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by hunglee2 15 days ago
Trump is such an unusual personality, that I struggle to describe him as conventionally corrupt. He has this ability to self delude which I think insulates him from any sense of wrong doing, and so he just carries on. He's now seemingly learnt that the closure / opening of the Strait of Hormuz is effectively a money spigot he can turn on / off whenever he pleases. He's going to leave the Presidency as the richest man on earth
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AnimalMuppet 15 days ago
He's got 2 1/2 years. He's going to make $1 Trillion in that time? That would be... an impressive scale of corruption.

I think he's corrupt. The Trump coin scam stinks to high heaven, and it's not the only thing. But I have trouble seeing him being able to pull off that degree of corruption and profit in that amount of time.

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hunglee2 15 days ago
what if he takes personal ownership of percentage of Open Ai? Trump kind of thinks of the US Govt as essential his own property right now. Also, what if he doesn't leave? He's a rule breaker, having realised that rules don't apply to him, as they need to be enforced by somebody brave enough to suffer the consequences of doing so
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AnimalMuppet 15 days ago
If he takes personal ownership of a percentage of OpenAI, the court system is going to have a lot to say about it.

If he just takes it by executive fiat, there's no way that will stand. This is still to at least some degree a nation with the rule of law, and that would be entirely contrary to law. (Even if you claim that oligarchs actually are what rule the country, the current system is that those oligarchs do so through using the law and the courts. They don't want that thrown away, because they would actually lose power by doing so.)

But if OpenAI "gives" it to Trump "voluntarily", then every competitor of OpenAI now has grounds to tie up every federal use of OpenAI in court, claiming anti-competitive conduct.

So, no, I don't see that happening.

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