Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad

edg5000•1 day ago

It's getting worse by the day it seems.

frogperson•1 day ago

It will continue to get worse, much worse, until people are willing to talk about the answer outloud in public.

noman-land•1 day ago

Are you willing to start?

SilverElfin•1 day ago

Don’t forget about the lifelong immunity from IRS audits

quantified•1 day 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.

tim333•about 21 hours ago

It's for returns submitted in the past.

SilverElfin•1 day ago

It’s all future years for the entire Trump family, by my understanding.

quantified•1 day ago

How is that safe from being voided later on?

whattheheckheck•1 day ago

Trump crime family. Put your personal lawyers in charge as attorney general? Hello? Prison for such blatent corruption is so obvious

bayarearefugee•1 day 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.

exceptione•1 day ago

I posted a link about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205018

jauntywundrkind•1 day ago

President not just pardoning their own crimes, but their future crimes too. That's quite the move.

FireBeyond•1 day ago

And for their children, and their children's families.

arjie•1 day 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•1 day ago

The arbitrary amount is $1.776 billion. Like everything that Trump does, there's an extra level of gaudiness on top.

arjie•1 day ago

Okay, that's somewhat amusing. I'm just wondering why not $17.76 billion if he controls both sides.

r-w•about 21 hours ago

The biggest amount that right-wing media could reasonably ignore?

ahartmetz•1 day ago

Drain the other swamp, pump it into yours. Quack quack, suckers.

cyanydeez•1 day 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.

Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad

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