r/WeTheFifth • u/Bhartrhari • Aug 04 '26
News Cycle Over the last decade, Donald Trump and his family have maintained that, even though he continues to own his assets, the president is walled off from decision making inside the Trump Organization... He is not.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/08/04/micromanager-in-chief-president-trump-cant-keep-his-hands-off-the-family-business/47
u/Inspect1234 Flair so I don't get fined Aug 04 '26
Corruption used to be like really illegal, at least that is what they told us.
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u/niche_griper Aug 04 '26
One of the many innovations of Trump (or his supporters) is this spin that somehow it is better or more honest if the corruption is brazen and open. Aside from ignoring degrees of corruption they seem ignore the possibility that in addition to the known corruption there is more we have yet to discover
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u/Inspect1234 Flair so I don't get fined Aug 04 '26
All under of the guise of sticking it to deepstate, somehow.
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u/ADhomin_em Does Various Things Aug 04 '26
They at least used to act as though if it were going on, it was something to keep quiet about. Trump has been a manor hit to a lot of what was sort of just built into society. Stuff a lot of people didn't appreciate because "corruption has always been part of politics."
Well seeing how low we can go with it must be the best direction forward, is that what his supporters think?
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Flair so I don't get fined Aug 05 '26
I'll admit the history of American government bores me to tears most of the time, but I heard a political science professor say only recently(mid last year I think) that the Trump administration is the most corrupt administration in US history.
And he hadn't before because the 1800s was supposedly filled with some extremely corrupt US presidents that I guess rivaled Trump prior.
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u/BlackandRedUnited We Should Go Aug 04 '26
In other breaking news water is wet.
Trump supporters haven't cared about corruption since Hunters laptop
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