Is this legal? Trump promised to scrap all climate regulation if oil companies raise 1B for his campaign

HomerJS · May 9, 2024

Is this not a quid pro quo?

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches

www.theguardian.com

UNCjigga · May 9, 2024

Totally legal if he’s only asking for campaign donations—it’s all just free speech baby, yeah!!!

BoomerD · May 9, 2024

Remember...anything the president does is legal...as long as it's Trump. (Democrats get a different set of standards)

nickqt · May 9, 2024

Does it matter at this point?

brycejones · May 9, 2024

per scotus bribery is impossible for politicians to commit

cytg111 · May 9, 2024

Fucker is 200 years old, he's got like 5 left max ... and he is willing to trade the rest of humanity from hereon out for those max 5 years. Not a singular redeeming quality in that husk of dead flesh.

I mean it makes total sense, first he fucks over Roe, and then he's like, dont worry, I'll late-stage terminate those babies for ya!

Edit: This is some post democracy shit…

I guess, since they’re drawing up the executive orders, they’ve decided to pony up the one billion. And they have decided that you dont get a say no more. Damn guys. Good luck.

pete6032 · May 9, 2024

I want nothing.
I want nothing.
I want no quid pro quo.
-Donald Trump

Stokely · May 9, 2024

That pretty much sums up why I'll never, ever vote GOP. They are the epitome of "win now, fuck the future". Even if I happened to align on all their other policies, which I don't. I have kids and would like there to be an actual functional world for them to live in.

alien42 · May 9, 2024

every time i think it's not possible to hate Trump anymore than i already do, he proves me wrong.

GodisanAtheist · May 10, 2024

Honestly, might swing my vote to him.

I'm tired boss, let's torpedo this shit below the water line and call it a wrap.

brycejones · May 10, 2024

Remember the speech he gave saying he was so rich he couldn’t be bought?

Lol

Drach · May 10, 2024

Remember when he said he would leave the US if he lost to Biden?
He is like herpes. He is not going away.

Pens1566 · May 10, 2024

Drach said:
Remember when he said he would leave the US if he lost to Biden?
He is like herpes. He is not going away.

Yeah, but he didn't lose. /s

VRAMdemon · May 10, 2024

Donald Trump - : “You’ll get it on the first day"

Even if it’s not a bribe, it’s a campaign finance violation. You’d think Donald would have a handle on those by now.

Who can and can't contribute - FEC.gov

Who can and cannot contribute to a federal candidate, including information on contributions from individuals, partnerships, PACs, minors and prohibitions on corporations, labor organizations, federal government contractors and foreign nationals

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Reminds me of Rod Blagojevich on trading President Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat for campaign cash: “I mean, I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden.”

As ever: Most likely illegal but not surprising. Anyway, he doesn’t have to deliver. All he has to do is say he will and collect the money. Illegal? Who gives a fuck? He’s counting on a ruling of complete and total immunity for any crimes he commits now, or in the future or past.

Trump believes he is entitled to The Devine Right Of Kings or Dei Gratia.

brycejones · May 10, 2024

The FEC is practically toothless at this point thanks to the republicans on it refusing to engage and voting against almost everything.

cytg111 · May 10, 2024

GodisanAtheist said:
Honestly, might swing my vote to him.

I'm tired boss, let's torpedo this shit below the water line and call it a wrap.

Ah. Good ol Newt.

Accelerationism - Wikipedia

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I think whatever, whoever, our species or another, will ultimately face the same struggles as we do now. It might as well be us who tackles them. It's 100.000 times easier to tear down than to build.

VRAMdemon said:
Donald Trump - : “You’ll get it on the first day"

Even if it’s not a bribe, it’s a campaign finance violation. You’d think Donald would have a handle on those by now.

And who is going to charge him and when?

VRAMdemon · May 10, 2024

cytg111 said:
Ah. Good ol Newt.

Accelerationism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think whatever, whoever, our species or another, will ultimately face the same struggles as we do now. It might as well be us who tackles them. It's 100.000 times easier to tear down than to build.

And who is going to charge him and when?

I dunno ... Start the investigation today and maybe the matter can be adjucated sometime before the 2028 election?

K1052 · May 10, 2024

SCOTUS says that unless it is from the Bribe region of France it is just sparkling graft and not illegal.

But yea it's deeply and openly corrupt which is pretty much his jam.

dullard · May 10, 2024

While the scale is large and the thought is despicable, I really don't see that being much different than any other political fundraiser.

You fund my campaign and I'll cut your taxes.
You fund my campaign and I'll cut regulations.
You fund my campaign and I'll build XYZ in your state.
You fund my campaign and I'll provide ABC dollars for your cause.

It is all just different flavors of quid pro quo and vote buying.

thraashman · May 10, 2024

At this point Trump could rape someone on live television on the White House lawn and the GOP would cheer him, the Nazis on the SCOTUS would hem and haw as to whether or not that's illegal, and his sieg heiling cult would offer up their children as the next in line for Trump.

dank69 · May 10, 2024

Hopefully most of the billion goes towards his outstanding and future legal judgments the way most of his previous campaign contributions have been spent.

gothuevos · May 10, 2024

GodisanAtheist said:
Honestly, might swing my vote to him.

I'm tired boss, let's torpedo this shit below the water line and call it a wrap.

Isn't there a large asteroid coming close to our system around 2050?

GodisanAtheist · May 10, 2024

gothuevos said:
Isn't there a large asteroid coming close to our system around 2050?

- Maybe it'll ignite the atmosphere, which will be almost entirely methane by then

akugami · May 11, 2024

We just had an eclipse. A new Heroes reboot got announced. So I think this is totally appropriate, what with Trump being the cheerleader for deplorables everywhere.

ivwshane · May 11, 2024

I feel like trump is the darth jar jar binks of politicians. Like he’s so completely dumb and incompetent that it must be an act and that his plan all along has been to expose the system and show us just how incredibly easy it is to corrupt. Like how could someone be so undemocratic, so corrupt, and yet so incredibly stupid that this isn’t some kind of ultra patriotic act where a narcissist is willing to damage his reputation in order to wake up a democracy that’s on the verge of failing.

I know that’s not the case but god damn it would be a master class in exposing the rotten underbelly of our democracy (sorry, republic).

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