This is a personal payday for the President, correct? Based on concerns he might use his official powers to block a business deal. How is this different from extortion?
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I can't wait for CBS's new owners to be gutted by Trump and Shari Redstone to find out paying him off only makes him hungrier. This will not save them. He will keep coming back for more.
I think all of these settlements go to his "presidential library foundation," but I'm not clear that there's no way he can access those funds or use them in a way that benefits himself. (For example, have the library built on his property, so it buys his property for some inflated value.)
I need a Democrat to win some sort of high office on a promise of 'retribution' and then deliver said retribution, just so that everybody realizes this sort of capitulation is not cost-free
That that particular f🤬🤬🤬er in the screenshot was tweet-reporting/repeating this with no apparent sense of the corruption involved because he has a damn book to sell…
It is no different from any of the other corrupt actions he and his "crime family" have taken since even before he got back into office. Too many crooked deals to keep track of. There's a lot of "it doesn't seem quite right" commentary floating around DC but, "we'll see" isn't getting the job done!
This was not worth losing two valuable people from their news unit, and it wasn’t worth the loss of their professional reputation. Giving in to a dictator has its price, and CBS is currently paying it.
It is completely extortion, and it was improper for CBS to try to settle with Trump in the first place over that Harris interview. All of this just to get a merger approval, and now that they caved into him, he’s going to do this again.
Extortion. The first Democrat running for President that says they are going to prosecute every one in the current administration will instantly be the frontrunner
Of COURSE it's extortion. Trump's entire life has been driven by extortion. But now he has immunity, thanks to SCOTUS, so... yeah. Extortion but "Do You Even Care? I Don't" (-Melania Knoss)
They can obviously win this case easily in court, so yeah, they're just giving him millions of dollars so he can direct what should be an independent agency to let the merger go through.
Starting to think it was a mistake to create a business culture where any semblance of ethics beyond those employed as basically marketing tactics are regarded as naive (and those operating with ethics are regarded as rubes). My guess is plenty of c-suiters are relieved they can stop pretending.
Also relevantly the culture of "nothing beyond next quarter matters" in which if it's cheaper now to pay a bribe to make a lawsuit go away rather than fight it in court, that will be done even if it's bad for business in the long term.
Extortion is when you blackmail someone after you're not president anymore, otherwise it's just blackmail as part of your official blackmailing duties. Which Judge Roberts & Friends ruled cannot be a crime ...
I don't know but, after a while the only "comedians" left will be Greg Gutfeld and Donnie Jr. (he's such a funny guy).
Jimmy "Kimball", Colbert and the rest will either be deported or jailed.
If you speak negatively about don fuhrer you are doomed!
Solidarity would look like all employees walking out in support and all of us pulling OUR funds from their (Viacom)streaming services & not supporting Paramount’s parks, channels, movies.
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Being president is amazing.
Oh you sweet summer child
Think about it. He's an 80 yo man with billions of $. The only reason to do this is pure vengeance.
E Jean Carrol could have sued him while in office (maybe she did even, I don't remember).
Just like Paula Jones did to Bill Clinton
Yet Tapper is more concerned with Biden’s mental acuity.
It's all up to the people now. No one is coming!
Jimmy "Kimball", Colbert and the rest will either be deported or jailed.
If you speak negatively about don fuhrer you are doomed!
High-rise or prison = Navalnyed