“Corporations facing federal lawsuits and investigations aren’t giving millions to Trump’s inauguration out of the kindness of their hearts. They are trying to buy goodwill.”
An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, an indication that companies’ attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off.
In the new analysis, the watchdog group Public Citizen cross-references FEC data released Sunday with its own Corporate Enforcement Tracker, which documents companies facing federal cases for alleged wrongdoing.
Public Citizen found that corporations facing federal investigations or enforcement lawsuits donated a combined $50 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Trump raised a record sum of $239 million for his second inauguration, the new FEC filings show.
We desperately need to elect a president willing to set the standard of holding past presidents accountable for breaking the law.
Biden was a waste of four years and now it’s getting worse due to his refusal to act.
I th8nk what we’re seeing today is the end result of pardoning Nixon.
Nixon resigned and got pardoned by his own VP who was almost certainly involved in the same crimes.
And Dems were facing a party split because they refused to hold anyone accountable and pivoted hard right with Jimmy Carter.
Which is a real brainfuck to a lot of people since Carter is so far left compared to the last 3 Dem candidates. At the time tho, Dem voters thought he was too conservative to be a Dem.
That’s how fucked things have gotten.