Whatever Trump Does Is Corrupt, but the Slush Fund Is the Worst of All;
The president and the acting attorney general have pulled a heist on the American people. We can’t let it disappear into the pile of Trump outrages that benumb us.

Source: FancyNewMe

Share.

39 Comments

  1. rednecronomicon on

    We couldn’t even get half of the country to stop his pedophile shit or his bragging about sexually assaulting women.

    My coworker, who self identifies as an alpha male warrior philosopher, was talking at me the other day about how Trump is turning America around. I asked him what he thought about all the extra wealth he has received since he has been president. He said that Obama and Biden made a lot of money too.

    I told him then they should be investigated and jailed then if that’s true and he agreed. I said the same with Trump and he disagreed.

    I don’t even know how to talk to these people anymore.

  2. danceswithporn on

    It appears that “benumb” was the proper word choice, but I don’t like it.

  3. Gregorious23 on

    IT WAS NEGOTIATED BY HIS OWN FORMER PERSONAL ATTORNEY WHO HE HAS SAID “KEPT HIM OUT OF JAIL!” One of the worst conflicts of interest I’ve ever heard of

  4. InspectionIcy2452 on

    It’s all fine and good to bravely declare that “we can’t let this disappear” into Trump’s pile of outrages.   But how do you propose to stop it?    Trump has done lots of other things that nobody’s been able to stop.    So what’s your plan here? 

    The midterm election is going to come riding to the rescue like some 21st century Prester John?  But what if it doesn’t? What if Trump and his cronies managed to cripple the election sufficiently to prevent the Democrats emerging strong enough to do anything? 

    I’m really fed up with these pollyannish articles about how Trump “must” be stopped, “needs” to be stopped, etc, long on motivation, short on details.

  5. Todd is still young, He will get his day in prison, Trump probably not, he has skated his whole life and will probably skate into the next one without any consequences.

  6. Azfitnessprofessor on

    Senate and House have made it clear they won’t approve this. Trumps poll numbers are in the toilet and he’s a lame duck president his sway can’t last forever.

  7. The user who said politics is about gut feelings and emotion hit the nail on the head. You cannot use a spreadsheet to argue with someone who operates entirely on a vibe. Until the opposition learns to communicate with the same raw emotional resonance it will just be two completely different languages passing each other in the night

  8. mrbasedballed on

    I’m sure it will go through and nothing will be done like everything else. Just wake me up when it’s time to eject these fucks off the planet.

  9. Waste-Time-2440 on

    If a Democrat ever becomes President again, watch the right wing media machine eviscerate him for the tiniest missteps and irregularities. Guaranteed.

  10. Ecstatic-Access-7795 on

    I’m not from the US, but I’m shocked by such open and blatant corruption. It’s on par with third-world countries, if not worse.

  11. So the dementia ridden Rump cries about his personal information going public without his consent. And at the same time his Reich Regime are threating every state to give them all the info on every registered voter without their consent. Until We the People have some method to get everyone to vote against this upcoming 4th Reich Agenda, we are just a repeat of history for the Nazi Party (1933–1945) 3rd Reich.

  12. whateveryousaymydear on

    if you can’t let it disappear…why did ~12 billion in cash disappear during the iraq war?
    Google:Between 2003 and 2004, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) airlifted roughly ($12) billion in cash to Baghdad. While some of the money was properly tracked, government audits eventually concluded that approximately ($9) billion of those funds went completely missing, unaccounted for, or were stolen.

  13. Wayofchinchilla on

    This needs to be the number one issue in 28 not only seizing all that money he stole but seizing everything his family and him have no stalling no spending years in court just civil forfeiture on day one and he’s not getting any of it back.

  14. IMO, the raping of children was worse. But I’m not a Republican and have a working frontal lobe.

  15. barnibusvonkreeps on

    And yet you will let it disappear, because you’re largely a pacified nation now (social media, reality tv etc) with little to no morals or critical thinking abilities. Not your fault entirely though, they deliberately dumbed down your education systems as well so you’re unintentionally stupid as fuck. You’re a movie, Idiocracy to be exact. I hope I’m wrong but I’m not.

  16. PowerResponsibility on

    Even calling it a “slush fund” is giving it too much credit. “Slush funds” usually at least have some kind of arguable public purpose. This is just straight stealing money to pass out to his (criminal) friends. It’s embezzlement. It’s theft.

  17. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

    The whole scheme is completely at odds with the constitution.

    It amounts to a level of corruption you would expect of a king or a dictator.

    Trump was a private citizen when he first filed damages claims against the individual responsible for leaking his tax information.

    That individual was convicted and sent to prison, but when Trump became president, he tried to further settle the matter with HIMSELF by filing another lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages. An unprecedented move.

    Trump’s own DOJ, which now serves at his behest, was supposed to DEFEND the IRS, not work in tandem with the president to negotiate a settlement on his behalf.

    But few people are taking about what this information divulged.

    To put it simply, Trump is a tax evader.

    This is precisely why he broke with presidential tradition and did not release the information himself, even though he pledged otherwise.

    What also isn’t being discussed enough is the process by which a blatantly unlawful, and ludicrous $10 billion dollar lawsuit turned into an “anti-weaponization” fund paid for by the American taxpayer.

    The judge in the case argued that it had no legs because it lacked “adverseness” and was constitutionally invalid.

    In other words, there was no dispute between the parties involved because Trump was opposing himself.

    > “There must be an honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights by one individual against another, which is neither feigned nor collusive.”

    The judge gave Trump and his attorneys a deadline to explain themselves.

    They couldn’t…

    So two days before that deadline, Trump dropped the suit specifically to avoid the judge ruling that the whole case was unconstitutional.

    The judge was about to pull the rug out from underneath Trump when his personal DOJ negotiated the $1,776 BILLION “settlement” to avoid an incontestable ruling.

    The case had no ground to stand on, but Todd Blanche and Trump’s corrupt DOJ found a way around that by concocting a scheme to create a confidential slush fund for him, his corrupt cohorts and his violent followers at the taxpayer’s expense.

    The other question that’s not being asked enough is, if Trump was the supposed victim of the tax leak, why is everyone except Trump getting a payout?

    And the answer only makes sense when you realize the corruption involved.

    The judge was about to rule that Trump couldn’t sue his own government. The case was going to die and Trump would have nothing to show for it.

    The problem was, he couldn’t take the money himself because it would amount to a clear cut violation of the Emoluments Clause, for which Trump would be undoubtedly impeached.

    So instead, the “settlement” was restructured so that, on its face, Trump receives no money but gets in return:

    Immunity in perpetuity from the IRS; permanently barring the agency from ever auditing him, his family or his businesses again

    And of course, $1.776 billion flowing to a slush fund he secretly controls. And a fund no less run by a commission that his own crooked AG appoints and can fire at will.

    All in all, it’s the most egregious misuse of tax dollars and the most corrupt act committed by a president in modern history.

  18. artsyhipsterKratos on

    I mean no it is not. The people he’s killed and the children he has raped are the worst. The norms he’s destroyed that will lead to more deaths and lower quality of life for the foreseeable future. The outright theft is horrific, but it’s only a small part of the legacy.

  19. Charming_Opinion6754 on

    The slush fund is partly to pay off the jan 6 traitors who know too much about who planned it all and how much the ornate turd 💩 was involved

  20. So this is worse than splitting up families and illegally detaining people, occupying cities, and putting hundreds of thousands of people out of their work keeping our food and water safe?

  21. OneUpAndOneDown on

    He’s paying his proud boy foot soldiers to prepare in case anyone tries to remove him from office.

  22. Not worse than the Epstein stuff – at least for those of us who actually care about people.

  23. It’s only one of the worst so far, not of all, not even close to what we will see.

  24. GrandAholeio on

    Next administration needs to apply RICO to the whole family and cabinet.

Leave A Reply