Originally published at: How Donald Trump’s Media Business Could Influence Domestic Policy - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Almost as soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) began announcing a flurry of business endeavors that experts warn amount to serious potential conflicts of interest. That’s nothing new for a Trump presidency. During his first term, government accountability watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,…
When Trump dies (please, please hurry), this will all collapse like the house of cards it obviously is, leaving behind a lot of sad, broke grifters and two even wealthier failsons.
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The fact that the Trump Media Group is held in a trust run by his children does NOTHING to eliminate conflicts of interest. That’s the thinnest cover I can imagine.
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“President Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children. There are no conflicts of interest,” Kelly said in an email.
Most of their stupid lies are lies because they obfuscate or misrepresent facts. This is a stupid lie on its face, and its stupidity is independent of whatever the underlying facts might be.
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The company claims to have more than $775 million in cash on hand
A well-funded business selling junk around junk ideas.
Meanwhile, people in rural areas will die because doctors have no place to work. So?
Tax breaks for billionaires!
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At the end of it all there is one reason for everything the scumyam does: to attempt to fill the bottomless hole in his soul. I ask about all the filthy rich, how much wealth is enough. This one, though, is special, because if he literally owned the world it would not be enough. There is no win that satisfies.
And it’s not only that he gets more, he must get it while doing damage to others. He has to grift, because the knowledge that he is scamming and cheating to get what he gets is what feeds the need.
Every day I awake wondering, has he died yet?
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Plus let’s not forget it’s a revocable trust, meaning Trump can dissolve it any time and that goes back to him.
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Typical Trump grift. Cheap. Tacky. Corrupt. And peddling something that is, or will become, completely worthless to anyone foolish enough to invest in the enterprise, beyond supporters who are giving a disguised bribe.
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I think that President Trump and the White House should order that US military, government agencies, Congress, judiciary, every state, and all NATO allies only use Truth Social and smart phones made by Eric, Wanky, Cokehead, Anchorbaby, and other spawn. The weekly press conferences by Katherine Leavitt should be replaced by Truths. And, using smart phones made by real American workers with real American parts in America by America’s First Children will improve national security.
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Conflicts of interest have never bothered donald
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One day (soon I hope) we will be rewarded.
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There’s one thing worse than a whore, and that is a greedy whore.
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“President Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children."
I have this funny feeling that’s a brazen lie. Probably just me.
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I’ll bet the $75000 I have stuffed into my mattress that’s a lie.
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“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter…”
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‘potential conflicts of interest’ is some hedge we don’t need, dear TPM.
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Among right-wing fantasies, the depop-repop fantasy about reverting to a substantially smaller US population, is one of the strangest. Brown goes down and then replace with tow-headed kids. It combines some of the Nazi Lebensraum dream of expansion to secure resources and security, solipsism and Malthusian justifications for exodus and genocide. For example, Stephen Miller,
Miller’s anti-immigrant zeal has at times exceeded even that of Trump. According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller.
Peter Thiel, who sees a halving of the US population as doable, thinks maybe it’s time to move on to transhumans or AI Nirvana.
Since politics has failed, Thiel and the other plutocrats are also toying with another solution: secession from society and the human species. Thiel has long been an advocate of various post-human technological solutions that will allow him and his fellow plutocrats to free themselves from the stagnant mass of humanity: cryonics (to overcome death), sea-steading (to create sea-board libertarian utopias), colonizing Mars, and artificial intelligence.
Perhaps these guys are right. I can already think of two people who could be deducted from the general population.
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