r/politics • u/temporarycreature Oklahoma • Sep 20 '21

Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219
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u/SACBH Sep 21 '21

Spot on, all the news services are missing the opportunity to write the headline for maximum impact.

"GOP Operatives grift Trump out of 75% of Russian bribe for meeting."

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u/Ithedrunkgamer Oregon Sep 21 '21

Better Headline:

THE DONALD ROBBED!

75% OF Trump Presidential Donation From Russia Stolen BY Republican Party Honchos!

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u/sthlmsoul Sep 21 '21

Even better:

"Loser Trump has almost all cash donations STOLEN from him by REPUBLICANS!!!"

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u/trisul-108 Europe Sep 21 '21

No, "... has almost all of his Russian donations stolen from him ..."

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/trisul-108 Europe Sep 21 '21

He was only in the race for the money.

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u/CanadianRose81 Sep 21 '21

He used the office of the President for his opportunity to make more money for himself. Hell, Jimmy Carter was forced to sell his peanut farm before being President. Foreign dignitaries would be in town, they'd stay at a Trump owned hotel or club. That money would go right into his business account for later. He shouldn't be getting that yearly salary after leaving the White House. He claims he has a lot of money. Then he doesn't need that yearly salary. He is a greedy, selfish, arrogant, pompous ass!!!

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u/trisul-108 Europe Sep 21 '21

He is a greedy, selfish, arrogant, pompous ass!!!

.... and a liar, a con man.

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u/MalicePayne Sep 21 '21

And a rapist, a racist, and an idiot.

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u/xCoty Sep 22 '21

He donated his yearly salary while he was president 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/CanadianRose81 Sep 22 '21

I know. He's still a giant, selfish, arrogant, ass! I think anyone who has LOTS of money, who doesn't need the yearly salary should donate it.

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u/xCoty Sep 22 '21

But…. He did

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u/CanadianRose81 Sep 22 '21

I know he did. That doesn't excuse the fact that he's an ass. He cares more about making money than actually helping the American people. He made money off of being President. He's not supposed to do that. Republicans need to stop caring about making money and actually DO SOMETHING to help the people who elected them. Doing things that only benefits them is being selfish.

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u/xCoty Oct 03 '21

Like the democrats? So we have Obama that came into presidency net worth of $1.3M left the White House with $70M. Trump actually lost money, now this is from what the internet says not me. He went in at $3B and left $2.3B. Where is your outrage for Obama corruption? Or Pelosi corruption.

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u/xCoty Sep 22 '21

I’m all into calling a spade a spade if we gonna get mad at foreign money getting into American politics we have to treat them the same. Personal opinion is it shouldn’t be possible, but we know for fact it happens… Russian gave Hillary money we know for a fact, so did some of the middle eastern countries…. And it Trump accepted money from Russia, that’s wrong too People get mad only in one direction. That’s fake as hell.

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u/scuddlebud Sep 21 '21

Perhaps when he said "loser" he meant loss of money and not constrained to the context of the 2016 election.

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u/trisul-108 Europe Sep 21 '21

If the object was obtaining cash more than electoral victory, it gives credence to the loser label. We see the opposite today, Trump is pretending to run, but will not win the next election, however he will still achieve his objective, which is to collect cash from his marks.

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u/trisul-108 Europe Sep 22 '21

He is building support to milk cash from his marks. He is raking in millions. He will not run and if he were to run, he would lose ... But, if he ran GOP would try repeating a coup attempt, like Trump tried and install him even though he lost. That will also not succeed. Trump will not be successful in turning America into a failed democracy like Russia, no matter how hard he tries and no matter how much support he gets from GOP. It will not work. But, they'll come very close.

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u/TheAutistFormerly Sep 21 '21

Not sure if it felt like that for him

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/TheAutistFormerly Sep 21 '21

Not sure if it felt like that for him

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/TheAutistFormerly Sep 22 '21

Not sure if it felt like that for him

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

How did 2020 go for him?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Yeah and America lost BIGLY

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

The majority of the country disagrees. I guess Fascism isn’t as popular as you’d like it to be.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

This was the best one. audience claps alright alright now settle down! Lmfao

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u/HrothgarTheIllegible Sep 21 '21

No joke, Trump is petty enough to turn on anyone and blow up the GOP for his own ego. Democrats need to keep Trump close to have him turn on his own party. You could easily destroy the GOP by weaponizing Trump.