He profited from the secret service (and by proxy, us) the whole time he was president when he made them pay full price to have rooms at his garbage resort in Florida.
This should not be a surprise.
He profited from the secret service (and by proxy, us) the whole time he was president when he made them pay full price to have rooms at his garbage resort in Florida.
I don’t think this is true. I thought he increased the standard rate and charged them that. So it was like, double price.
Quick edit: I just looked it up, it was allegedly 4-5 times the approved government hotel rate.
He raised prices ahead of stays so it was full-full price.
At least as a candidate he can’t direct the armed forces to stay at his resorts.
Yeah, I mean we knew this at the time and there was reporting on the immoluments clause back then. The result was… crickets.
Why should this not be a surprise?
Why do so many people normalize corruption?
Let’s turn questions into convictions.
Let’s just not vote for Trump. We went through this already and we already know he will profit from the Presidency in any way he can. This article is the same one I read 6 years ago. It’s insane that people have forgotten all of this already.
Good luck trying to get conservatives to not vote for a fascist dictator wannabe
Honestly I’m more worried about young liberals who can’t see the forest for the trees
Young Democrats are mostly progressives and don’t like it when you call them liberals. But yes, their votes for Biden are what will keep Trump out of office.
don’t like it when you call them liberals
They don’t? That’s weird, I’ve never heard of that
There are many progressives on Lemmy that love to identify wedge issues for no reason other than to designate the difference between progressives and liberals. I’m all about being on one team against the right, but I was trying to be respectful of those who don’t want to be mislabeled.
Progressive and liberal are two very different things. Fox News and the US political discourse/Overton Window has classified anything left of the GOP as “liberal,” but in reality it means “center right.”
I have come to the conclusion over the last few months based on things people have said they expect Biden to do that they aren’t worried about a presidential candidate who says he will be a dictator because they think that presidents are already dictators.
they do not represent any sort of majority and wouldn’t be the swing in any vote.
Trump won by ~50,000 votes total in a few key places in 2016. I don’t believe any group can’t be the deciding factor.
Those aren’t liberals. They’re the far left. And most of them would be just fine to suffer under Trump instead of doing the actual work to it takes to change the system in the four years they have between the presidential elections.
I’m pretty damn far left. Doesn’t mean I don’t recognize the election is in less than 5mo lol
Being very progressive/left/etc. doesn’t preclude using common sense and exercising strategic voting. And Biden is the obvious choice right now.
That sure is a fine straw man you built yourself there, mighty fine.
You probably want to learn what a straw man is before you use it in a sentence.
It’s when a person sets up and then attacks a position that is not actually being debated. Which is exactly what you did. Your lacking the ability to see it isn’t a me problem, it’s a you problem.
Questions like “how much are the gold bars I was bribed with worth?
And the consequence is?
He gets them to run in giant hamster wheels, generating electricity to sell back to the grid.
Didn’t he do this while he was president, forcing them to stay at his hotels and paying out of their budget or something?
Yes. And he overcharged them
If it did not matter to prosecutors during the for years he did it while president, why the fuck would any of them care now?
No questions. We’ve already done thi- YOU’VE already done this, rawstory.
Fucking clickbait editor garbage headline
It’s happening again, so it’s newsworthy. We can’t just stop reporting on corruption because it’s been done before.
Right? Like, if I kill a bunch of people, is the media supposed to stop after the first murder?
Are the questions raised in the sense of people who intone every sentence as if it were a question?
“So here’s the story? Trump profited off his Secret Service detail? I have the evidence?”
… he’s been doing it since he first had a secret service detail…
Insane to me that we’ve known about this for years and nobody has done anything about it. He literally just charged them extra for hotel rooms to pad his wallet
Grifters gonna grift, they can’t help themselves.
the answer will be “yes, and?”
He really shouldnt even have the service while hes running for the office again. No other candidates have them. Would keep him on an equal footing. No former president should have that detail after a couple years anyway. Just costs us money better spent of better stuff
Former presidents almost always have protection. Major candidates often get it.
