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by throwaway48476 233 days ago
Aren't gifts to the president kept by the government? In the US usually bribery is done by giving jobs to relatives or favorable contracts.
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Bribery can be done in a myriad of ways but the gift itself is not the valuable thing, it is the display of fealty.
The point of a bribe is to receive something in exchange for something else.
Loyalty was gifted.