The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.

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      Yep Focus the outrage on something super ridiculous. So the more realistic but corrupt thing slips through.

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        Yes because this isn’t corrupt. Make billions well president and make it illegal to audit your family.

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    I guess it’ll be null and void if his family is executed if there’s a french style revolution. Did y’all see Ivanka talk about how she impulse bought a fucking private island as a fixer-upper? To manifest her tangible spiritualism or some shit?

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    If they’ve done nothing wrong, why are they so afraid of audits? And haven’t they been using the excuse of audits to refuse disclosing their tax returns? Don’t they realize how guilty this makes them look?

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      Americans are complacent. He is literally doing all this in the open and well some is illegal. It doesn’t matter cause no one is enforcing anything.

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      Bro, they don’t give a flying fuck what the optics look like. They are blatantly doing corruption right in front of everyone’s faces. His base and most GOP, especially MAGA GOP eat it right up because it’s “owning the libs”

      Republican voters are fucking stupid weird like that, so long as other people suffer more they’ll take some suffering too. If a thing they hate is getting taken care of (ie. Immigrants [brown people]) they’ll gladly turn a blind eye to corruption and hell, even pedophilia apparently… fucking weirdos.

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    Trump never does anything, not even things that are part of his official duties as President, unless there is a quid pro quo, specifically, something that benefits him personally is involved.

    I just find it ironic that so many people are willing to do all of these corrupt actions for Trump and as far as I can tell, they receive almost no benefit. In fact, for lawyers there’s a correlation between working for Trump and being disbarred.

    Trump would never in a million years do anything like all of these sycophants are doing. I am sure that Trump thinks they’re all complete morons.

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    kleptocracy\

    (noun)
    klep·​toc·​ra·​cy klep-ˈtä-krə-sē
    : government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed

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        The good news is that he cannot pardon them until they are sentenced. They will be dragged in court after he left the White House.

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    Yesterday I was coming back home but I saw the sun shining off the coast. I left my car parked on the side of the 5 and I swam to a paradise island. Yada yada yada… Now I own an island. It’s great cuz I can leave my dog there while I go to work. The only issue is several nuklier sites full of radiation. But that’s it. A couple of mutant tigers and a family of 30ft wingspan mosquitoes. But that’s all.