No One on Team Trump Will Explain That $130 Million “Gift” to Military

https://newrepublic.com/post/202250/trump-friend-130-million-gift-military

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  1. > Is this donation to the military coming with strings attached for government policy? Or is it benefiting the president’s personal interests in some way? Thanks to a lack of transparency, no one outside of the president’s inner circle has a clue.

  2. the US military employs 2.1 million people, this is 61$ each.

  4. Has any reputable journalist looked behind the curtain on this? At best, it sounds like Trump making up numbers again. There are 1.32 million active duty service members in this country. A single payroll of $130 million??? The “math ain’t mathin’” as they say.

    Edit: math

  5. So now we’re a country of Blanche DuBois who are relegated to relying “on the kindness of strangers”? What in the actual F is happening here?

  6. Now we’re privatizing the military?

    Americans should be dragging their elected officials into the streets, and tarring and feathering them. Instead, they have largely bought into some flavor of collective delusion or another.

    The wolves are running the chicken coop, people. This will not end well.

  7. My bet is that there is no donation. The Trump administration is illegally moving money around in the Dept of Treasury.

  9. That money wasn’t gifted or donated. Someone ~~paid that bribe~~ gave that money in exchange for a favor.

    Let’s see how this plays out.

  10. When American citizens are not allowed to know who is paying American soldiers, we’ve crossed a real line.

  11. “Bribe”. Romans who were thinking of deposing an emperor who frequently pay off the Praetorians.

  12. This is fall of the Roman republic shit. The rich are so wealthy they can support the military without a tax base. They don’t need us anymore.

  13. Elon Musk just moved 130 million in crypto … Mystery solved.

  14. Likely Musk and SpaceX

    As per the on-chain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, a SpaceX-linked crypto wallet transferred 1,215 BTC worth $130 million on Oct. 24.

  15. I guess the US Army is now some anonymous oligarch’s private army now. FTS.

  16. They keep saying, “Most transparent president ever”! I don’t think they know what that word means.

  17. Explicitly illegal, the AntiDeficiencyAct specifically forbids private funds for federal employees

  18. We gave 40 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina. Why the hell do we need $130million gift? Maybe don’t give billions to foreign countries and we’ll have enough to feed the troops. What a scumbag.

  19. the funny part, is that as far as the cost of running the american military is concerned, it’s practically an inconsequential amount of money. It covers like 4 hours of cost.

    it’s just a way to launder $130M, from whoever is trying to bribe Ol’ Yam Tits.

  20. There is a bigger problem with this than many people realize. WE, The People, employ the military. Our taxes pay their salaries. They are loyal to–or supposed to be loyal to–the American tax payers and no one else. So who the *fuck* is trying to pay them besides us?

  21. Google says there are 1.3 active military personnel. Isn’t that like $100 per person or am I bad at math?

  22. It’s been a while since I worked I the finance office of a federal agency. That said, my recollection is that an agency can spend money only if it’s properly appropriated by Congress, regardless of the source. Moreover, “found money” like this sketchy donation must also be properly accounted into the agency revenues. Unless I’m wrong, simply “finding” money doesn’t give an agency authority to spend it, absent a congressional appropriation.

    Of course, my time as a fed was back during the quaint “rule of law” era.

  23. Anyone who knows anything about the Fall of the Roman Republic knows that a big factor was that the soldiers stopped looking to the state for pay and started to look towards their generals to personally guarantee their paychecks. This made the soldiers loyal to their commanding officers, rather than the legislative body in Rome.

  24. Oligarch’s paying off the military. If this keeps up , where do you think their allegiance will be? This is bullshit and needs to end. Repubs need to be prosecuted.

  25. It was most likely Elon Musk. SpaceX just happened to sell $130 million in bitcoin right before this was announced.

    Not sure why, it’s not even a fraction of the militaries monthly wage cost. Unless Trump only wants his loyalists paid, y’know the sort of stuff somebody does before they try a military coup.

  26. Well he did pardon crypto billionaire and money-launderer Changpeng Zhao yesterday

  27. Who is donating? Are foreign nations now paying our military directly?

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