Post AuSWNvBFYR2tEfK7CC by pa27@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AuSBMOW5PlTebSV4gS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:19:37Z
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#GiftArticleWhen Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furor erupted over reports that she had once made $100k from a $1k investment in cattle futures. Even though it had happened a dozen years before her husband became president, it became a scandal that lasted weeks & forced the White House to initiate a review.#Trump #law #emoluments #corruption https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.MV12.FMyyoC3z_EI_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AuSBP6xX9HFt1EdMn2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:20:06Z
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31 years later, after dinner at Mar-a-Lago, #JeffBezos agreed to finance a promotional film about #MelaniaTrump that will reportedly put $28M directly in her pocket—280 times the Clinton lucre & in this case from a person with a vested interest in #policies set by her husband’s govt. Scandal? Furor? Washington moved on while barely taking notice.#Trump #law #emoluments #corruption
(DIR) Post #AuSBbduCTtGifu3Ay8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:22:21Z
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The #Trumps are not the 1st presidential family to profit from their time in power, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the WH. The scale & the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking. The #Trump family & its business partners have collected $320M…from a new #cryptocurrency, brokered overseas #RealEstate deals worth billions…& is opening an exclusive club in Washington called the #ExecutiveBranch charging $500k apiece to join…
(DIR) Post #AuSBdu2XSr7lIJ1oP2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:22:48Z
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Just last week, #Qatar handed over a luxury #jet meant for #Trump’s use not just in his official capacity but also for his [nonexistent]*presidential library* after he leaves office. Experts have valued plane, formally donated to the *Air Force*, at $200M, more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.#Trump #law #emoluments #corruption
(DIR) Post #AuSBxdBLqprInnYcQy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:26:21Z
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And #Trump hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club for 220 investors in the $TRUMP #cryptocurrency that he started days before taking office in January. Access was openly #sold based on how much #money they chipped in — not to a campaign account but to a business that benefits Trump personally. [He also gave the top investors a White House tour on Friday]#law #emoluments #corruption #influence
(DIR) Post #AuSCD5kZuxGPkTPHLU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:29:09Z
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By conventional Washington standards, acc/to students of official #graft, the still-young #Trump admin is a candidate for the most brazen use of government office in American history, perhaps eclipsing even Teapot Dome, Watergate & other famous scandals.“I’ve been watching & writing about #corruption for 50 years, & my head is still spinning,” said Michael Johnston, a professor emeritus at Colgate University & author of multiple books on corruption in the United States.#law #emoluments
(DIR) Post #AuSCUmumgaFIXncQ3U by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:32:14Z
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Yet a mark of how much #Trump has transformed Washington since his return to power is the normalization of moneymaking schemes that once would have generated endless political blowback, televised hearings, official investigations & damage control. The death of outrage in the Trump era, or at least the dearth of outrage, exemplifies how far the president has moved the lines of accepted behavior in Washington.#law #emoluments #corruption #influence
(DIR) Post #AuSCVnLWZGTUAgbeLI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-05-25T13:32:31Z
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#Trump, the first #convicted #felon elected president, has erased #ethical boundaries & dismantled the instruments of accountability that constrained his predecessors. There will be no official investigations because Trump has made sure of it. He has fired government inspectors general & #ethics watchdogs, installed partisan loyalists to run the DOJ, FBI & regulatory agencies & dominated a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to hold hearings.#law #emoluments #corruption #influence
(DIR) Post #AuSCcQc3UKuHgyV9fc by JosephMeyer@c.im
2025-05-25T13:33:41Z
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@Nonilex Complaints about Hillary Clinton were never about ethics. They were more likely about misogyny in which Trump excels. What a shameless country.
(DIR) Post #AuSDz97AoORe2NSAKm by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T13:49:00Z
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@Nonilex I'm surprised the New York Times bothered to post this
(DIR) Post #AuSGrQvL0v4SoivnZA by samiamsam@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T14:21:13Z
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@Nonilex what if Obama....what if Biden.......oh never mind
(DIR) Post #AuSH6SkwU2X8qNEeky by FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone
2025-05-25T14:23:56Z
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@Nonilex Yeah, whitewater. Hillary and Bill were absolutely corrupted warmongers. But keep propping them up because they're slightly better than Trump.
(DIR) Post #AuSHfvJgHyKnYcOR3w by peterbrown@mastodon.scot
2025-05-25T14:30:20Z
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@Nonilex interesting how none of them want to be photographed on the corruptionfest.
(DIR) Post #AuSHuh9PEsO1y0dADg by PeachMcD@union.place
2025-05-25T14:32:56Z
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@Nonilex @ThomHartmann said that the leaders of Hamas pretty much all live in #QatarIf that's true, and Qatar is harboring people that #USian taxpayers are arming #Israel to eliminate in #Gaza.... #wtaf?
(DIR) Post #AuSJEIrdLUjYOBEQ1Q by xs4me2@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T14:47:45Z
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@Nonilex The art of the grift… congrats #usa, now live with it…
(DIR) Post #AuSJJN0LNYH4g7ioC0 by Trez13@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T14:48:41Z
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@Nonilex "as Outrage Is Censored"?
(DIR) Post #AuSJJz0K64pwX40KR6 by AJ_andrew69@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T14:48:48Z
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@Nonilex You've nailed it 👏. Now, his billionaire sycophants are destroying everything that they can.
(DIR) Post #AuSPfr7Qh8SSAj8orI by darwinwoodka@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T15:59:56Z
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@Nonilex I've long since quit complaining about the hypocrisy and now go straight to pointing out that Trump is a mob boss and we shouldn't be surprised that it's a mobster government now. But if they don't have laws, we don't have laws, and why the fuck should ANYONE do what they say. A lawless administration cannot expect its orders to be followed by anyone.
(DIR) Post #AuSVnPcxOHymwysH3o by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T17:08:34Z
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@Nonilex I think you've put your finger on the key difference.Clinton's scandal "lasted for weeks.". Trump scandals are continuously displaced by new ones and left unaddressed, building a sense of invulnerability and normalization.It's been one week and no one talks about a foreign government giving Trump a frickin' airplane anymore.#ThisIsAmericaNow
(DIR) Post #AuSWNvBFYR2tEfK7CC by pa27@mastodon.social
2025-05-25T17:15:10Z
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@Nonilex Oh, and the insider trading. Every time the stock market dumps on tariff talk, then rebounds, he and his cronies make money.
(DIR) Post #AuSY7pIfqi46H0FVZY by KanaMauna@sauropods.win
2025-05-25T17:34:37Z
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@Nonilex And yet there’s still weirdos out there that say that both parties are the same.
(DIR) Post #AuSZTzPr1GFjyJjvCi by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-05-25T17:49:46Z
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@Nonilex which reminds me - Warren G. Harding cluelessly appointed all the Republican leaders to various positions of power that they used only for grift, but he was a better president than Trump.John Dean wrote a book about him.
(DIR) Post #AuSjRSAcec9ppC2oyW by tarheel@mstdn.io
2025-05-25T19:41:28Z
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@Nonilex@5ciFiGirl Quaint, wasn't it?No Republican objection to anything a Democratic president does should count, for at least a generation.
(DIR) Post #AwZyTgb6TA6wPBcfAG by amalia22@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T03:17:06Z
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@Nonilex Release the Epstein Files. Trump is enriching himself massively by blackmailing the ones on the list.