Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad

(economist.com)

84 points | by petethomas a day ago ago

19 comments

  • edg5000 a day ago ago

    It's getting worse by the day it seems.

    • frogperson a day ago ago

      It will continue to get worse, much worse, until people are willing to talk about the answer outloud in public.

      • noman-land a day ago ago

        Are you willing to start?

  • SilverElfin a day ago ago

    Don’t forget about the lifelong immunity from IRS audits

    • quantified a day ago ago

      All, or just specific years?

      Anyway, a future AG can just say "agreement is over". No justice has blessed it, it's no more than a promise by this administration.

      • tim333 17 hours ago ago

        It's for returns submitted in the past.

      • SilverElfin a day ago ago

        It’s all future years for the entire Trump family, by my understanding.

        • quantified 21 hours ago ago

          How is that safe from being voided later on?

        • whattheheckheck 19 hours ago ago

          Trump crime family. Put your personal lawyers in charge as attorney general? Hello? Prison for such blatent corruption is so obvious

      • bayarearefugee a day ago ago

        Another thing related to the Trump administration/family that only really makes sense if they don't expect to lose power in the future.

        Almost like the creeping fascism is a real concern.

    • exceptione a day ago ago

      I posted a link about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205018

    • jauntywundrkind a day ago ago

      President not just pardoning their own crimes, but their future crimes too. That's quite the move.

      • FireBeyond 20 hours ago ago

        And for their children, and their children's families.

  • arjie a day ago ago

    What constrained the sum to less than $2 billion? It looks like he sued originally for $10 b. Considering he relatively controls both sides, what stops him from choosing an arbitrary amount?

    • huhkerrf a day ago ago

      The arbitrary amount is $1.776 billion. Like everything that Trump does, there's an extra level of gaudiness on top.

      • arjie 19 hours ago ago

        Okay, that's somewhat amusing. I'm just wondering why not $17.76 billion if he controls both sides.

        • r-w 17 hours ago ago

          The biggest amount that right-wing media could reasonably ignore?

  • ahartmetz a day ago ago

    Drain the other swamp, pump it into yours. Quack quack, suckers.

  • cyanydeez a day ago ago

    This frame it's his friends, as opposed to the people who fomented an insurrection and are now poised to complete a bloodless coup.

    This arn't friends.