Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad
87 points by petethomas 2 days ago | 19 comments
  • SilverElfin 2 days ago |
    Don’t forget about the lifelong immunity from IRS audits
    • jauntywundrkind 2 days ago |
      President not just pardoning their own crimes, but their future crimes too. That's quite the move.
      • FireBeyond 2 days ago |
        And for their children, and their children's families.
    • quantified 2 days 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.

      • SilverElfin 2 days ago |
        It’s all future years for the entire Trump family, by my understanding.
        • quantified 2 days ago |
          How is that safe from being voided later on?
        • whattheheckheck 2 days ago |
          Trump crime family. Put your personal lawyers in charge as attorney general? Hello? Prison for such blatent corruption is so obvious
      • bayarearefugee 2 days 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.

      • tim333 2 days ago |
        It's for returns submitted in the past.
    • exceptione 2 days ago |
      I posted a link about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205018
  • edg5000 2 days ago |
    It's getting worse by the day it seems.
    • frogperson 2 days ago |
      It will continue to get worse, much worse, until people are willing to talk about the answer outloud in public.
      • noman-land 2 days ago |
        Are you willing to start?
  • arjie 2 days 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 2 days ago |
      The arbitrary amount is $1.776 billion. Like everything that Trump does, there's an extra level of gaudiness on top.
      • arjie 2 days ago |
        Okay, that's somewhat amusing. I'm just wondering why not $17.76 billion if he controls both sides.
        • r-w 2 days ago |
          The biggest amount that right-wing media could reasonably ignore?
  • ahartmetz 2 days ago |
    Drain the other swamp, pump it into yours. Quack quack, suckers.
  • cyanydeez 2 days 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.