$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor

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alexsherrick•about 3 hours ago

Nothing to see here...

OutOfHere•about 1 hour ago

How does he get to spend $900M without the approval of Congress?

frollogaston•14 minutes ago

I was wondering about this too, wish the article said. It's the Treasury Judgment Fund according to https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/17/Trump-administrat... which is Executive branch, but now I'm wondering if the Judicial branch has a say too

NuclearPM•about 2 hours ago

This is just disgusting. If republicans weren’t immune to hypocrisy, the world would be a better place.

hightrix•about 2 hours ago

>This is just disgusting.

And this instance is just one of the daily occurances of corruption under the trump regime. They are robbing us blind, destroying the rule of law, and using the constitution as toilet paper.

This will take decades to fix, if it even can be fixed. I'm less worried about 2028 and much more about 2032 or 2036, when the next GOP POTUS takes over. Every GOP president is an order of magnitude worse than the previous.

mandeepj•22 minutes ago

> destroying the rule of law

While shouting we are going to follow the law. When called out on corruption he’s the most transparent president LMAO.

jauntywundrkind•about 2 hours ago

Low information base, easily baited every time, hooked on terrormongering media telling them the cities are all being burned by antifa. Having their hearts drilled holes into them time and time again by those vicious vicious "leaders" and media, broadcasting nonsense Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, nonstop. There is such a deliberate attempt to weaken the souls and spirit of the people, to hollow out patriotism to such malleable pliant forms, to be manipulated and directed by fearmongering.

frollogaston•about 1 hour ago

You know what, Democratic party should've stood hard against Antifa if they wanted the votes. Stop giving grifters easy wins. No, the riots weren't made up, Biden did condemn them a few times.

spiderfarmer•about 3 hours ago

The USA is a joke. The constant grifting and the staggering incompetence is stinking mad.

jauntywundrkind•about 2 hours ago

What's happening now is unprecedented in extreme.

Us textbooks everywhere tell of the Teapot Dome Scandal, where some of the presidents buddies in 1920 did a little bit of self dealing. This was it! This and Nixon were the stories of corruption! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

On Bluesky we talk a Watergate a week, a Watergate a day. A massive incredibly corrupt totally fallen beastly abuse of power, week after week, day after day. This hasn't been constant. Even during Trump 1 there was nothing like this. This is the Project 2025, this is the Freedom Caucus, this is the insurrectionist Business Plot scum who have for well over a century wished to seek the downfall and hollowing out of the US. They've never had the chance to do this before, there's been nothing like this. They've tried to overthrow the US order before, but this time, they have their man. It's working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

frollogaston•about 1 hour ago

This is what I say every time my Republican friends ask why I didn't vote for Trump, knowing I'm generally right-wing. He's obviously corrupt, that's a dealbreaker. They've taken for granted all these decades of not having the country run like Mexico or Russia, where left vs right doesn't matter at that point. I get if they voted for him the first time, but after that?

Annoyingly, the news seems to focus more on some politically incorrect thing he said or "wahh he Obama'd more foreign drug boats."

porkpieshoe•about 1 hour ago

So you want a small government... that kills suspected criminals without a trial.

Got it.

Honestly, it tracks. The typical SF Republican is a racist authoritarian who wants a powerful government that destroys people they hate... you just want a veneer of respectability over your preferred form of tyranny.

petesergeant•about 3 hours ago

It would be tempting to label this as regular grift, but, one of the few areas the guy’s been consistent is his Quixotic quest against windmills

baggachipz•about 3 hours ago

His MO is always one (or both) of two things: grift, or revenge. He's still butthurt that he couldn't kill the offshore windmills near his Scottish golf club, and so now he wants to kill all wind farms. It just so happens that he can pay a buddy from taxpayer dollars to do this job, and it would of course have to include a kickback so that they both win. Pretty standard behavior for him.

spiderfarmer•about 3 hours ago

And Americans continue to limit themselves to angry posts online. The streets are empty so the grifting continues.

baggachipz•about 3 hours ago

Short of an actual peasant revolt, it wouldn't matter. All three branches are owned by him, as is the military and the police.

bpt3•about 3 hours ago

Americans have the most disposable income on earth and a very high quality of life.

Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away to protest a man-baby who will be out of office in a little over 2 years if a cheeseburger doesn't get him first, and will probably be politically neutered in under 6 months?

cranky908canuck•about 3 hours ago

I saw what you did there...

josefritzishere•about 3 hours ago

The constant grift is appalling.

dgellow•about 3 hours ago

Every single day a new story that would have been a scandal in itself. There is absolutely no end to that administration level of greed and corruption.

baggachipz•about 3 hours ago

And yet so normalized at this point. It's going to be an article in the news for a day or two, then it's gone because a new one comes along.