That old Law of Large Numbers seems to confuse the MAGAnistas. As the late Senator Everett Dirksen might have said, "A thousand here, a thousand there, and pretty soon it's more money than a MAGA will ever know" Hunter Biden apparently sold a few paintings or piggybacked off his name. The total amount is less than a Goldman Sachs' partner gets at Bonus Time each year. Yes, to benefit in that manner from a name is immoral, but there is zero indication it affected any policy, other than a pardon. The dosh Hunter might have taken in is not even a rounding error compared to the corrupt grifting of the Trump Crime Family. Remember back when the US still had a Dept of Justice and even States had judges who followed the law? Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies and fined. Trump was found civilly guilty of sexual assault and fined. Trump was found guilty of defamation and fined. Trump did not have the net worth to pay the combined fines, per documents he filed with the courts on appeal. Trump re-entered office in dire financial straights. Eighteen months later, Trump has gained at least $4 billion in personal wealth. Toss in the bribe---I think it's fair to call the B747 from Qatar a bribe, even if Qatar might not have a specific target in mind, but rather just leave things open---and Trump's gain, all while ostensibly being a "public servant", is approaching $5,000,000,000. The first indication of MAGAnista bafflement by the law of large numbers is when some say, "Well, he doesn't even accept a salary". A President's salary is $400,000. Do the math. $5,000,000,000 - $400,000 is still a massive number. Subtract the most Foxian estimate of Hunter Biden's take from that $5,000,000,000 and the number of Trump's gain from grift and corruption is still massive. Laughably, some MAGAs have actually said that "It isn't corruption if it's out in the open". Oh my! That's like saying, "Yes, I robbed that bank and shot that teller, but the fact that I freely admit it makes me innocent." The Trump Crime Family began this grifting in Trump 1.0. Remember what the now-"Iran Deal Negotiator" Jared Kushner did? He might say, "Qatar been berry berry good to me". To refresh people's memories: Jared top ticked the NYC RE market in 2008, paying upwards of $1.5 billion for a building called 666 Fifth Ave. For that "beastly" property, part of the financing was a $1.2 billion balloon payment due, IIRC, in early 2018. By that time, the market value of the beast had fallen to around $700 million, leaving Jared with a huge hole and likely a negative net worth. At that time, Qatar was under sanctions from the US owing to its perceived or actual cooperation and relationship with Iran. Jared was saved and his balloon payment covered when his property was refinanced by Qatar. "Coincidentally", just days later the US and Gulf country sanctions against Qatar were dropped. Imagine that! Upon leaving office as a result of Trump's loss to President Biden, but with Trump both whining about a "stolen election" (sic) and promising to run again, Jared was awarded $2 billion from Saudi Arabia to manage, despite the fact Jared had no fund management company and had never managed money. (Note that despite knowledge that MbS had ordered the slaughter and dismemberment of WaPo writer Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration had chosen to ignore the killing and befriend MbS. The CIA had not only provided Trump with SIGINT intercepts of phone calls between the murderers and MbS, it also gave Trump images showing the remains of Khashoggi, his arms and legs removed, his penis cut off, and his face peeled away, with everything laid out in gruesome form in a grotesque still life manner) The Trump Crime Family laid the groundwork for Term 2 corruption in December 2025, just a month before Trump re-entered the Oval Office, by taking in a $500,000,000 "investment in World Liberty Financial (Trump family owned) from the UAE. The UAE had tried repeatedly under the Biden Administration to cover an order it had from China for NVIDIA's H200 chip, but Biden refused to allow it. Upon retaking office, Trump immediately granted the UAE permission to import the NVIDIA chips. Corruption and grift just blossomed in a foul stench from that point on, with pardons granted to major donors, meme coins marketed, contracts granted to companies where Trump sons are either investors or sit on the Board, Melania given tens of millions of dollars by Jeff Bezos for her "story" (while Amazon has been granted more than $2 billion in US Govt contracts). The grift has become so absurd that Trump even sued his own Administration for $10 billion (because some IRS employee had leaked embarrassing Trump tax returns), and then had his own Dept of Justice (where a massive banner with Trump's face on it hangs over the ostensibly independent DoJ Building) "settle" for $1.776 billion, which Trump intended to use to pay the convicted insurrectionists from the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol that he pardoned. And now...the B747 from Qatar, which---despite previous MAGA claims to the contrary---Trump intends to keep and use after his term ends. In other developed nations, such corruption would result in imprisonment, such as what South Korea has done to a number of corrupt former officials, including Prime Ministers. In the increasingly Third Worldish USA, Trump has gotten away with it, so far.
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