Tomasky: Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done

[Nevilledog]

https://newrepublic.com/post/194420/trump-memecoin-dinner-corrupt-president

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https://archive.li/WHafP

Imagine that Joe Biden, just as he was assuming office, had started a new company with Hunter Biden and used his main social media account to recruit financial backers, then promised that the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him. Oh, and imagine that these investors were all kept secret from the public, so that we had no idea what kinds of possible conflicts of interest might arise.

Take a minute, close your eyes. Let yourself see Jim Jordan’s face go purple in apoplexy, hear the moral thunder spewing out of Jesse Watters’s mouth, feel the shock (which would be wholly justified) of the New York Times editorial board as it expressed disbelief that the man representing the purported values and standards of the United States of America before the world would begin to think it was remotely OK to do such a thing. The media would be able to speak of nothing else for days. Maybe weeks.

Yet this and more is what Donald Trump just did, and unless you follow the news quite closely, it’s possible you’ve not even heard about it. Or if you have, it was probably in passing, one of those second-tier, “this is kind of interesting” headlines. But it’s a lot more than that. As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy noted Wednesday: “This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.”

Trump announced this week that the top 220 buyers of his $Trump (strump, as in strumpet) meme coin between now and mid-May will be invited to an exclusive dinner on May 22 (“a night to remember”) at his golf club outside Washington, D.C. The Washington Post and other outlets have reported that in the days since the announcement, “buyers have poured tens of millions of dollars” into the coin; further, that the holders of 27 crypto wallets have acquired at least 100,000 coins apiece, “stakes worth about a million dollars each.” Holders of crypto wallets are anonymous, if they want to be, so the identities of these people (or businesses or countries or sovereign wealth funds or whatever they might be) are unknown and will presumably remain so until the big dinner or, who knows, maybe for all time.

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[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. I knew it !

was about the crypto scam !!!


Fuck the M$Media, who did nothing to alarm the public, the DOJ, The SEC and all the idiots who confirmed a pam Bondi to sweep it under the rug and the next AG should prosecute both Trump and Bondi for this crime, if we get a next AG !

[Ponietz]

5. It will take a Nuremberg style military tribunal

I’m reconsidering my opinion on capital punishment.

[Hekate]

24. The Nuremberg trials happened only because Germany declared war on the world -- and lost, bigly...

I have very serious doubts that the United States will ever put itself on trial in that fashion.

Beyond that, trump has survived not one but two impeachment trials, and the Supremes are singing his song regarding immunity. So, if trump thinks he is untouchable, he has good reason.

Sorry to be a killjoy.

[Ponietz]

31. You're right

But there’s no joy in hoping for a Nuremberg redux.

[BonnieJW]

34. American judges

Presided over the Nuremberg trials

[Ponietz]

36. ...and British, and French, and Soviet judges, too. The "winners".

[Hekate]

37. Of Germans

[OldBaldy1701E]

47. Telling the truth is not being a 'killjoy'. (n/t)

[JustAnotherGen]

45. We never put the Government of the CSA on trial

And we should have. Every single one should have hung - but America's demographics were different then.

We were different then and post WW2.

When the 92% says we are resting? We are resting up. When AmeriKKKa comes out on the other side of this?

We have to try something different to ensure that minority rule is squashed forever. Those spoiled little brats have it coming.

Not sure if you are familiar with Nina Simone's music. Mississippi Goddam great tune. Still relevant.

"But that's just the trouble (too slow)
Desegregation (too slow)
Mass participation (too slow)
Reunification (too slow)
Do things gradually (too slow)
But bring more tragedy (too slow)
Why don't you see it? Why don't you feel it?
I don't know, I don't know"

[Pinback]

2. Molly White's excellent "Citation Needed" newsletter has coverage of this:

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https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-82/

She is my #1 source re: all things crypto, particularly the rampant corruption associated with the “industry.”

[Nevilledog]

4. I follow her on Twitter.

She knows her stuff.

[FemDemERA]

18. Thanks for link!

Looks interesting, will check it out.

[kentuck]

3. He's in it to make money.

This is his last opportunity. He is going to grift and steal every penny he can get his hands on.

[Wounded Bear]

27. That's all he really cares about...nt

[slightlv]

29. Why? Im lost to understand

The mass accumulation of money. Once you have your needs met.. and your desires... what use is the rest of it? Just to stand on a mountain and yell I'm king of the hill? I know its about power, but even that I don't get. His mindset is so far different from mine i don't think I could understand if I lived to be 100. He doesn't give a crap about his kids, he's gonna be dead soon... gods willing! ... what's he gonna do... have them pile it in his coffin so he can take it to the grave with him?

[Marthe48]

39. His kids will write a check and

put it in the coffin

[slightlv]

44. And it will bounce at the heavenly teller's queue! LOL! n/t

[live love laugh]

6. I'm betting anonymous for all time...

[Marthe48]

40. I bet they won't get dinner

Let them eat cake!

[mwmisses4289]

7. Time for hackers to do their thing?

[Hekate]

26. Sadly, they are doing their thing and none of it's on our behalf. Elon's Flying Monkeys Squad...

…is too busy dismantling everything they get their hands on.

[wiggs]

8. according to scotus, 'tips' are not bribes. And bribes are free speech anyway. And even if illegal, he has

immunity because staying in power and making TSF happy is a 'core' function beneficial to the USA.

[Demovictory9]

9. Trump has done so many things that would have gym jordan turning purple, shouting

Drooling on his light blue shirt ifdine by a democrat

[Paladin]

10. trump, getting away with whatever the fuck he wants. As usual. (nt)

[Evolve Dammit]

23. The last administration had its chance and now we all will suffer. Because the sociopath walked every time. Why change?

[Blue Owl]

11. The Donald J. tRump Halls of Corruption

[erronis]

19. In a more perfect world, there would be a exhibit on the Washington Mall of his crimes.

[Hekate]

30. Could still do that, if We the People get together. During the BushCheney era there were rows of boots...

…signifying the dead soldiers. Can’t recall if they were on the actual Mall, though many things have been. You probably have to get a permit from the Park Service.

[Iamscrewed]

12. Criminals

Are going to do crime, especially when they are in control of almost everything. Constitutional crisis has been here for a while.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

13. It seems like that could also make one vulnerable to anyone wanting to do them harm...

...that can raise enough money to buy access. It seems like spy novel 101....

[Jit423]

14. Don't "imagine" anything! Just remember when Bill Clinton let a friend sleep in the Lincoln bedroom...for free..or not.

All hell broke lose from some of the same Congress critters still sitting on their fat butts in both Houses now. Or. remember when HRC was offered
$250K to speak at a Wall Street event. Even Bernie went crazy. And now this shit is advertised and we don't even know who is taking part and paying the money to Trump. To Trump, not the government. Our five male members of SCOTUS are worthless scum and not fit to hold the power they relinquished to Trump.

[Dr. T]

21. I'm sure Allito and Thomas are

board members on the Trump Mint board of directors.

They won't condemn it, but they might grade it, like the peanut galley on an episode of Let's Make A Deal.

[dchill]

15. Well, it IS Friday, after all.

[swong19104]

16. Can't the DNC fund some poor guy

with terminal illness to buy a whole bunch, then attend the dinner with an IED strapped on (well hidden, of course) and take out the whole compound? The person's family will be well taken care of.

Right, Frankie?

[Hekate]

32. Please don't do this kind of speculation. Agent Mike may be retired, but has been replaced by a squad.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. this is nothing new

He has been doing this since the day he was elected in November of 2016 starting with massive donations to his Inauguration events.......
He kicked it into warp drive in November of 2024...........donations go to his "personal" PAC, which he totally owns and controls, then all the countless "dinners" at Mar-a-Lago, for a hundred thousand a plate.......etc etc etc

Even if he does something illegal, who is going to prosecute? He literally owns and operates the DOJ, FBI, USSC........

[WhiteTara]

20. I'll laugh when they all take a bath and he takes

their money and gives them nothing but dried up hamberders and cold stale fries.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. "A Night to Remember" referred to the sinking of the Titanic. Maybe this one will sink 220 MAGAts. nt

[malaise]

25. K & R

Must read

[Martin68]

28. Indeed. High crimes and misdemeanors in my book.

[SharonAnn]

33. And "Tricky Dick" Nixon was thought to be corrupt! How far we have fallen!

[ShazzieB]

43. No kidding.

Nixon was such an amateur compared to Schlump. We had NO freaking idea.

[UTUSN]

35. K&R

[Martin Eden]

38. Insider trading with foreknowledge of tariff flips might be more corrupt

The corruption of this administration is like the Gish Gallop of lies it spews -- flood the zone so much that it's impossible to deal with every incident.

Eventually, it becomes normalized.

[PCIntern]

41. "A Night To Remember" was the name of the film

about the sinking of the Titanic, with Kenneth More IIRC.

[ThoughtCriminal]

42. Finding something that is the most corrupt thing Trump has done

Hard to come up with a suitable comparison.

Finding the town drunk of Los Angeles.
Finding the worst smelling pile of shit.

[Brainfodder]

46. Not selling citizenship directly for 5M?

Free classifieds available in bathrooms?