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Botany

(70,498 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:13 AM Jan 2019

So $100,000,000 was poured into Trump's inauguration from various countries, oligarchs, ....

... corporations, millionaires, billionaires, right wing operatives, and "other folks" to buy influence w/
Trump & Company and then good God in butter did the grifting go mega-boom*. And then I see something
about the producer of "The Apprentice" being tied somehow to Russian money .... what the fuck is happening?



At this point I can't wrap my head around everything or even part of everything but all I can ask is:

What crimes or grifting didn't they commit?


* $40,000,00 for Ms. Ivanka and the Trump Properties ..... $2.5 million or $20,000,00 for a friend of
Melania's to do something or other for the inauguration and BTW her friend's company had never done
anything like that before. (rough facts and figures)

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So $100,000,000 was poured into Trump's inauguration from various countries, oligarchs, .... (Original Post) Botany Jan 2019 OP
A comma followed by two zeros is not used in American currency, so I'm confused. Beakybird Jan 2019 #1
sorry Botany Jan 2019 #3
You just know there were kickbacks galore with that amount of dough... brush Jan 2019 #2

brush

(53,771 posts)
2. You just know there were kickbacks galore with that amount of dough...
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:28 AM
Jan 2019

with no real oversight applied to how it was spent.

Melanoma surely wanted her own money so she's not completely dependent on trump. Wonder if her friend looked out for her?

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