steroids.This exclusive club is designed to generate or foster access, networking, mutual support, and grift. Dollars to donuts Trump will know precisely what each member spends, before he gives them more intimate access.
(DIR) Post #AtmrbYf0sWvT63oKbQ by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T14:55:03Z
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@Nonilex 🤮
(DIR) Post #Atmrmnqok1VtOVh6Gm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T14:57:08Z
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#DonaldTrumpJr …arriv[ed] on April 25 in #Budapest, where he had a brief meeting w/ #Hungary’s foreign minister, #PeterSzijjarto, & then was #paid to appear at a dinner…of business leaders.“I’m just here as a business guy, but as someone who understands how the world works,” [right] Jr told an exec from…the org that sponsored the event, adding that while he was in #EasternEurope & the Balkans he was looking for new deals. “You never know if there is going to be a #Trump #RealEstate deal.”#law
(DIR) Post #Atms4i66s3HwlNNzDE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T15:00:21Z
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Donald Trump Jr’/ next stop was #Serbia, where the #Trump family is planning a new hotel on land owned by the #government there. He met w/ President #AleksandarVucic, whose admin approved the hotel project, which also includes Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, as the developer. “No one has ever said that we are inhospitable: We prepared this pig for Donald Jr Trump,” Vucic boasted on his FB page, about his meal w/Trump.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump
(DIR) Post #AtmsQSSjgMLSduL5d2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T15:04:18Z
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Donald #Trump Jr then moved on to #Bulgaria, where he appeared on a stage along w/ #AntoniTrenchev, the co-founder of a #cryptocurrency firm called #Nexo that was fined $45M by the #SEC in 2023 & agreed to leave the US marketplace.With Jr at his side, Trenchev announced that Nexo had already talked to US regulators & it was re-entering the US market. “America is back—& so is Nexo,”Trenchev said, celebrating his meeting where he #paid to be w/the son of the president of the United States…#law
(DIR) Post #AtmsZK2WMqAz7sIv7w by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T15:05:54Z
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#Trump, in recent days, was doing his part as well to help drive business to the family.He attended a fund-raising event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida this past weekend. That makes his 10th visit to the club since he returned to the White House in January, with many of the weekend visits featuring political gatherings that #pay bills to his family.#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump #SCOTUS #immunity #Republicans #accomplices
(DIR) Post #Atmtc6xRYtwhNNp5Pc by Huntn00@mastodon.world
2025-05-05T15:17:34Z
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@Nonilex Fair, balanced, free?? Holy Shit, lay off the Koolaid you freak (directed at the target).
(DIR) Post #AtmwIEp4uTKlq97qN6 by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T15:47:27Z
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@Nonilex Remember how "Billy Beer" was a national scandal of a POTUS family member cashing in? These Trump deals in dictatorships around the world, this is fine.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer
(DIR) Post #AtmwZ1GgYjMoiw2Zn6 by DemDifference@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T15:50:34Z
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@Nonilex Trump II: Corrupt Payoffs for Him, Higher Prices for You• Crooked deals benefiting Trump and rich cronies• Price-hiking tariffs for families and small business• Flagrant violations of free speech and due process
(DIR) Post #AtmwvHwDGIYanM5E6y by darwinwoodka@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T15:54:24Z
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@Nonilex well anyone who deals with them will get what they deserve I guess
(DIR) Post #AtmyVMqoZaSkPZKHS4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-05T16:12:25Z
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@darwinwoodka If only. I’m sure they’ll all be pardoned.
(DIR) Post #Atn0y0RXABaFDmHiym by grammasaurus@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T16:39:53Z
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@Nonilex So much travel by private jet (hello, climate change!)So much money changing hands….but never any money for pressing world problems. How do members of the GOP sleep at night? or look at themselves in the mirror every morning? #corruption #complicit
(DIR) Post #Atn6YxXfPawui1arVw by jhavok@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T17:42:39Z
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@Nonilex I can't wait for these shits to be in prison. Alcatraz would be nice.