Why America’s plutocrats are lining up to pay Trump’s legal bills: It’ simple: Keeping Trump out of jail is cheaper than paying their fair share

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1. A small bit from the commentary:

   > With his campaign and associated Super PACs facing a cash crunch after spending more than $100 million (and counting) on legal bills, the former president and his team have become increasingly focused on courting the very same big donors that Trump once scorned. Even more humiliating, the former president has reportedly started working the phones for “hours at a time” and blocking out entire days to make “personalized” pitches to potential financial backers, including many of his fellow billionaires. The candidate who once mocked his opponents for soliciting money from wealthy donors has thus become the pandering politician who he railed against eight years ago. Gone is the swaggering, self-funding billionaire telling donors to shove it; in his place comes an embattled politician who is low on cash and anxious to charm his plutocratic peers.

2. It’s ridiculous knowing

3. Fuck trump, and his “plutocrats”…

4. Tax these parasites. Tax them hard

5. So what Trump is saying he is now bought and owned by corporate billionaires?

6. Hopefully they’ll get the opportunity to pay both.

7. Here’s a radical take: Maybe, just maybe, there’s more important things in life than adding a few hundred million dollars when you already have more money than you can spend in 50 lifetimes. Unbridled greed is a mental illness

8. I imagine that the only reason why he hates mooching off of rich people is because they don’t need his approval like poor people feel they need… so when he lies straight to their faces, they are not obliged to smile and swallow it in the hopes of getting a bump. He can’t bully people with more money than him.

9. Won’t work. Despite the polls, you’re about to see the biggest loss in the history of the gop, and it’ll be glorious.

10. So was lobbying for Citizens United and tax cuts. The expense was way less than the gain.

11. They are few in number, with only one vote.

12. Are they really “lining up”? Trump going around begging super rich people for money is very different from those same people proactively seeking out Trump to hand him cash, IMO.

13. “Keeping Trump out of jail is cheaper than paying their fair share”

    How fucking sad is that?

14. You really think Biden pays his fair share? Obama? Nancy “Stock Market” Pelosi?? Etc. etc. etc.

15. This is trumps secret power. He’s perversely exposed the game they all play. From Epstein to Wall Street. It’s the big ‘unspoken’ here. 

16. Wait until they find out what Putin did to Russia’s plutocrats. They’ll have half their wealth taken if they install a dictator here.

17. Is that why the Truth Social stock is tanking? It would be cheaper for them to pay a bit more in taxes than to keep his businesses afloat?

18. Several countries in Asia, as evidenced by recent events, execute their corrupt billionaires. Whereas our legal system is incapable of doing anything when our courts have decided that bribery (“lobbying”) is legal.

19. Clarence Thomas would probably be cheaper to buy.

20. >This conflict between Musk and Biden reflects a broader trend. The more the Biden administration has advanced a populist economic agenda that bolsters the labor movement and confronts monopolistic corporations, the more critical billionaires and corporate CEOs like Musk have become of the president. “The simplest and easiest explanation for this [billionaire] blowback,” notes Stone, is the “barely concealed fear that a majority might be coming for their wealth.” This was clear after Biden put forward a plan to increase corporate taxes and create a minimum tax for anyone worth more than $100 million during his State of the Union address last month, which immediately drew the ire of billionaires crying “socialism.”

    So Biden worries the billionaire *so much* they’d rather line themselves up behind a twice impeached four times indicted rapist who has lied about everything and is in Putin’s pockets. Tax the fucking lot to the max.

21. But any Republican would happily cut their taxes to zero. Why trump?

22. You can still be a convicted felon and not serve one day in jail, but in Trump’s case of being indicted in four crimes his chances are good he will spend some time in jail when he is convicted of one of them if not more than one.

    The upcoming trial that starts Monday with no doubt if Trump is found guilty and will spend some time in prison since he’s been antagonizing the judge and his family. If Trump doesn’t behave in the court, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s thrown in jail for his behavior or antagonizing the judge, his family, or the court personnel at the days end in court.

23. Surely the leopards will never come for their faces

24. Hopefully they pay and Trump is not elected so that they are just out the money. All of their names should be put on a list and then the DOJ should look into their business

25. “Both parties are the same”. 

26. This…

27. They should do commercials with old Trumps campaign promises etc compared to excerpts from now (eg never being owned by billionaire donors to begging them for cash)

28. The billionaires don’t want to pay ANYTHING. They’re not at risk of anything close to their fair share with all the legal loopholes and tax dodges they exploit.

    They simply don’t want to pay anything — it becomes a pure psychotic need to be God, to not pay ANYTHING.

    Also, you need to understand the depravity of this class. Making more doesn’t even make them happy anymore — they need everyone else to be nearly destitute around them, on their knees, deferential, begging for scraps.

    The billionaires hate people, they hate people with any freedom and dignity, enjoying any public space or public good.

    The billionaires don’t care about trump or MAGA, they want endgame. They want democracy ended, forever. They’ll figure out how to manage any further scenarios, but they want it ended, and this is their best chance.

29. If he goes to jail, the GOP is toast.

30. Trump wants to tax you into oblivion to pay for the rich man’s lunches. A vote for Trump is lunacy for literally being a treasonous piece of dog shit that needs to die. But if you leave all of that aside: he wants to be your king and he wants to keep the rich your noble overlords. We will see a continued decrease in American democracy.