Trump Took $7.8 Million in Foreign Cash While in Office. He’d Do It Again.

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  1. Trump doesn’t zip his fly in the morning until someone proves it benefits him financially. The only thing surprising about this is that it isn’t larger.

  2. It’s now advisable to treat anyone and everyone who backs the Traitor as *persona non grata.*

    Cut all MAGAs from your life. You’ll be glad you did.

  3. What’s the point of the Constitution if violating it doesn’t have civil or criminal penalties?

  4. The evidence that he violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution is overwhelming.

    But there is no viable enforcement mechanism, so no consequences?

  5. >Trump 2024 – Cheap and easy

    My suggestion for his next Trump’s next campaign slogan

  6. Of course. When he was president he had full immunity from criminal prosecution and he felt entitled to take that money. Anybody else (Hunter?) it is grounds for incarceration. There will be dancing in the streets when this family goes away.

  7. The crook took money from his own fake charity. He’s not above taking foreign cash while in office.

  8. How about his son in law who he appointed to office under him taking 2 billion dollars from the Saudi government. I’m sure that was all on the up and up.

  9. >President Zelenskyy: I would like to tell you that I also have quite a few Ukrainian friends that live in the United States. Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park and I stayed at the Trump Tower. I will talk to them and I hope to see them again in the future.

    From Zelenskys phone call with Trump in 2019.

    Why would Zelensky mention that he stayed at Trump Tower? Because he knows the score. He knows who Trump is.

    If you want ole Donnie to support your resistance to Russia then you need to flatter him, praise his businesses, and imply that you may help him out ($$$) to grease the wheels.

    Republicans just decided that money going to Trump from foreign actors is fine because it doesn’t go directly into his bank account. It goes to Trump Tower or his hotels. Totally separate!!!

  10. He also changed US policy toward a Chinese Telecom after his daughter received patents in China……

  11. That’s probably nothing compared with what’s in numbered accounts. Seriously.

  12. I told my husband this man is a criminal. You can tell by looking at him the very first time I saw him start his run for president in 2016. I always thought he looked like a mafia boss and acted like one. Guess we were right!

  13. Kushner got 2 billion. Pretty sure we assume there’s a lot more money at play here

  14. Trump had the best grift of all time going. Why do think the fucker is trying everything to be president again ? It’s an American tragedy that this piece of shit was ever elected in the first place.

  15. The fact that the US government allowed Trump to keep his business after taking the Oval Office but forced Jimmy Carter to put his little peanut farm into a blind trust is something I can never figure out. And now all of our suspicions became reality, that Trump used the Office of the Presidency to accept bribery and earned 7.8 million, and if he won another term he will be even more corrupt than the first time.

  16. King quid pro quo.

    And dont tell me he did not get slice of jared the mute’s 2 billion.

  17. Nah god forbid there is a next time. He will burn us down while propping himself and his family up. 7.8 MM is the tip of the iceberg for the disaster of a human being.

  18. Yes, we knew that too.

    This is yet another thing the Republican Party just told us was perfectly normal, everybody is being hysterical, just look away.

    The Trump presidency was a four year crime and shit show. To which the entire conservasphere gleefully rushed to like a pack of pigs.

  19. >Trump Took $7.8 Million in Foreign Cash While in Office. He’d Do It Again.

    He’s probably doing it right now.

  20. He was just getting good at being bad when we pulled the plug on him – voted him out of office.

    If he’s given back to presidency, this country will never ever be the same. It will not be good.

  21. This does not come as a surprise to anyone does it? Wiki will need to get a new server to host and list all the crimes tRummp committed during his grift of the American people.

  22. If only there was something in the Constitution and its laws about this?

  23. Florida Fats has his sights set on treasury .. dictators being dicktators and all .. he’ll clean us out.

  24. He took a helluva lot more than that from the American taxpayer at Mar A Lago every weekend.

  25. Come on Supreme Court! grant Biden immunity to have him throughly investigated Trump.

  26. Wrong.

    He was shown to take at least $7.8 million and he would consider himself bulletproof and take significantly more if reelected.

  27. Do it again? I’m certain he’d be better at it, given another shot at the top.

  28. Roberta Kaplan just got a new target figure for the next E. Jean Carroll damages award.

  29. We should add the words “at least” to these headlines. The truth is that this is the indisputable, bare minimum, from looking at two years of his official records. We have no idea what he was given off the books. Unlike Biden, we have no idea how much his family members were given. And this doesn’t include Ivanka’s Chinese patents that were granted during the trade war, nor does it include $2 billion in Saudi “loans” to son-in-law.

  30. How much did he bilk the US taxpayer for his endless rallies and golf trips?

  31. Context: this only covers the two years of his presidency for which they could collect data. The actual number is much higher.

  32. $7.8 Million is Chump Change. Jared Kushner took 2 BILLION from Saudi Arabia, but didn’t get the check until after daddy-in-law left office!

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