We now have a bunch of Trump appointed billionaires working for the government who will reap in so much money for themselves it will make Hunter's supposed cash as a civilian not even working for the government look like peanuts. I still can't fathom Trump butt kisser Kush running the FBI. That's shady as hell.
Imagine if biden fired the IG who was investigating fraud related to his admin.... The MAGATs have been screaming about how biden firing some IG in ukraine (that Republicans wanted fired) was the biggest crime of the century. Now the same shameless individuals are quiet @AroundTheWorld @Os Trigonum
Trump and Musk are so damn transparent. Having the power to make and accept bribes for policies is how they want to make their businesses and personal wealth boom like never before. It's happening as we speak. Making bribes legal again. President Donald Trump is set Monday to sign an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business. Is this a heil to the billionaires and wanna be oligarchs? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html
Not sure how they can get around not enforcing the law? Though then I wonder who would have standing to sue - I guess someone would have to prove they lost a project because the other person bribed someone? Pausing something like this seems so shady and really hard to defend Useless side note - I had a professor that jokingly wondered where you put bribes on the financial statement...
All you do is white wash trump and downplay him. The past 4 years you have claimed biden firing the ukraine IG was the crime of the century. Trump firing the inspector Generals who's auditing fraud in elons business? What a sad pathetic troll you are.
He is doing this so when his term is done, most of the folks who took or gave bribes will get off and trump wont have to pardon everyone on his staff LOL
I think it has a lot more to do with Trump being free to bribe and take bribes at home and abroad like some crooked Dictator/Authoritarian, to enrich himself and his family. He's put billionaires in his circle who all share the same vision. There is nothing good about doing whatever it takes to make more money, especially when people starving, dying, or being driven to working more for less is the cost of saving money for the rich. Then you have the scary part, where regs put to protect people's health are eliminated, and toxic spewing plants and businesses are contaminating the environment and places where people live. All this with the overwhelming amount of Americans in desperate need of affordable healthcare. It's sickening. Protections to protect people are being stripped away at a rapid pace. They are being eliminated, to make it easier to scam people, screw people over financially, take away their workers rights, and fire them if they don't like it. Musk and Trump types are too obsessed with their own fortunes and power to care. It really isn't about making America Great, but more about giving a select few the possibilities of becoming oligarchs.
@Space Ghost braindead trolls claimed Biden’s DOJ was somehow "corrupt." This what actual corruption looks like for you losers
Stewart is technically wrong. Inability to pass an audit isn't proof of any of those. It is proof of insufficient or incorrect accounting. That is concerning, but you have to dig deeper to know. Similarly, the ability to pass an audit doesn't mean there isn't waste, fraud, or abuse.
Also do you know any liberals or democrats who are against cutting the Pentagon budget? I dont? The issue is trump is asking for a 300 billion dollar increase to the Pentagon budget...while Elon musk is one of the biggest defense contractors who will get a large chunk of that funds. Instead hes slashing agencies that help feed poor kids in Africa and while giving the Pentagon 300 billion dollars
Here's another guy who stands a lot to gain if his nomination goes through. Donald Trump has reportedly chosen private equity billionaire Stephen Feinberg as deputy secretary of defense. If confirmed, Feinberg would effectively become the Pentagon’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the agency. As the co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm named after the three-headed dog guarding the gates of hell, Feinberg oversees more than $65 billion in assets, according to Pitchbook. The private equity firm’s portfolio includes Navistar Defense, which defrauded the U.S. Marines Corps to the tune of $50 million for inflated armored vehicle prices. Earlier this year, Cerberus bought out Transdigm, a hypersonics company that the Inspector General of the Department of Defense revealed was price-gouging, in one case to the tune of 9,400 percent in excess profit for a metal pin. Until it was bought out in 2020, the crown jewel in Cerberus’s defense portfolio was Dyncorps, which provided planes for drug wars in Central America, and trained U.S.-backed armies in Iraq, Liberia, and Afghanistan. Perhaps most alarmingly, a Cerberus subsidiary called Tier 1 Group trained four members of the Saudi hit squad team that murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. With the approval of the State Department, Tier 1 Group reportedly trained the Saudi nationals in marksmanship, countering attacks, surveillance, and close-quarters battle between 2014 and 2017, the years preceding Khashoggi’s murder. In 2017, Feinberg and Blackwater founder Erik Prince tried to pressure the Trump administration to rely on contractors instead of American troops in Afghanistan. Feinberg reportedly put more emphasis on giving the CIA full control over operations, where paramilitary units would be “subject to less oversight than the military” — a proposal that incidentally his companies stood to gain from. Even if Feinberg divests for his holdings, it’s impossible to divest from a baked-in contractor-first ideology. The deputy secretary of defense “needs skeptics at the highest levels of leadership — not individuals with interests in the financial decisions of an agency with a near trillion dollar budget,” explained Julia Gledhill, a research associate at the Stimson Center, in a written statement to RS. “The revolving door continues to spin for the arms industry." Jarrar invited lawmakers to take their pick for why Feinberg should be disqualified for the number two job at the Pentagon — “Whether it’s money in politics, relationships with foreign governments, gross violations of human rights, or training of mercenaries and killers, this nomination should be categorically rejected.” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/stephen-feinberg/
in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into lawthe Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. citizens and entities from bribing foreign government officials to benefit their business interests. Today, the 78-yr old convicted felo] signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americansaccused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to win or retain business in their countries.
Youre telling me a hedge fund manager with clear conflicts of interest will be 2nd in command at the pentagon who will over look procurement lol. What a ****ing joke. Does anything matter anymore ?
There are so many conflicts of interest with a lot of his picks that it's mind boggling. They are brazenly daring anyone to try and stop them, firing anyone and everyone who might investigate or raise alarms, and putting loyalists in charge of the agencies who are supposed to ensure criminals are charged for their crimes.
