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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Wonder What This Tr**p Band Of Criminals Got Away With That We Don't Know About?......
After listening to much of the testimony in this Tr**p trial - it makes one wonder what other crimes these people got away with that we haven't yet discovered?
What other crimes were covered up? Who else did they pay off? What additional fraudulent activities did they get away with?
SWBTATTReg
(22,388 posts)stop in its tracks?
BComplex
(8,125 posts)And whatever he had on the republicans (that Russia gave him) so that he could keep them in line.
LiberalArkie
(15,751 posts)policy.
Johnny2X2X
(19,420 posts)Trump was basically committing subornation of perjury, for which Cohen went to prison for.
The White House was being run like a mafia family. Sickening. Our entire system of government had spent 240 years keeping this type of corruption out of the White Huse and here it was out in the open with Trump.
atreides1
(16,139 posts)The Russians have always been better than the West at digging up dirt on almost anyone!!!
spanone
(136,050 posts)This wasn't even covered up.
underpants
(183,273 posts)WASHINGTON Former President Donald Trump's businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former president's family in the process, according to the District of Columbia's attorney general.
Racine has said the committee misused nonprofit funds and coordinated with the hotel's management and members of the Trump family to arrange the events. He said one of the event's planners raised concerns about pricing with Trump, the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and Rick Gates, a top campaign official at the time.
Gates, a former Trump campaign aide who cooperated in the special counsel's Russia investigation, personally managed discussions with the hotel about using the space, including ballrooms and meeting rooms, the attorney general's office has said. In one instance, Gates contacted Ivanka Trump and told her that he was "a bit worried about the optics" of the committee paying such a high fee, Racine said.
Prosecutors say the committee could have hosted inaugural events at other venues either for free or for reduced costs but didn't consider those options.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123493/trump-inauguration-dc-hotel-lawsuit-settlement
KPN
(15,699 posts)before even swearing in!
underpants
(183,273 posts)The committees tax filing showed that $26 million of the spending went to an event planning firm started in December by a friend of the First Lady.
Funtatlaguy
(10,915 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)He was not there to look at sand.
underpants
(183,273 posts)Its in my phone calendar
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Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)I don't know what was going on.
But it was said that Trump had to keep being entertained in a dramatic way
or he got bored and caused trouble.
Joinfortmill
(14,621 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)What else did they do?
How much money did Trump steal from the US that we don't know about?
bucolic_frolic
(43,729 posts)intimated that more than 100 women were paid off over the years. He surely had some reason for attaching such a number to it.
Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)How many pregnancies?
How many abortions?
How many babies born?
bucolic_frolic
(43,729 posts)I bet it wouldn't even make the National Enquiry Rag these days.
Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)Or if he threatens the mothers to make them back down.
underpants
(183,273 posts)Last month, the committee that ran President Donald Trumps inaugural festivities released basic details about its revenues and spending. Trump raised $107 million, almost twice the previous record, and spent $104 million. The committees tax filing showed that $26 million of the spending went to an event planning firm started in December by a friend of the First Lady.
We found one more thing that set this inauguration apart: Some of the donations are almost impossible to trace. As the Center for Responsive Politics reports, two dark money groups, which do not disclose their donors, gave $1 million each. Trumps inaugural committee appears to have been the first to accept significant donations from dark money groups.
There are also, of course, many donors we do know about. Like other presidents, Trump raised millions from corporate contributions and wealthy individuals. The securities and investment industry contributed the most, nearly $15 million. Other top industries included real estate, casinos, oil and gas, and mining each of which later benefited from various presidential initiatives and policies. The existence of a contribution, of course, doesnt mean thats the reason for a policy change.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-podcast-whered-trumps-record-inauguration-spending-go-its-inexplicable
Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)underpants
(183,273 posts)I dont know who else may have performed.
See post#5 too. He held an event at his hotel and massively overpay himself.
Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)Right from the start.
Johonny
(21,054 posts)We know he got away with a lot more business fraud in the civil trial. He never received criminal charges from those obvious crimes as well. He also got away with campaign finance violations. He also got away with 10 counts of obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. He also nearly got away with the current trials charges as the actual limitation passed but I believe there is an exemption due to covid shutdowns. This will likely be appealed if when he's found guilty, I think.
Irish_Dem
(49,124 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,782 posts)triron
(22,055 posts)As POTUS. And the argument that the US and Russia weren't in a declared war is absurd.
Botany
(70,742 posts)
. Russian produced and backed HRC and her emails.
Trumps mentor and mafia lawyer Roy Cohn.
jayschool2013
(2,325 posts)I often wonder if the Lard of Mierda Loco or the Trump Org has ever engaged in an above-board business deal of any kind.
I seriously doubt it.
Ponietz
(3,114 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,621 posts)DoBW
(783 posts)follow the money seems rule of thumb
JoseBalow
(2,827 posts)I can honestly say that NOTHING would surprise me at this point. Hit squads, embezzlement, prostitution ring, you name it. The republican party is a criminal organization in the midst of an open crime spree, and drumpf & company are at the head of the criminal racket.
twodogsbarking
(10,113 posts)louslobbs
(3,242 posts)❓❓❓❓❓❓❓
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,131 posts)Sogo
(5,048 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,082 posts)to Russia and other foreign governments in exchange for business deals, financial assistance, and political help.
He has been blackmailing a number of GOP Representatives and Senators with evidence of bribes, sex tapes, and other goodies obtained from Putin and others.
Oh, and the pee tape: probably real.
hydrolastic
(494 posts)It just seems so clear to me, the entire pattern. Someone checked out the top secret material. Trump has the system break down so its not returned, then he takes it from the White House. Do you think that the White House doesn't know what he took ? What about acomplicies ? Then he lets it leak that he has top secret documents. Just a brazen criminal the whole way.
KentuckyWoman
(6,704 posts)Tip of the iceberg.