" In his second term, Trump and his deputies have converted federal agencies into investment arms that direct capital to industries and companies that hew to Trump’s strategic and political vision. As in Saudi Arabia, some of those industries and companies have ties to the leader’s family or allies. And Trump has made arrangements that would, if implemented, give him control of enormous investment portfolios that might one day rival sovereign wealth funds like Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, known by the acronym PIF."

https://archive.ph/lJBwj#selection-845.0-849.117

 

"Your country is becoming more Arab" is just another way of saying your government is becoming much more corrupt. Families getting rich from their personal governmental connections has long been a way of in the developing world. No where is entirely immune from it. But a big part of the reason developed nations got to be developed is because that sort of thing was increasingly frowned upon and to a large extent criminalized. Not anymore. Donald Trump Jr. kicked off the conference described here. It's widely reported how the Trump family is making massive profits from their connections. This is the kind of activity Americans once felt superior to. Many still do. Maybe most. But those in charge of the executive branch clearly don't.

 No different than any other President.

4 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

" In his second term, Trump and his deputies have converted federal agencies into investment arms that direct capital to industries and companies that hew to Trump’s strategic and political vision. As in Saudi Arabia, some of those industries and companies have ties to the leader’s family or allies. And Trump has made arrangements that would, if implemented, give him control of enormous investment portfolios that might one day rival sovereign wealth funds like Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, known by the acronym PIF."

https://archive.ph/lJBwj#selection-845.0-849.117

 

"Your country is becoming more Arab" is just another way of saying your government is becoming much more corrupt. Families getting rich from their personal governmental connections has long been a way of in the developing world. No where is entirely immune from it. But a big part of the reason developed nations got to be developed is because that sort of thing was increasingly frowned upon and to a large extent criminalized. Not anymore. Donald Trump Jr. kicked off the conference described here. It's widely reported how the Trump family is making massive profits from their connections. This is the kind of activity Americans once felt superior to. Many still do. Maybe most. But those in charge of the executive branch clearly don't.

Your racism is showing. 

4 hours ago, Rocky Sullivan said:

 No different than any other President.

Please share with us the Presidents who earned 100's of millions if not billions from foreign governments while they were in office.

28 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Please share with us the Presidents who earned 100's of millions if not billions from foreign governments while they were in office.

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and the magas either deny it, ignore it, or weirdly like it.

8 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

" In his second term, Trump and his deputies have converted federal agencies into investment arms that direct capital to industries and companies that hew to Trump’s strategic and political vision. As in Saudi Arabia, some of those industries and companies have ties to the leader’s family or allies. And Trump has made arrangements that would, if implemented, give him control of enormous investment portfolios that might one day rival sovereign wealth funds like Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, known by the acronym PIF."

https://archive.ph/lJBwj#selection-845.0-849.117

 

"Your country is becoming more Arab" is just another way of saying your government is becoming much more corrupt. Families getting rich from their personal governmental connections has long been a way of in the developing world. No where is entirely immune from it. But a big part of the reason developed nations got to be developed is because that sort of thing was increasingly frowned upon and to a large extent criminalized. Not anymore. Donald Trump Jr. kicked off the conference described here. It's widely reported how the Trump family is making massive profits from their connections. This is the kind of activity Americans once felt superior to. Many still do. Maybe most. But those in charge of the executive branch clearly don't.

If one replaces one word in this, it would still be true...

 

"Your country is becoming more Arab-(African)" is just another way of saying your government is becoming much more corrupt.

 

And then Obama came along. Might not have been as effective...

20 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and the magas either deny it, ignore it, or weirdly like it.

 

OPINIONOPINION,

Opinion|Donald Trump

The first honest American president

Trump’s shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.

 

Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump’s innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime’s corruption – its open profiteering, its use of the state as an instrument of vengeance and self-enrichment – as a perversion of American democracy, the truth is more unsettling: it’s a mirror. The difference between Trump’s era and those before it is not the presence of corruption, but its visibility and the nation’s collective incapacity to feel scandalised by it.

 

And.....

Trump is flaunting his corruption. Is it changing what the US ...

 

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com › us-news › sep › trump-f...

 

Sep 27, 2568 BE — “People say, well, if it were really corrupt, it would be hidden. It's a false assumption, but many people have it. It's a new theory of scandal ..

 

Finally, the US got an honest President... and effective...

5 hours ago, Fact said:

Your racism is showing. 

Arabs are only good in his political circles when they are killing jews.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and the magas either deny it, ignore it, or weirdly like it.

You lie again, for the 136,000th time. If you take 5 minutes to post, you spent 472 days here, lying.

 

Nice life LOL

2 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Please share with us the Presidents who earned 100's of millions if not billions from foreign governments while they were in office.

You should have said...".in their first year in office". We will have to wait for end of his term to see the full results.

10 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

" In his second term, Trump and his deputies have converted federal agencies into investment arms that direct capital to industries and companies that hew to Trump’s strategic and political vision. As in Saudi Arabia, some of those industries and companies have ties to the leader’s family or allies. And Trump has made arrangements that would, if implemented, give him control of enormous investment portfolios that might one day rival sovereign wealth funds like Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, known by the acronym PIF."

https://archive.ph/lJBwj#selection-845.0-849.117

 

"Your country is becoming more Arab" is just another way of saying your government is becoming much more corrupt. Families getting rich from their personal governmental connections has long been a way of in the developing world. No where is entirely immune from it. But a big part of the reason developed nations got to be developed is because that sort of thing was increasingly frowned upon and to a large extent criminalized. Not anymore. Donald Trump Jr. kicked off the conference described here. It's widely reported how the Trump family is making massive profits from their connections. This is the kind of activity Americans once felt superior to. Many still do. Maybe most. But those in charge of the executive branch clearly don't.

What a crock of 💩 you conveniently forgot about the massive corruption of the left. Therefore the validity of your post is null. Trump this Trump that and too weak to name any on the left.

A post trolling about another member has been removed.

1 hour ago, khunJam said:

What a crock of 💩 you conveniently forgot about the massive corruption of the left. Therefore the validity of your post is null. Trump this Trump that and too weak to name any on the left.

Thanks for providing no actual evidence.

3 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

1 hour ago, khunJam said:

What a crock of 💩 you conveniently forgot about the massive corruption of the left. Therefore the validity of your post is null. Trump this Trump that and too weak to name any on the left.

Thanks for providing no actual evidence.

PLENTY of corruption to go around:

 

Notable Examples of Convicted Politicians

Examples of high-profile politicians from both parties who have faced corruption charges and convictions include:

 

Party	Official	Office	Crime/Scandal
Republican	Richard Nixon	President	Watergate scandal and cover-up; 69 government officials charged.
Republican	Spiro Agnew	Vice President	Pleaded nolo contendere to income-tax evasion.
Republican	Bob McDonnell	Governor (VA)	Convicted for bribery and corruption, though the conviction was later thrown out by the Supreme Court, which changed the rules on corruption cases.
Republican	George Ryan	Governor (IL)	Convicted on corruption charges after an FBI sting.
Republican	George Santos	House of Representatives (NY)	Expelled from the House and pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, and identity theft.
Democrat	Rod Blagojevich	Governor (IL)	Convicted for trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama; his sentence was later commuted by President Trump.
Democrat	Don Siegelman	Governor (AL)	Convicted of bribery and corruption.
Democrat	Kwame Kilpatrick	Mayor (Detroit)	Convicted of running a "pay-for-play" system and fleecing city contractors and taxpayers.
Democrat	Bob Menendez	Senator (NJ)	Convicted on bribery and foreign agent charges in 2024 and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Democrat	Henry Cuellar	House of Representatives (TX)	Indicted on charges of accepting bribes from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in 2024.

40 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

PLENTY of corruption to go around:

 

Notable Examples of Convicted Politicians

Examples of high-profile politicians from both parties who have faced corruption charges and convictions include:

 

Party	Official	Office	Crime/Scandal
Republican	Richard Nixon	President	Watergate scandal and cover-up; 69 government officials charged.
Republican	Spiro Agnew	Vice President	Pleaded nolo contendere to income-tax evasion.
Republican	Bob McDonnell	Governor (VA)	Convicted for bribery and corruption, though the conviction was later thrown out by the Supreme Court, which changed the rules on corruption cases.
Republican	George Ryan	Governor (IL)	Convicted on corruption charges after an FBI sting.
Republican	George Santos	House of Representatives (NY)	Expelled from the House and pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, and identity theft.
Democrat	Rod Blagojevich	Governor (IL)	Convicted for trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama; his sentence was later commuted by President Trump.
Democrat	Don Siegelman	Governor (AL)	Convicted of bribery and corruption.
Democrat	Kwame Kilpatrick	Mayor (Detroit)	Convicted of running a "pay-for-play" system and fleecing city contractors and taxpayers.
Democrat	Bob Menendez	Senator (NJ)	Convicted on bribery and foreign agent charges in 2024 and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Democrat	Henry Cuellar	House of Representatives (TX)	Indicted on charges of accepting bribes from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in 2024.

A true demonstration of selection bias.

 

Add these guys to the list. Want to do NJ or Boston or Chicago?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/23/nyregion/23moreland-commission-and-new-york-political-scandals.html

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and the magas either deny it, ignore it, or weirdly like it.

From crypto? Lol