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"No president has ever used his office to rack up anything close to the estimated $5B Trump has hauled in for himself, selling everything from tacky gold sneakers to crypto. He has mastered the art of trading on access & enticing foreigners to pony up big bucks (and even an airplane). The most pro-corruption president in history also has stopped enforcement of foreign corruption, crypto fraud and other white collar crimes."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #grift #corruption
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-c92

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"In 2017, during his first term, Trump described Qatar as 'a funder of terrorism at a very high level.' Since the gift of the plane, however, Trump’s posture toward Qatar has changed dramatically."

Then the gift of an airplane, and now the plans for a Qatar military training camp in Idaho….

#Trump #grift #corruption #Qatar
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #grift #corruption
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-c92

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"These days crypto derives its value largely from the support of politicians and government officials — in particular, officials who can be bribed. As a result, at this point crypto is largely a Trump trade. And crypto fell because the backlash against the potential trade war threatened to weaken Trump politically."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #crypto #corruption
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-crypto-became-a-trump-trade

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"Why did Trump’s threat of all-out trade war with China cause crypto prices to plunge? Not because the economic damage from such a war would reduce the use of crypto, because crypto basically doesn’t have any legitimate uses. But an intensified trade war, especially a trade war America would almost surely lose, would drive Trump’s public support into an even deeper hole."

#Trump #crypto #corruption
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"And this would reduce the ability of history’s most corrupt administration to keep showering favors on the industry that made Trump rich."

#Trump #crypto #corruption
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