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Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad
- SilverElfin 5mo agoDon’t forget about the lifelong immunity from IRS audits
- jauntywundrkind 5mo agoPresident not just pardoning their own crimes, but their future crimes too. That's quite the move.
- FireBeyond 5mo agoAnd for their children, and their children's families.
- quantified 5mo agoAll, or just specific years? Anyway, a future AG can just say "agreement is over". No justice has blessed it, it's no more than a promise by this administration.
- SilverElfin 5mo agoIt’s all future years for the entire Trump family, by my understanding.
- quantified 5mo agoHow is that safe from being voided later on?
- whattheheckheck 5mo agoTrump crime family. Put your personal lawyers in charge as attorney general? Hello? Prison for such blatent corruption is so obvious
- quantified 5mo agoAnd Speaker of the House paving the way. Roy Cohn was a cancer.
- bayarearefugee 5mo agoAnother thing related to the Trump administration/family that only really makes sense if they don't expect to lose power in the future. Almost like the creeping fascism is a real concern.
- tim333 5mo agoIt's for returns submitted in the past.
- exceptione 5mo agoI posted a link about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205018
- edg5000 5mo agoIt's getting worse by the day it seems.
- frogperson 5mo agoIt will continue to get worse, much worse, until people are willing to talk about the answer outloud in public.
- noman-land 5mo agoAre you willing to start?
- happytoexplain 5mo agoSurely you see the irony of this comment.
- arjie 5mo agoWhat constrained the sum to less than $2 billion? It looks like he sued originally for $10 b. Considering he relatively controls both sides, what stops him from choosing an arbitrary amount?
- huhkerrf 5mo agoThe arbitrary amount is $1.776 billion. Like everything that Trump does, there's an extra level of gaudiness on top.
- ahartmetz 5mo agoDrain the other swamp, pump it into yours. Quack quack, suckers.
- cyanydeez 5mo agoThis frame it's his friends, as opposed to the people who fomented an insurrection and are now poised to complete a bloodless coup. This arn't friends.