re: Your thoughts on Trump n Co enriching themselves while in office?

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Your thoughts on Trump n Co enriching themselves while in office?

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My thoughts are, IF they are, explain how that's (D)ifferent than the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, the Pelosi's, the Schumer's? Ect. Ect. Ect.

So Trump is the swamp? Is that your point here?

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Don’t be naive. Politicians grift. It’s the game, and it’s what it is.

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Absolutely. Just don’t be naive about what Trump is doing and the scale we are seeing him doing it in.

Some people excuse it because Trump and co are doing out in the open which is very funny to me.

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My thoughts are, IF they are, explain how that's (D)ifferent than the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, the Pelosi's, the Schumer's? Ect. Ect. Ect.

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I thought Trump was anti corruption and was going to drain the swamp. Now he’s as bad as Biden?

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Now he’s as bad as Biden?

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No, that's just a silly claim you and others are trying to make happen.

Unlike the "bartenders" and "brother frickers" turned multi-millionaire Congresswomen, the Trump family made billions BEFORE they were elected. In the words of Ozzie Osborne...frick Right Off....

Pelosi & her husband purchased $500,000 each in Tesla stock a week before biden's handlers issued an EO mandating the manufacturing / use of electric vehicles. As at the time Speaker of the House, she controlled what bills came up for Congressional votes. During her whole term as Speaker she kept any bill regulating insider trading from getting out of committee. A week before leaving office, they purchased a $20,000,000 mansion in Florida.

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You're making a lot of statements without proof or details. This is the kind of bullshite I expect from leftists.

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I mean the information is pretty readily accessible. Some of it comes directly from the White House so you don’t have to question the source. Sometimes it’s best to ignore the faults in your heroes. I get it.

Okay, what information? That his son is doing business internationally? No, I'm not offended.

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When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal on a top priority for Washington.

During the call, Mr. Trump and his team won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten, a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods.

Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.

It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.

Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.

Within weeks of the St. Regis negotiations, investors with a firm called Dominari Securities, which is housed at Trump Tower in New York and partly owned by the president’s two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, joined with other partners to take a 20 percent stake in a corporate entity related to the Kazakhstan project.

Around the same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment company controlled by Mr. Lutnick’s family and overseen by his sons Brandon and Kyle Lutnick, helped one of the lead investors working with Dominari on the Kazakh deal raise $210 million in new capital for a related entity. Such rounds of fund-raising typically net Cantor millions of dollars in fees.

The Kazakh deal was ultimately signed on Nov. 6, six days after the investment involving the Trump sons and their partners, which was not publicly disclosed at the time.

The arrangement is hardly an outlier. One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.

All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.

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Y’all are totally cool with this.