Absolutely naked influence buying by a foreign country: "A fund backed by Abu Dhabi, he said, would be making a $2 billion business deal using the Trump firm’s digital coins." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u... - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Absolutely naked influence buying by a foreign country: "A fund backed by Abu Dhabi, he said, would be making a $2 billion business deal using the Trump firm’s digital coins." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-usd1-dubai-conference-announcement.html

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sashat.bsky.social•2 days ago

mickeleh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honest headline:
(Rolling Stone)
TRUMP CRYPTO CORRUPTION INTENSIFIES AS ABU DHABI FIRM INVESTS $2 BILLION
subhead:
“Sen. Chris Murphy called the president's crypto scheming the ‘biggest corruption scandal in the history of the American presidency’”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crypto-corruption-abu-dhabi-deal-1235329793/

rismith.bsky.social•2 days ago

Isn't DOJ's alleged basis to investigate ActBlue foreign donations? Funny, that.

mccarthypm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please Republicans - Can we say enough already and end this corruption. Financial corruption. Lawlessness. Destruction of the economy. You all see it. Stop the insanity. #impeachtrump

magatzapper.bsky.social•2 days ago

NYTimes really having their cake and eating it too. They worked their fingers to the bone to get him elected so they could get tons of clicks and revenue from reporting on his innumerable scandals.

rsphillips.bsky.social•2 days ago

Witkoff, the guy taking meetings with Russians alone and relying on their translators. JFC

fatoots.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nice vague headline too. Thanks NYT

jadedragon2.bsky.social•2 days ago

Revolting!

dougers00.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can’t be more unAmerican than these motherfuckers in Dubai.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•2 days ago

the president of the united states is a whore

wdfman.bsky.social•2 days ago

He is whore cubed!

donmoyn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's crypto offers a handy option for a) foreign nationals who cannot give campaign donations to Trump, b) and unlike financial donations, directly lines Trump family pockets
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-trump-coins-civil-fraud-charges/index.html

sausalitocheese.bsky.social•2 days ago

Last term, all they would have to do is stay at his hotel, but this new payola scheme doesn't involve sleeping in an uncomfortable bed.

mumbly-joe.bsky.social•1 day ago

I often find myself asking myself what the original public meaning of "bribery is an impeachable offense" is, especially given that Alexander Hamilton now-famously left public life in disgrace for paying bribes he tried to launder as charitable donations.

resistaustria.eu•2 days ago

Moscow on the Potomac is open for business.

sheilabane.bsky.social•2 days ago

This laundry will never, ever close

jillc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which do you like better, Crooked Don or Sleepy Don?

daleg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Buy influence with laundered money...

unmaskingterror.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump takes millions in crypto bribes to sell out the public good...shrug.

Man staples fliers to telephone poll warning about ICE kidnapping teams....send in the national guard.

donmoyn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Really important we remove corruption from government.* Gotta get accountability back into our Federal Workplace!

*corruption = civil servants who won't break the law for me

lunaticsandwich.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's actually saying a lack of corrupt behavior is how businesses are run. LOLWUT?

jacksonmcbride.bsky.social•2 days ago

The 60 years of corrupt conservative SCOTUS brought our country to this point

blueresister66.bsky.social•2 days ago

But but corruption sits in the Oval Office.

w-mercer.bsky.social•1 day ago

CRYPTO CORRUPTION

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