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The Official 2nd Term Trump corruption thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Jan 7, 2025.

  1. astros123

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    Can you believe some of his low iq cultists @Tomstro @Salvy @El_Conquistador have audacity to whine about fraud or corruption while they worship the most corrupt president in American history. At this point being MAGA is a mental disease

     
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    Where are the people who yelled from the top of the roof about Hunter? People like, J Rogan, M Kelly, Musk, ALL the folks at fox..............there have bent the knee, I hope they all fail when this **** show is over
     
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    Of course I can believe it. There are plenty of folks so brainwashed into cult mentality, that will never believe anyone but their cult leader. It's exactly what Trump counts on as a manipulating con man.
     
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    They crawl into their shells and come out to repeat Trump's lies, then crawl back into their shells and ignore the fact checks, corruption, pardons for sale, conflicts of interest, and profiteering off his power.
     
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    Or if there was another way to call this stuff....?
     
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    Honesty asking but how do you deal with this sort of brain rot? These people are literally braindead
     
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    @astros123 in the midst of actual corruption posts, this is what he does. post a random AI distraction.

    it's like they get so close to the truth they short circuit and post garbage as defense mechanism. it's fascinating behavior. sad but fascinating.
     
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    Bcz this is who the MAGA base are @Salvy. Low iq working class voters who are brainwashed by social media thinking they're part of some bigger movement. These folks are dumber than a bag of rocks
     
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    Why are y'all like this? Must be fun at parties...
     
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    No my brother, why are YOU like this?

    stop being a cuck for the most corrupt human. Do better.
     
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    Its just peak entertainment, gotta laugh sometimes... You probably wouldn't like fat J.D Vance memes either...
     
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    It's so interesting how everything is happening to enrichen the Trump family and everybody in the family claims innocence. The grift is on big time.

    Trump Jr.'s 'Amazon of guns' could make millions under new proposed firearm rule

    Donald Trump Jr. helped take an online retailer known as the “Amazon of guns” public last year. Now, GrabAGun, where the U.S. president's son is a shareholder and board member, could reap a windfall from a proposed rule change at Trump's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that would make it easier to ship guns directly to people's homes.

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/gover...s-under-new-proposed-firearm-rule-2026-07-02/

    Coincidences don't happen this often people. They invest, and boom, Trump proposes a new law or regulation, Trump awards the company a huge contract, Trump promotes that company at his fundraisers at his properties and on Social Media, or Trump makes a big announcement after they invest. I don't doubt for a second it was Trump's insiders who were placing those bet right before he made a war decision either.

    Keep your blinders on MAGA supporters. You do that well.
     
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    Don't know about you but I'm enjoying the low gas prices....

    [​IMG]
     
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    Your cult hero started a war on behalf of Israel then lost the war and then gave tens of billions of dollars to Iran to lower gas prices while getting nothing in return but status quo. You morons worship the biggest idiot in the world and history will not be kind to yall
     
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    LOL, he's loving those low gas prices now, which were cheaper under Biden. But hey, even if they eventually lower it won't make up for the record highs for beef, coffee, laptops and computers, and a 25% rise in home insurance costs the past two years. Remember when Trump promised cutting electric bills in half too? They've gone up. Oh, and that war in Ukraine he would end on day one. Trump's a con. He and his family are the ones pocketing billions. Those cult minded wear rose colored glasses and will praise the lying, grifting psycho forever.
     
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    Between the Qatari jet, the WH ballroom contract, a tungsten deal in Kazakhstan, and over a billion dollars in crypto income, recent reporting has laid out a pretty striking pattern of self-dealing in the Trump admin. Full breakdown below (sourced from CNN, WaPo, NYT, AP, and others), worth a read for the specifics on each one. And this is likely just what's surfaced so far; plenty more probably hasn't come to light yet.


    July 1, 2026 - by Heather Cox Richardson

    Today President Donald J. Trump took his first flight on the new Air Force One, a gift from Qatar. The Constitution prohibits presidents from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the consent of Congress, so Trump’s announcement he would accept the $400 million plane from a foreign country raised a bipartisan outcry.

    The Pentagon then stepped in to say it would accept the plane. So, officially Qatar gave the plane to the Pentagon, but a source told Aileen Graef of CNN they expect the plane, newly painted in red, white, and blue like Trump’s private jet, to leave the service of the United States when Trump leaves the White House, going to Trump’s presidential library.

    Trump told reporters he was “excited about the first flight. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. They just completed it, they made it appropriate for a president—that means the security and all the different bells and whistles they put on—very complex stuff. But it’s really quite something.”

    “Frankly,” he said, “we couldn’t build a plane like this because we wouldn’t be willing to spend the kind of money necessary. They spent top dollars.” As Marina Dunbar of The Guardian noted, the plane is a retrofitted Boeing 747-8, built in the United States.

    Yesterday Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O’Connell of the Washington Post reported that last summer, White House officials awarded a no-bid contract for $500 million for the construction of a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be. In turn, the company that got the contract, Clark Construction, told the White House it would award no-bid contracts to at least eleven subcontractors for services including demolition, fencing, excavation, and so on.

    To avoid requirements for competitive bidding, the White House said the ballroom was covered by the office of the Executive Residence, which is responsible for routine repairs, buying furniture, and paying entertainment expenses. A federal judge has rejected this same justification for the demolition of the East Wing in the first place, saying the president’s authority to make changes to the White House does not include knocking down one of its wings and building a ballroom in its place.

    At one point, Trump said officials from Clark Construction had offered to build his ballroom for free, but for months after he first knocked down the East Wing, he insisted that private donations would pay for the ballroom. On March 31, Trump told reporters: “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.”

    But on June 16, Blaskey and O’Connell reported that more than three weeks before Trump made that announcement, Clark had provided the White House an estimate of $600 million for the project, with more than half of it coming from taxpayers.

    On June 28, Paul Sonne and Eric Lipton of the New York Times reported on a deal from September 2025 in which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trump secured from the president of Kazakhstan access to one of the largest untapped reserves of tungsten in the world.

    An obscure U.S. company, Kaz Resources, won access to resources of a metal the U.S. needs for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Before the deal went through, officials from the Trump administration advanced applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal funding for the company.

    Then an investment firm partly owned by Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric took a 20% stake in a corporate entity related to the project, and the investment firm run by Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle, Cantor Fitzgerald, helped to raise $210 million for a related entity, likely pocketing millions in fees.

    The deal was signed on November 6.

    Sonne and Lipton used the Kazakhstan deal to illustrate the self-dealing of the Trumps and Lutnicks, identifying at least fourteen companies with ties to the Trumps and Lutnicks that are working with the federal government on mining deals for materials on which the U.S. depends. The administration has either provided or is considering providing more than $8.9 billion in taxpayer money to those companies.

    White House spokesperson Kush Desai denied any impropriety in the dealmaking, saying in a statement: “The only special interest guiding the Trump administration’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people. Securing and reshoring America’s critical supply chains has been a top priority for President Trump, and Secretary Lutnick along with the rest of the administration continue to take historic action to safeguard America’s national and economic security.”

    The Trumps have also done well over the past 18 months in the cryptocurrency business.

    Yesterday a federal filing showed that Trump took in about $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures last year. Bernard Condon of the Associated Press reports that Trump made more than $500 million from the World Liberty Financial venture with his sons and Zach Witkoff, who is the venture’s chief executive officer and the son of Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. Much of that money came when an investment fund associated with the leadership of the United Arab Emirates bought almost half of World Liberty Financial.

    Trump also made more than $600 million from meme coins stamped with his face.

    In office, Trump has pushed policies that help the cryptocurrency industry and avoid regulations.

    In her [citation needed] newsletter, financial journalist Molly White noted that “[e]ven the jaw-dropping $1.4 billion figure is only a partial view into Trump’s opaque crypto empire.” She points out that the phrase “value not readily ascertainable” shows up more than 100 times in yesterday’s filing.

    Donald Shaw of Sludge, an outlet dedicated to examining special interest spending in politics, reported today that the day before Trump paused his tariffs for 90 days, his investment accounts took advantage of the market lows caused by the tariffs to buy as much as $12.8 million worth of stocks. His announcement of the pause caused a huge spike in stock values, with the S&P jumping nearly 10%, one of the biggest gains in the history of that index. Trump neglected to report the transactions for almost a year past the required deadline, but the penalty for a late filing, Shaw notes, is only $200.

    Journalist White notes that Trump is “essentially day trading,” including in companies operating in sectors where “the Trump administration is actively focused on setting policy.” She notes that Trump owns between $12.5 million and $58 million in NVIDIA and between $9.5 million and $46.5 million in Amazon, both companies “whose fortunes rise and fall based on decisions made in the White House.”

    Yesterday’s filings also showed that Trump took out a loan for more than $50 million last year, but as Zach Everson of Public Citizen noted, we don’t know why he needed the money, how he used it, what assets he used as collateral, how much he borrowed, or when it’s due.

    White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said: “Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged—or will ever engage—in conflicts of interest…. All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”

    Using information from Reuters, economic analyst Steve Rattner graphed the gains and losses of the Trump family and investors in crypto ventures. The numbers show the Trumps taking about $2.3 billion in income since the beginning of Trump’s second presidency. The numbers show investors in those ventures losing about the same amount.

    Eric Lipton, Andrea Fuller, and David Yaffe-Bellany of the New York Times broke some of the cryptocurrency numbers down, noting that the Trump family structured its crypto ventures so Trump made money on the front end, taking hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees, for example. Then, when his coins plummeted in value, the investors who were left holding the bag suffered vast losses.

    Cryptocurrency expert Lee Reiners, who used to examine Federal Reserve Banks, told the reporters: “It is hard to wrap your head around that the president of the United States would engage in this level of self-enrichment at the expense of so many of his supporters. This is a president of the United States who has made more money off crypto since he took office than he made in any prior year in his entire business career.”

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    lol what.
    It’s still higher than when the moron took office in January 2025.
     
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