For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office.
Harry Truman refused to lend his name to any business, even in retirement. Richard Nixon so feared a brother might profit off their ties, he had his phone tapped. And George W. Bush dumped his individual stock holdings before taking office.
Donald Trump is taking a different approach.
The family real estate business is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its founding a century ago, each deal potentially shaping everything from tariffs to military aid.
Led by Eric, and his brother, Donald Jr., the family business has expanded into cryptocurrencies with ventures that brought in billions of dollars but raised questions about whether some big investors received favorable treatment in return.
Quit normalizing Trump’s bullshit.
When we take this country back, the Trumps are ALL going to prison, and the entire Trump fortune will be confiscated under civil forfeiture laws. It will also be illegal to name anything after Trump.
This should be a campaign promise.
#takeamericaback
Damn Skippy. I’m waiting to support the candidate who explicitly states that they understand that America cannot continue into a positive future as long as MAGA is poisoning our governmental system.
The first one who says that crushing and purging MAGA will be their first priority, is my candidate.
Future?
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the plan is for the trump family to rule us for decades.
Man, yet another thing on the pile of things easily avoidable by FUCKING VOTING.
Well, Kamala cackled and there was the genocide, so I so tots had to stay home and/or vote for a bullshit party. Or at least do so much bitching about the Democratic Party that I convinced others to take that course of action!
And I don’t feel the least bit sorry for it, because I’m Morally Superior! Toodles!
–More than a few conversations I’ve had with a few maximalist contrarians. Some of it IRL, unfortunately.
If every moral abstainer/third party voter had voted for Kamala in 2024, Trump would still be President. There simply weren’t enough of them to matter.
Math is a lie by Russia to disprove that unpopular candidates lose popularity contests.
Wait, the dude profiting off the office may inspire others to profit off the office?
Fucking unbelievable.
We need to elect someone who, among other critical traits, is comfortable with approving bills to limit their own power and the power of their successors.
I don’t believe that will actually be possible.
More likely will be a congressional supermajority forcing through such bills. At any rate there are already laws supposed to stop many of these grifts, but they are not enforced.
If an individual person can limit their own power, the next person will be able to strip those limitations just as easilly.
What we need is more direct democracy instead of just relying on representatives to do the right thing.
I’d like to see the ability to recall a sitting president added. Waiting for congress to step in is getting ridiculous.
And we should be able to directly pass laws, bypassing all branches of the government (including the Supreme Court).
That is fucking dangerous
So is entrusting all power to representatives, who, as we’ve seen many times over, inevitably become corrupt and/or drunk with power.
Current lawlessness allows potential future lawlessness…
Fucking morons…
It should “open the door” to all of these motherfuckers spending the rest of their lives in prison, FFS.
Or it could open the door to civil forfeiture of their crime money, with enough fines, penalties, and jail time to wipe the out for life. I like my way better.
I’ve been fanning the flames of that hope for a while now. If they can seize the money in your wallet and charge it eith a crime, they sure as hell can do the same to thrit crime money.
The problem (for now) is that those responsible for bringing charges are unwilling to set that precedent.
I’ve put my Dem candidates on notice - they get one more vote. If they don’t get this dealt with (as much as they can given they won’t have the White House) they needn’t bother asking again; the answer will be fuck off you’re worthless.
Enforcement of the emoluments clause is all it takes. Enforcement is what’s failing in the US.
You need to get the sycophants out of congress first. Theyre all intentionally complicit. Ds and Rs.
Every American who agrees with you needs to VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS at a minimum, or you’ll continue to see the same incumbents in the generals. Bonus: not as many people vote in the primaries so your vote “counts” even more.
And if you’re in a deep red state, I encourage voting in the Republican primary with the goal of harm reduction. Plus, you could LARP as an anthropomorphic version of a QVC July 4th surplus blowout sale, in order to blend in.
The existing system is designed to make that as difficult as possible. Elections are on a weekday, and you have to register months in advance often. They want to make you have your birth certificate a passport now too. This is an uphill battle and I dont blame anyone that finds in incomprehensible.
Eventually the chickens come home to roost. If you beat people down enough they will revolt. The benefit of keeping a minimum wage job starts to seem irrelevant if you cant pay your bills either way.
Yea. It seems wild the more I think about it that either party can be the same as the president. It’s become clear that people on Congress think they work FOR the president when one of their duties is explicitly checking and opposing the president.
Yeah, thanks for the news flash… I kinda got that impression when they were advertising canned beans from the oval office.
I’ve not purchased a single goya product since that event.
Same!
Never again let Republican pretend to give a shit about family corruption.
Just more projection… It’s almost boring how it’s always fucking projection every time.
It frustrates the hell out of me that our mainstream journalists (who are actually able to interview politicians on both sides of the aisle) never ask the Republican congressmen how they feel about Trump’s blatant corruption. Why have they not asked about UAE “investing” $100s of millions in the Trump shitcoin company, and Trump immediately authorizing the sale of super high tech chips to them, which we’ve known for years would be immediately sold to China… which in fact did occur.
They’re terrified of losing access
