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by quickthrowman 331 days ago
This is precisely what I expected from this administration, it kicked off with not one, but two crypto pump-n-dump/bribe vehicles from the President and First Lady.

Anyone expecting less than nakedly open corruption and self-dealing is not paying attention.
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Yeul 331 days ago
A US president visiting his own golf course on a state visit!

I think it's just too painful for people to admit how fast their country is going down the drain. I like to imagine how decent Germans must have felt in 1938. How did they keep themselves sane?

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mschuster91 331 days ago
> A US president visiting his own golf course on a state visit!

Meh, I don't have too much of a problem with this one. A number of US Presidents, both modern and long-since dead, have been known to indulge in golfing [1].

There's so many truly bad things Trump has done, him visiting a golf course is hardly extraordinary in comparison.

[1] https://www.scga.org/blog/13174/every-presidential-golfer-ra...

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Arainach 331 days ago
They didn't pay themselves to golf or charge the government millions to house the secret service. It's among the most blatant bits of corruption.
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footlose_3815 328 days ago
Are you OK knowing how much it costs taxpayers for him to stay at his own golf course? It's corruption at its core. He's robbing taxpayers. It comes to around 10 million per trip of the taxpayer dollars.

He gives smoke and mirrors with "I don't take salary" but it's in plain sight he's profiting from his seat, which no other president did at this magnitude in recent times. They made Jimmy sell his peanut farm.

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