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No. of Recommendations: 5
For those so outraged by Hunter Biden and the "Biden Family" raking in $25 million, CNN has traced $28 million from GOP campaigns that made its way into DonOLD Trump's pockets this year.
"With glitzy Mar-a-Lago fundraisers, stays at Trump’s hotels, and flights on the former president’s private jet, Republican candidates and political groups are on track to spend more on Trump’s businesses this year than any year since 2016, according to a CNN analysis of federal campaign finance data," the report states. "Trump himself has been the biggest spender, both this year and over the last decade. Between his three presidential campaigns, Trump and associated political groups have funneled more than $28 million in campaign donations to his businesses – helping convert the enthusiasm of his political supporters into personal profit.">
As republican Barbara Comstock noted: "Always about the grift with Trump."
Unless my math is wrong, $28 million > $25 million (and that's just for one year).
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-grift-campaign-mone...
No. of Recommendations: 3
Unless my math is wrong, $28 million > $25 million (and that's just for one year).
With classic math, you're right. With MAGA math... $1Dem >> $1BRep.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Between his three presidential campaigns, Trump and associated political groups have funneled more than $28 million in campaign donations to his businesses – helping convert the enthusiasm of his political supporters into personal profit.
I'm genuinely surprised by this.
Is that all they could find? I was sure it would be more.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 2
{{ For those so outraged by Hunter Biden and the "Biden Family" raking in $25 million, CNN has traced $28 million from GOP campaigns that made its way into DonOLD Trump's pockets this year. }}
So we're supposed to be relieved that the Bidens are slightly less corrupt than the Trumps? I'm glad I've never voted for Biden.
intercst
No. of Recommendations: 13
intercst: So we're supposed to be relieved that the Bidens are slightly less corrupt than the Trumps? I'm glad I've never voted for Biden.
The point was rather obvious but let me clarify: republicans are quick to condemn "the Biden family" for questionable financial dealings -- although they could never prove president Biden took as much as a nickel, as albaby1 explained -- they never once complained about Donald Trump stuffing his own pockets with millions of dollars from his campaign donors.
BTW, the $28 million was only campaign-related dollars. His graft from hotel rooms, golf memberships, condo sales, ballroom rentals, plus gold sneakers, fake leather bibles, NFTs, and any other nonsense he could market to separate Americans from their last dollar amounted to additional tens of millions of dollars.
But sure, you go ahead and brag about supporting Trump in 2020.
No. of Recommendations: 2
{{ The point was rather obvious but let me clarify: republicans are quick to condemn "the Biden family" for questionable financial dealings -- although they could never prove president Biden took as much as a nickel, as albaby1 explained ... }}
The Biden Family have been major players in two of the most rapacious industries that have hollowed up the middle-class. As the "Senator from MBNA", Joe Biden worked hard to legalize usury in the credit card industry. Lobbyist brother James Biden has successfully traded on the family name to privatize the health care industry and leave us with the expensive and dysfunctional system we have today.
I'll be relieved when the Bidens join the Bushes far from the center of power.
For what it's worth, I wrote in Bernie's name on the ballot in 2020, but I did vote for Trump in 2016 to reward him for the masterful job he did on Ted Cruz and Hillary.
intercst
No. of Recommendations: 6
You're never going to get a perfect candidate. Never. Not unless you run yourself (I'm assuming you agree with all of your own policy positions).
You have to vote for the one that aligns most closely to you. Or, the lesser of two evils if neither are anywhere close to you. Anything else is naive.
Write-ins are 99% a waste of your vote. Very rarely there is an organized write-in campaign. I recall one for a down-ballot office several years ago (in AK?). Sure, it's tempting to write-in Warren or Sanders. I'd have preferred either one. But it was more important to keep the future convict away from the White House than seeking the perfect opponent for him.
