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Johan's avatar

It is corruption dressed up as venture capital.

Another grift pipeline, siphoning money through family name and political access, proving once again that MAGA “entrepreneurship” is just kleptocracy in startup drag.

They keep pillaging and plundering the country for their own sick games.

Who is going to finally stop them?

—Johan

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Hector Lopez's avatar

Apparently nobody. Seems like everyone is too cowardly & scared of the treasonous rapist among many other fucked up thing’s…, like not only raping women & children but our country as well, pay to play, turning our back on our allies, ally himself to our mortal enemy, etc. etc. etc.

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SeekingReason's avatar

🎯

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Daniel Kunsman's avatar

We The People!

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Johan's avatar

The world is pathetic when it lines up to flatter a dictator. FIFA handing Trump awards, Switzerland showering him with gifts, governments bending over backwards to prove they have no values, only money and power.

These aren’t leaders, they’re courtiers, blowing smoke for a man who thrives on degradation. Every time they bow, they prove how hollow they are, how little humanity remains in their politics. It’s not strength, it’s servitude.

And my last piece, We Got Rich, Now What?, is a reminder of why we must think about what actually matters, because if we don’t, we’ll keep watching the world debase itself for spectacle and cash.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Switzerland earned tariff relief. If Trump plays dirty with illegal tariffs, other countries will fight back any way they can.

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Robyn Boyer's avatar

We will.

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Sue's avatar
Dec 7Edited

How long will it take our country to recover after they are stopped?

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Jim Carmichael's avatar

This is a stunning report, Rebecca and Noel! What no one seems to want to talk about is the possible future consequences of all this “illegal” profiteering and influence-peddling on Trump family liabilities. Are these deals actionable? Worthy of prison, or just a few hundred million fine and a slap on the wrist? The stench makes gilded age barons smell like Arpẽge by comparison.

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Annielle Michael's avatar

The hypocrisy is mind numbing. We heard Biden Crime Family and Hunter Biden ad nauseam in recent years, and now crickets regarding the Trump family’s self dealing.

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Adam's avatar

Suggested edit: Effing crickets!!!

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Jay Spencer's avatar

That would be inappropriate. Crickets lay eggs!

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Lor's avatar

Grotesque behavior by the adult children of this regime profiting from the our tax dollars— shameful and likely violates the emoluments clause. This behavior is unacceptable and perhaps violates our rights.

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Peter's avatar

Totally nothing corrupt going on here. This is likely the tip of the corrupt iceberg that is the bulk of the Pentagon budget. This one is obvious, it's a payoff to Trump via his cokehead son. But how many more contracts are payoffs to someone well connected, if not to Trump then to some governor, senator or member of the House? How many millions wasted on obsolete weapons that nobody wants or needs to keep the CEO of Lockheed, Grumman or Boing in yachts and vacation homes?

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Adam's avatar

Exactly. This is business as usual done twump style. Sloppily with no finesse which makes what they thought was hidden in plain sight much more than merely visible now to the naked eye.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Twump!

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Adam's avatar

Ok. Twump! Hahaha.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Witkoff and Trump should be charged with defrauding the American people.

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NanceeM's avatar

I'm sure the FBI and DOJ will get right on that!

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BTAM Master's avatar

Disgustingly brazen corruption...but not surprising. Look at the pattern of pardons...(not including the Jan 6 thugs and drug lord), they tend to be white collar fraudsters.

Thank you PI!

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Adam's avatar

The white collar fraudsters are bad enough but the brazen hypocrisy of the drug lord pardon beggars description. The individual ultimately responsible for blowing up supposed narco terrorists for possessing a mere boatload of dope pardons the kingpin who imported 500+ tons or so of dope (after our chief-law-maker pockets a hefty 'donation to the cause')!

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Teresa Baustian's avatar

The Pentagon runs a bank?

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Katy Bolger's avatar

With an annual budget of a trillion dollars in assets, some from your pocket, some from mine.

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Teresa Baustian's avatar

I just never heard before that they made loans.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

OK you sent me looking. The Pentagon has a loan program, its office is called U.S. Department of (War) Defense Office of Strategic Capital. It has a bunch of money for any companies making, or planning to make, war machines and need the capital to do so. It charges interest but has excellent flexible payback schedules.

I believe the description I just gave makes it ripe for an investigation...in these dark days and with the oodles of cash the Pentagon has and not to mention the corruptible Hogsbreath at the helm, one might imagine it is rife with dirty hands.

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Teresa Baustian's avatar

….and this is to a start-up with no record of producing a worthy product….. No real financial institution would have made this “loan.”

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Kathleen Dintaman's avatar

And, of course, no watchdogs.

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Adam's avatar
Dec 4Edited

But of course. Watch dogs breed corruption and corruption is a democrat hoax. A democrat con-job!

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Jay Spencer's avatar

Riiiight. Elon's DOGE "Fought corruption" by firing all the watchdogswho might have ferreted out HIS corruption, making it easier for MAGAts to blame all corruption on "Democrat hoaxes and con jobs!" Excellent projection, "Adam."

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SeekingReason's avatar

We are ALLOWING our futures to be negatively altered because of the crimes committed by the Deadly Seditionist-crime family, the administration and the entire RescumliCon party.

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Jay Spencer's avatar

Apparently so, if only a "virtual" bank. This may explain where some of the missing Trillion$ have gone.

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Pat McCann's avatar

The entire Trump Administration are just pigs at the trough and there is obviously no one prepared to stop them. Disgusting!

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Adam's avatar

They brought lots of special friends too! All manner of greedos, perverts, violators and enemies of the state.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Excuse the expression, but do the knuckle-dragging Magats know about this? If you explained it in simple words would they understand? Or, is it, in their peabrains, okay for the gander but not for the goose? This is pure unadulterated graft and corruption. It is not sugarcoated or done in the dark. While I check prices at the grocery store on things like pasta, DTJr. et al are stealing from the U.S. government and doing it through machines of war. So unbecoming, it is about as ugly as it gets. F them all. All of them.

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Adam's avatar
Dec 4Edited

If it ain't on Fox... it didn't happen and if it did actually happen to happen anyway, it's a democrat hoax like affordability. They just made up a new word no one ever heard of out of nowhere and called it affordabilty when they could have called it something else nicer. Kinder, ya know what I mean?

In fact, many people, many, many people are saying my name should be involved somehow and w're going to, we're going to strongly look into that. You know, the other day Vlad said I should add that to the wars I solved and make a new hat or a pocket rocket. Elon knows pocket rockets like nobodies business.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

And even though it was a perfect phone call to Vlad, his warm voice really tells me he loves me. I love him, too. And the big boy from Korea. I love that Chinese looking man running China too. But I especially love those dress-wearing men from over there in the desert area by Jared's new friends and future properties. They have so much money it really makes my heart melt. I love that man who was in my office the other day with bags of money. And I love my little pocket Mike Johnson, fits right here, right here inside my pocket.

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Adam's avatar

Vlad said he, he, he, sniffs, he loves me more than Jesus! ME!

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HM Haskins's avatar

Thank you for this perfect illustration of the corrupt Trump family. Ugh!

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Mike McCabe's avatar

The Scam Presidency

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Laura Stillman's avatar

Their grift is mammoth! The two errant sons are on the boards of hundreds of companies, many of which are receiving hefty grants from the government. Imagine that……

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Daniel Kunsman's avatar

We're going to need to build more prisons real soon!

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Adam's avatar
Dec 4Edited

And we will collectively need the testicular fortitude to put the right folks in those prisons this time!

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

The junior apple obviously hasn’t fallen far from the Queens real estate mob boss pretending to be president’s tree. He learned all his moves from daddy. Or maybe the better visual is to see him is as the worms in the apple and not the apple itself.

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Sandi R.'s avatar

Change the regime, lock them up and fine them into bankruptcy.

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