Donald Trump Gave Cash, Got Settlement From Chris Christie

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-gave-cash-got-210127725.html?nhp=1

For years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has faced questions about whether he has unduly rewarded energy and investment industry donors with state government favors. Now the spotlight has turned to another major donor who appears to have been treated well by Christie's administration: Donald Trump.

According to a report Wednesday in the New York Times, Trump casinos saw their tax bill reduced by roughly $25 million, when the Christie administration agreed to settle a longstanding lawsuit over back taxes for pennies on the dollar. Christie's predecessors had taken Trump's empire to court, alleging it owed nearly $30 million in unpaid taxes and interest — but after Christie came into office, state officials agreed to drop the case in exchange for just $5 million, according to the newspaper.

The 2011 settlement followed Trump pumping $170,000 into the Republican Governors Association — which backed Christie's election campaign — in 2009 and 2010, according to data compiled by PoliticalMoneyLine.com. That was part of the total $620,000 he would end up giving to the group, which was ultimately chaired by Christie in 2014.

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- Among the record $6 billion in corporate subsidies doled out by Christie's administration are some which flowed to big Republican donors.

[DURHAM D]

1. This is just a distraction designed to change the subject away

from the fact the CGI accepted several million dollars from Australia several months back.

Distraction, Distraction, Distraction.

[MineralMan]

2. Crooked Donald.

Crooked Christie.

Crooked Republicans.

And so it goes, over and over again.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Pay to play! Pay to play! Pay to play! Pay to play!

[Stonepounder]

4. But, when asked, Christie denied even knowing about the tax settlement.

But it is 'Crooked Hillary' and 'Benghazi' and "Obama's a secret Muslim" is all we hear on CNN, MSNBC, and the other news.

Here's a conspiracy theory for y'all. The GOP is running Trump, knowing he can't possibly win. Hillary will spend the next 4 years being called every name in the book, her accomplishments ignored, her missteps blown up to look like disasters. Then in 2020 the GOP will run someone sane and all the folk who have heard nothing but Hillary Hate for four years will look at him (yeah, they will run a 'him') and go, 'Whew, somebody we can vote for' and bingo. There goes our nation down the drain.

[bullimiami]

5. "THIS IS THE KIND OF PAY FOR PLAY ...."

Oh wait, not democrats, nothing to see here.

[psychmommy]

6. But there is no money for the pension system. Those evil teachesrs, cops and state workers are just

sucking the state dry.

[MFM008]

7. Maybe that's why he didn't get VP

to much crooked history.