A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.

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[–] 99 points 1 year ago (12 children)

That was his only reason to get into the White House.

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  • [–] 106 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Well, also protection from prosecution.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Are we still sold on the theory that a billionaire ex-President was finally going to get his come-uppence via a state court campaign finance law conviction, when the judge deliberately dragged out the sentencing until after the polls closed?

    Or are we holding out on Kamala Harris being tougher on Trump than Clinton was on Reagan or Bush was on Clinton or Obama was on Bush or Trump was on Obama/Hillary or Biden was on Trump 41?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The special counsel had finally moved forward with prosecuting right before the election. There was going to be a federal trial. That all got dropped when he won.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump's been doing crimes since the 1980s and skated every time. You are deluding yourself if you believe a special counsel was going to finally do its job, the day after Trump returned to political irrelevance.

    Not when everyone from Guliani to Comey to Garland had dragged their heels for 40 years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The thing is, we don't know. The evidence was clear as day.

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  • The thing is, we don't know. The evidence was clear as day.

    Fixed that for you. The fact that it's so obvious and egregious, yet they STILL dragged it out until it was too late makes it clear that the fundamentally corrupt US "justice" and political systems would never have reined him in, even if he HADN'T managed to con his way back to the white house.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well, also protection from prosecution punishment.

    He was successfully convicted. He didn't even get a slap on the wrist. At best, he got a paper cut from the judge throwing the sentencing papers at him.

    He got zero jail or prison time.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Speaking of which, whatever happened with that judge who threatened consequences if Trump continued to ignore his orders? Why isn't Trump in jail yet? Dude's a fucking judge; quit fucking around and arrest his ass already.

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  • [–] 121 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    That's $100 stolen from every single American in the country

    From every kid, from every grandma, from every person in hospital

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  • [+] -35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Okay, but consider that 20% of those children and grandparents and hospitalized people may have voted for him. So actually its good that the country is getting looted, because a plutocrat enriching himself off the deluded and uneducated plebs is Karmic Justice.

    Now the Liberal Party can kick back its heels and announce "You stupid idiots, you wouldn't be suffering if you'd supported us." And they'll win in a landslide and take over the mechanisms for self-enrichment and brag about how they triumphed over fascism. Or maybe they won't win, at which point, they can justify the misery of their constituents for another two years.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    they piled downvotes on him because they knew he was right. because this is exactly how the DNC has been operating and we literally saw it happen.

    stop ride-or-dieing for 🏳️‍🌈soft fascism🏳️‍🌈 they'll drop your progressive movements the second that they have power to actually change or protect anyone

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    No, the down votes are because

    1. MAGA voters will not have some sudden, simultaneous epiphany and correctly attribute their suffering (in fact, they will never learn).

    2. Democrats might not have another go at it if they lose in 2026 (if elections even happen according to schedule), so inaction is inexcusable.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does that count the $2 billion that Jared got from the Saudis? I feel like 3.4 billion is very underestimated.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Check the other article - it doesn't count all the crypto holdings Trump has that are worth over 11 billion or there abouts. post link:https://lemmy.world/post/34308185

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That article cited like 15.9 billion including cryptocurrency. I am sure it is even more than this.

    Why are criminals running our country again...

    There are no rules keeping a serial pedophile, rapist, fraudster, bankrupter from becoming President?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    There are plenty of rules, it's just that half of the elected officials are traitors. He should've been ousted with the first impeachment but half of the country yearns for fascism, or at least they think they do until the boot is on their neck. I can only hope I live long enough to see Rafael Cruz struggling to breathe with a boot down his throat, wondering if he'd have escaped it if only he'd licked it harder.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fuck, he really is winning

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And no one will see the inside of a prison cell for this.

    Hey, guys, feeling great yet? I mean from my point of view of looking from the outside in then you don't look that great. Looks like a filthy paedo and his family are taking you all for a bunch of idiots and you're doing fuck all about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    America gaslit itself by how badass they are in movies that they don't realise that they get cucked by an obese pedophile who can't read.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Many of us are well aware of this situation and whats being done to us.... Im just trying to keep food on the table for my kids. I don't know of anything I can do to fix the problem... We didnt make the system, we are stuck in it.

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    I think the elite will cause America to suffer a Greater Depression, and makes all these millions, billions, and even trillions, mean nothing. A big rig filled only with $100 bills would be worth less than the vehicle itself.

    Americans will illegally migrate to Mexico, because they can work the farms for bread and a roof, not dollars.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm guessing that the collapse of USD will probably be the final push towards American Balkanization. Probably because the states will have to effectively discontinue the usage of USD for purely economic purposes, while the feds will continue issueing USD for workers until they all effectively leave.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That is more or less my guess, too. We will likely see CaliBux, Monero, Euros, and so forth all jockeying to become the next big thing in America. My guess is that the east coast in particular would adopt the Euro, if only for the stronger connection to the EU's commerce bloc.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah it'll vary by region and the nature of the local economy, for example I wouldn't be surprised if some areas devolve to barter and trade but eventually start trading in precious metals. Regardless I suspect that for the most part the only uniting thing is that digital currency that is to say non physical money will probably fall out of favor to some degree, for pretty much the same reason folks back during the great depression continued to stuff their mattress with dollars that being the banks are probably going to shit the bed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think that privacy coin might actually take off - up until recent times, the US wasn't likely to fall apart. There wasn't a need for a digital currency that couldn't be controlled by government. Vaccines, hormones, and NSFW bans would all contribute towards legitimization, doubly so if food or a new Underground Railroad comes into play.

    But anyhow, we live in interesting times. I think BOTH of our positions about digital and non-digital currency would be true. I can see canned food being the #1 physical currency, since it is non-perishable food.

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  • Note I am factoring in as much the secondary effects of such a scenario, namely some level of trade collapse. Crypto of all types requires a certain level of technology that may be nonviable in a lot of places due to people not being able to get the tech or being unwilling to use it for such a purpose, even maintaining the required Internet infrastructure would be effectively impossible. A little ticket entitling someone to a pound of ground beef issued by a state who is holding things together though requires at most a printing press with a hole puncher to show used ones.

    Currency is a complex thing but one of the few uniting factors for it is ease of use and ease of production. Ingots were used in the bronze age because every blacksmith needed them, coins were used in Europe for centuries because gold was a useful liquid asset that was hard to fabricate, paper money started as IOU tickets that could be exchanged for coin, and postage stamps could be used in lou of cash. Crypto almost as a baseline can't fill the niche as required, unless you backed it similar to the previously state food stamps but at that point just use paper.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lol he's fucking almost 90 like come on dude what the fuck are you even going to do with the shit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Following in Putin's footsteps. The filthy rich should have taken note:

    “After Khodorkovsky’s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin’s answer was, “50%” He wasn’t saying 50% for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50% for Vladimir Putin personally.”

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Like this old dodard thinks he's gonna take the money with him somehow.

    Money doesn't have an exchange rate in hell, pedo.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    First thing we do after the purge is nationalize every asset owned by Trump, his family, and co-conspirators, then we divy up checks for all citizens, and put the rest aside for all the lawsuits the country will have to pay out because of Trump.

    If we can keep Trump alive, it would be fun to remove as much of his skin as we can while still keeping him alive, then force him to do shitty manual labor until he dies. In his last agonizing Moments we can give him a bath in brake fluid and rock salt.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh yay, slavery and torture for our enemies, that will fix everything.

    Ehrm. That’s reactionary, not revolutionary. Not even funny, really.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Good luck controlling the population if they ever get their hands on the dude. I’ve never seen these levels of rage from American citizens about anyone before. There can easily be a point where he’s not safe anywhere.

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