Trump Claims the Right to Cut Himself Blank Checks from Lawsuits: “I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself.”
Source: T_Shurt
Trump Claims the Right to Cut Himself Blank Checks from Lawsuits: “I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself.”
Source: T_Shurt
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From the article:
Trump has claimed that he has the right to funnel as much taxpayer money into his accounts as he likes.
When asked by reporters what it was like to be on both sides of a lawsuit, Trump responded that “no one would care” if he awarded himself taxpayer funds for his own hand-selected “charities.”
As president, Trump has launched multiple lawsuits against the U.S. government that he is in charge of. He is seeking damages of more than $10 billion.
“I have to work out some sort of settlement,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself.”
Trump has personally grown his net worth an estimated $3.9 billion during the first year of his second term.
Man talks about doing something for “charity” with this money.
Reminder that he, and no one in his family, is allowed to operate a charity in one of the most populous states in the US because of how nakedly they stole from their charity.
From Ro Khanna (D-California):
**“What are we looking for? The** [**FBI**](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/fbi) **statements. We need to see whether the 302 forms are being released. That’s where the survivors mention who the other rich and powerful men are who abused or raped them… and second, are the prosecution memos being released? This is the document that shows why these rich and powerful men weren’t prosecuted.”**
As we’ve already said here many times before, your right to do something, or not do something is based on enforcement, **not** what’s written on a piece of paper.
The Constitution may give me a right to peacefully protest, but if I’m carted off by ICE then I don’t really have that right.
Likewise, if no one stops Trump from writing himself blank checks, then indeed he has that right.
Bragging about stealing taxpayer money at this point. GOP remains silent, nothing to see here.
Pure rank corruption we’re not fucking doing this. I’m not gonna give him my harder money this corrupt piece of shit. Can we counter-sue ?
No matter how insane these trump headlines are now all I can think of is the fact that he’s a pedophile and getting to keep his job as president. I feel like that is the only headline we should be seeing.
Even Putin is more covert about his corruption. Somebody give Trump a prize for exposing corruption.
Okay, so is he saying he is both plaintiff and defendant in this IRS lawsuit?
Conflicts of interest have to be made criminal. Where is Congress?
We had to sit here for 4 years listening to “Biden crime family” and all the nonsense republicans lied about, now that trump is back and is more corrupt than ever, they’re all totally silent. He’s getting obvious bribes all the time, selling pardons, embezzling, selling meetings, golfing a ton, personally suing the government, making billions, and complete crickets from republicans.
Just to put things in perspective. The alleged scale of Somali daycare fraud at worst is… 250M. Meanwhile, Trump thinks the government owes him roughly 10.25B for various alleged civil rights violations…
The rightwing pearl clutching about ‘fraud’, ‘waste’, and ‘abuse’ is nothing short of laughably comical hypocrisy.
If we are going the way that the SCOTUS seems to want to go with the Unitary Exec Theory, the President should not be able to file suits against any agency under the Exec branch while he is in office becuase he is essentially suing himself. Let him sue after he is out of office and has no immediate/direct influence on those agencies he wants to sue.
Imagine if Obama, Bill Clinton, either Bush, Biden or the right’s patron saint Reagan absconded $10 billion of tax payer money…oh wait…they didn’t…
Fuck Trump
emoluments clause, yeah we’ve heard of it.
He is legit crazy. This man is on his very own version of The Truman Show.
Stop this horror show, please
Lock this pedophile up already.
So really he’s using the presidency as his own personal ATM machine, but with no upper limit. Ten billion is a ridiculous sum for a payout for a leaked tax return. There was no damage at all to his reputation. If the courts were at all legitimate, he might get 10k.
Putin has amassed a fortune of up to $200 Billion. Trump will want to best that, of course, so we have a long way to go.
Supreme church did this. They told a narcissist bully he could do anything he wanted and would not be held accountable.
What a grifter. And if you think we are done paying for the grift once he’s out of office you’re wrong. He will sink our global standing and dollar value to make a personal buck today. That’s ALL he cares about. Let’s keep it up, America. Nothing to see here.
Im reveling in the this. Let the whole fucking thing burn. Go for it trump, fuck everything up please. Moderates who would take over for you anyways aren’t going to hold anyone accountable and wouldn’t do anything different than you are now.
Lutnick was actually inviting Epstein to a Hillary Clinton fund raiser back in 2016, now he is the commerce secretary. Fuck the whole system.
Trump is basically admitting that he sees himself as above the law, and given nobody will stop him, that essentially proves him right.
Everyone thinks trump is using all these crazy issues to distract from the Epstein file but what he is really doing is a classic con. He is making us look away while he robs every American. He will get away with this and at the end if his term the economy will collapse and he will sit back with all the billions he stole and laugh at everyone.
Reminder.. he was president when this happened. Meaning.. he was ultimately responsible for the federal government. He is literally suing himself and taking our money.
Except you’re really taking money from the government and putting it in your own pocket. It’s like you’re in charge of payroll at your company. “If I give myself a $100k bonus it’s like I’m hurting myself”….. Except it’s not. You’d be stealing from your employer.
This is literally what he’s doing, but he’s doing it to the American people who find these “settlements” with their own tax payments. For the DOJ, to allow this kind of ethical decision to be made is really disappointing. Republicans and Democrats have failed the American people.
Someone please put his ass in jail!!
Only Donald Trump would consider violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution so blatantly.
This gives a pretty obvious basis for the government to seize ALL Trump’s wealth and hold on to it and work out how much of Trump’s wealth came from bribes and exploiting his office for financial gain before returning anything to him or his children.
So he’s going to take **our** money and supposedly give it to charity – and that’s 100% fucked up. Sadly, the gullible and stupid MAGA cult are likely to be totally OK with this.
This is your money folks, you taxpayers you. You know—the taxes you pay every year and can barely afford to, this is on your dime.
Impeach Trump now before he awards himself land and title to all of North America.
Child rapist piece of shit just casually stealing our money.
Fuck Maga and fuck his entire administration. Pieces of shit every single one of them.
Ah yes, Heritage and SCOTUS’ “Unified Executive Theory” reaches its inevitable conclusion.
Basically stealing money from taxpayers!
That money that is taxed from your paycheck goes right to pedo trump.
Your hard earn money is being stolen by trump!
Your hard earn money is paying for ICE to take your constitutional rights away!
I’m going to assume not one person that referred to the Bidens as the “Biden Crime Family” has anything I’ll to say about this.