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| From | bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics |
| Subject | Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History |
| Date | 2025-05-27 11:04 +0000 |
| Organization | RNA + Sunlight |
| Message-ID | <1014684$8ij$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <vn948e$576$1@panix3.panix.com> <p4qr1kp0qkvr7klnfmijhno4u0bqt567nu@4ax.com> <vvq572$fbd$2@reader1.panix.com> <1009ts6$ef4$2@reader1.panix.com> |
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| ...
| Even seasoned practitioners of Washington pay-to-play have
| been startled by the new rules for buying influence. In
| December, a seat at a group dinner at Mar-a-Lago could be
| had for a million-dollar contribution to MAGA Inc., a super
| PAC that serves as a war chest for the midterms. More
| recently, one-on-one conversations with the President have
| become available for five million. The return on investment
| is uncertain, a government-affairs executive told me: "What
| if he's in a bad mood? You have no clue where the money is
| eventually going." Another lobbying veteran described the
| frank exchange as "outer-borough Mafia shit."
| ...
| Trump has sold influence so briskly that the political
| machinery cannot keep up. After he was offered a
| four-hundred-million-dollar gift from the government of
| Qatar--an airplane so opulent that it was dubbed the
| "palace in the sky"--Dan Pfeiffer, a former White House
| communications director, called it "the most brazenly
| corrupt move by any President in U.S. history, and it's not
| close." Less than a day later, a crypto venture owned by
| the Trump family auctioned off a dinner with the President
| at one of his golf clubs. The family profited from the
| crypto auction twice over: from fees, which have so far
| netted them and their partners three hundred and twenty
| million dollars, and from their own stash of Trump-branded
| coins, which had grown in value to $4.1 billion even before
| the auction was complete.
| ...
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder>
No Paywall: <https://archive.is/XWA73#selection-569.0-581.808>
--bks
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Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> - 2025-03-29 03:07 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Skeeter <none@none.com> - 2025-03-29 08:56 -0600
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-10 13:10 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-14 13:05 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 00:17 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 14:55 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-17 19:50 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 12:50 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-23 12:20 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 23:59 -0600
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-30 12:55 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-01 07:15 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:25 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2025-05-01 15:15 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-05-01 08:56 -0700
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:26 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-02 07:04 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-02 22:38 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-03 09:14 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-05 22:19 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-08 13:36 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-09 07:36 -0400
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-11 12:29 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-17 12:02 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-27 11:04 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-04-23 09:33 -0700
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 19:51 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History J Carlson <j_carlson@gmx.com> - 2025-04-23 12:56 -0700
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-24 20:06 +0000
Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-29 19:11 +0000
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