And now, the corruption.

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[Mik]

We'll know if he takes up painting.

[jon-nyc]

He already took up selling meme coins. Far less work at the margins.

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[taiwan_girl]

Were not the Winkelvoss the guys that started Facebook with Zuckerberg?

[jon-nyc]

Yeah then a decade ago they started a crypto ETF.

[89th]

Golden swamp

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@jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.:

He already took up selling meme coins. Far less work at the margins.

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[89th]

It's cute they call them "fact sheets", which this administration uses anything but facts.

For example, in the one above, please let the record show Qatar will buy "AT LEAST" $1.2 trillion of American goods/services. At least! Could be eleventy kajillion!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-1-2-trillion-economic-commitment-in-qatar/

[89th]

And because I can't help it, note that the "fact sheet" that talks about "AT LEAST $1.2 trillion!" outlined some of the key deals. These key deals are so big that after they outlined them, the of total $1,200,000,000,000 (1.2 trillion) now they only have $998,500,000,000 (998.5 billion) left to explain where the commitment is!

[taiwan_girl]

Definitely seems like "creative accounting"

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

The Trump Crime Family had its memecoin dinner last night held for the top 220 holders of his coin.

The top 25 get White House VIP tours. The top holder is a Chinese crypto guy. Also among the top 25 is the shadowy 7 person company affiliated with TikTok.

[taiwan_girl]

“On the president’s dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making the list of the attendees public so people can see who’s paying for that kind of access to the president?” a reporter asked Leavitt at the White House press briefing on Thursday.

“Well as you know, Garret, this question has been raised with the president. I have also addressed the dinner tonight; the president is attending it in his personal time, it is not a White House dinner, it is not taking place here at the White House,” Leavitt responded, ignoring the specific question about who was going to be at this dinner. “Certainly I can raise that question and try to get you an answer for it.”

The dinner will be held at Trump’s private golf club in northern Virginia on Thursday evening for the top 220 holders of the president’s cryptocurrency—after an auction that brought in $147,586,796.41. The event is being promoted as the “most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the world,” according to an email about the event. The top 25 buyers will get an “ultra-exclusive private VIP reception” and “Special VIP Tour” with the president.

All of the donors/guests of this event will be completely anonymous, leading to legitimate questions about corruption and foreign influence, like the one Leavitt refused to answer. Many of the buyers are foreign, as well, based in countries like Singapore and Hong Kong—directly contradicting the “America First” narrative that Trump has built his brand on.

The top spender, holding close to $18.5 million of Trump’s coin, is called “SUN” and is held by a Seychelles-based crypto exchange known as HTX. Justin Sun, a Chinese national accused of fraud, known for spending $6.2 million on a banana and then eating it, is on HTX’s board and already has a financial relationship with Trump.

[jon-nyc]

The level of corruption is many orders of magnitude greater than all of the other presidents combined.

[89th]

Here's an outline for 20 minutes of all of the corruption so far. I haven't watched the whole thing but bet most of it is accurate. I've said before that Trump has watergate-level scandals (if today's news were applied in the 70s and 80s) on almost a weekly basis. The numbing to it is part of the strategy, I know.

Link to video

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