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Sharon Otstot's avatar

The layering and transferring of funds reminds me of the dark money situation in elections. When the Dems take over in November, we need to revamp the FEC and pass laws over veto to stop big money from buying our elections.

Carole's avatar

Where’s the 8 BILLION in Venezuelan oil @he” has taken from there? Where is their president and wife? Are we boarding them forever? Where are they??

Sharon Otstot's avatar

I don't know about the Venezuela oil. Do you want dark money out of elections?

Ed Guerrant's avatar

I’m guessing Carole wants both.

Sharon Otstot's avatar

I also want 1) abolition of the electoral college, 2) universal health care, 3) a path to citizenship. I could add expansion and safeguards re: SCOTUS, but I don't want to make my list too long. :-)

33RR's avatar

It’s quite obvious that almost all the donations went into Deranged Don’s pockets. The Freeedom 250 fair was a cheap-ass dump that was slapped together by accomplices of the royal orange crime family with minimal planning and low budget.

Julie Lawson's avatar

Intentional I am sure. *sigh

jill_uss's avatar

This fraud is just another scam that was be investigated.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

He's lined his pockets again with unintentional taxpayers' money. Again. He's all about the gift.

Kathe Kilmer's avatar

The man is a genius grifter

33RR's avatar

Maybe not the genius part. Deplorable Don has an army of corrupt accomplices and sleazy lawyers to do the thinking for him.

Ed Guerrant's avatar

But he is very cunning.

Pete Salant's avatar

David, do you agree that the Constitution needs to be amended to allow the party NOT currently in power in Congress to have equal voting footing with the majority? It seems as if there’s absolutely nothing we can do to stop this guy and his angry minions from further dividing us.

Ed Guerrant's avatar

Huh? I prefer majority rule with meaningful minority rights to effectively weigh in on issues.

Pete Salant's avatar

That could work too, Ed.

David Clark's avatar

By this point in time everyone should know that if Trump can he is going to F**k them and if they buy into after all we've been through with that P0S, they deserve what they got. I'm sick and having to worry about people too stupid to be willing ot simply face the facts, they were wrong about Trump. It happens.

Marlene Lewis's avatar

Typical trump. With the repuglicans in control any investigation will be delayed, ignored, and result in no consequences for the grifter-in-chief.

LynseyFS's avatar

DonOLD The ConOLD 🫤

Sharon Hufnagel's avatar

Grifter, Clown, Scammer, Swindler…

Ed Guerrant's avatar

“… the donors may not have gotten it.” That sleight of hand is the essence of a bait and switch con.

“The America 250 confusion raises bigger questions than just bad branding

When two nearly identical organizations solicit donations at the same time, transparency matters. A new congressional report argues donors may not have gotten it.“

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Two nearly identical “America 250” money buckets, one congressionally chartered and one Trump-flavored, is exactly the kind of patriotic shell game this crowd treats as a business model. If donors thought they were funding the official national anniversary commission but got routed into a White House-backed vanity project, that is not branding confusion. That is the grift wearing a powdered wig and humming “Yankee Doodle.” Nothing says celebrating 250 years of democracy like possibly misleading people about where their money went, then wondering why the fireworks had more smoke than public enthusiasm.

ElaineD's avatar

I can not BELIEVE all this shit he is getting away with! I really really wish someone could explain to me HOW this being allowed to continue!!!

It's abso-fuck'n-lutely abhorrent the crimes he has committed, and NObody is stopping it!!!

I'm Canadian, and it burns my butt all the same. I truly feel so sorry for all the U.S. citizens who are not MAGA, who have to suffer this insult of a president, and the so-called leaders of the country allowing to continue.

David W. Sutton's avatar

I would expect to find Trump and his co-conspirators in court and then jail, but even I know that is a pipe-dream due to enabling Republicans in Congress, corrupt Supreme Court, and compromised corporate mainstream media. Disgraceful!

Ed Guerrant's avatar

Classic bait and switch move.