President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insisted he would have the ultimate say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.”

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    Seems like something a judge would decide, not the president. It’s blatant corruption that they’re even considering it anyway.

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      And more generally, that the beneficiary decides their own benefits. I mean this is the mother of all conflicts of interest.

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        Not to mention, he’s not owed shit. He was prosecuted for a reason and the only reason it failed was corrupt judges and a weak justice system. He’s guilty and should be in prison right now, not president.

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    “You are all going to pay me a lot but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

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    He’s saying clearly, he can cut a check to himself. With taxpayer money. It’s all kosher. Right?

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        What’s wild is that growing up I was told this is exactly what democrats do and why they want to raise taxes. I don’t have much good to say about the DNC but I’ve never seen corruption as blatant as this before from any politician on the national level in this country.

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        The same bunch of idiots that even now like to parrot bullshit about how he doesn’t even get paid. “He donates his salary!” Halo implied. 👼

        Like this assfuck is doing it for the altruism and for the good of the land, and not doing it to keep his ass out of prison and to self-deal like a motherfucker.

        You’d have to be in a cult to have such delusions, but they are definitely in a cult. If this dumbass told them to cut off their nuts because they are all gonna ride a comet soon, you can bet a non-zero amount of them would definitely do it.

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    The weird thing about this story is that after finding Crypto, it seems Trump is not hurting for money anymore. Not only is he sitting on a pile of shitty tokens, but the smart contracts governing those tokens constantly funnel money his way. Recent disclosures indicate that he and his family own $5 billion just in WLFI, and that doesn’t count other crypto scams like the NFTs and such.

    So, by all accounts, he doesn’t really need this money anymore. Still, he will push to take as much as possible, just out of spite. Whether or not he actually broke any laws doesn’t factor into his thinking. He is out for revenge, pure and simple. And Republicans in Congress will let him grab them by the pussy, because they want a piece of it.

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    Remember the morons applauding his good character, his generosity, and his incorruptibility when he said he wouldn’t take the Presidential salary because he wasn’t doing this for money. Just to be clear, that salary is 400k/yr. $230 million is 575 years worth of Presidential salary. Even if the presidential salary had always been 400k since George Washington’s first term, Trump would be taking more than twice the money ever paid out to all presidents combined with this one payment. For the offense of… being investigated. For justified suspicion of, and even verified in some cases, crimes and corruption. Jesus H Fucking Christ.

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    You would have thought that deciding the amount of taxpayer money to spend on yourself is the essence of corruption but then the man is the definition of corruption.

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    Remember when MAGA insisted he wasn’t taking his salary because he was already rich.

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      I still see his idiots using that dumb talking point even after watching 10 years of escalating self-dealing schemes like crypto and various other grifts.

      Rubes like that are exactly the kind of marks that a con man like Taco can spot and butter up for maximum self-gain. He’s just doing it at a national level.