Turns out the president is above the law, and can only be impeached, given the rare condition that the opposition party has a supermajority in Congress, of course!

They won't even let you stand outside a polling place and hand out water bottles to people waiting in line.

It's still illegal; it's just that nobody will enforce the law against the orange bastard. The motherfucker was literally convicted of 34 felonies and hasn't paid any fines or faced a minute of jail time, FFS.

Americans refuse to apply the law to trump for some reason

Edit: Y'all acting like he's been POTUS his whole life. Dude is a career conman-rapist-fraudster

This is what tips me over the edge, all in on maga now. I’m surely gonna collect the 5k from the dude famous for stiffing contractors and bankrupting casinos

That's the secret to Conservative power in America.

Step 1: Make everything illegal

Step 2: Accept bribes to overlook crimes of allies

Step 3: Punish the shit out of your opponents.

Congrats! America is now Russia, with better food and shittier fascists.

If no one prosecuted you for it, it might as well be.

It's very different. One is "I will give YOU money if you vote for me" and the other is "I will give EVERYONE money if I win". The main difference is that one is not discriminating against who people voted for. The first is buying votes, the second is a campaign similar to "I will retroactively lower taxes for this year if I win", which I don't think anyone would see as problematic but it's exactly the same outcome as the one you're finding problem with, i.e. give people money.

It's a stupid campaign because anyone with half a brain understand that he's not going to do it and that that money would have to come from someplace else, but it's still a campaign promise similar to any other promise politicians make to ask you to vote for them.

Everything is legal when everyone let you write the rules.

do you have supreme court immunity?

It's also legal to give someone money after the fact for a job well done, and it's definitely not a bribe.

Step 1: Have money.

Step 2: Rape children (and adults).

Step 3: Put an "R" next to your name.

Congrats, you are now immune from consequences.

The law only matters to us poor folks. It isn't applied to the rich.

Well he did make it so tha tnothing he does in office is illegal, even if it’s illegal.

It's hilarious that everyone here is assuming he's not just straight up lying about giving that money to everyone and not just the people who vote Republican.

They are very interested in state voter information.

No, it's not legal, but at this point there are no federal officials left who are willing to enforce the law when Republicans break it.

Also if you have sex with a minor is illegal but if you are the President then it's OK.

There is a difference between "I will pay you to vote for me" and "I will pay you if I win." The first is certainly illegal, the second should be. In some ways, the second statement reminds me of the phrase, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Sure, no direct order was given, but the priest still died.

I don't expect to see any response to this statement from law enforcement, just like there wasn't when Musk actually paid people to vote for the conservative judge.

They are two very different things.
In one case you're handing people real money on the street for their vote.
In the other your making a "campaign promise" that everyone knows isn't actually real.

There will never be a payout of 5 k ,from taco, all lies

Welcome to America

In many countries it is legal to promise a tax rebate when you are in office. Many cons (oops, I mean conservatives) use this as voting bait for people with no critical thinking skills, and then turn around and give their corporate masters and billionaires huge tax cuts that make those same voters loose critical services that makw them pay out of pocket.

In other words, "Heres $200 to vote for me so i can make your life way more expensive on a yearly basis through medical care, less regulation, less infrastructure repair".

This is the same grift, but more blatant and obviously something that would never get fulfilled, which is why the number is so big. Bigger numbers make critical thinking fail harder, especially when times are economically tough. It tends to get cons reelected even when they are not doing well in polls, speaking from the Canadian experience in this.

Laws are as good as they are enforced. Look at speeding in a car. If you don't get caught, if everyone else is doing it and the few cops around aren't bothering to pull anyone over, it's still illegal. Yet it doesn't matter.

Or more comparable, someone of high importance is caught speeding, but when the cop sees who it is they let them go with a "warning", i.e. do nothing. Still illegal, but okay for them to do apparently.

Yes it is illegal for you to do that, as it would be for Trump. But no, Trumps proposed 5k checks to all adult citizens, as I understand it, is legal. I'm pretty disappointed in the other answers. A few relevant points.

0. Remember the model for sending checks to folks: CARES. Both Biden and Trump have previously done this.
1. Congress can legally amend and pass laws. Note that the law that makes bribing for votes illegal is not in the constitution, so it requires only the usual legal action to amend it.
2. I note that the policy Trump proposed isn't discriminatory on who you vote for; your hypothetical does. (I suspect this is irrelevant for the legality, but certainly helps the optics.)

I hate the orange turd but your comparison is not 100% right. He'd gift 5000$ to everyone, not just who voted for him. I think that's still illegal tho

I mean, There's also the more direct approach if one wants to give out bribes in return for votes.. Remember this? Tell me more about how amazing and just the Western Democracy is.

Law means nothing in a coup