A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Are we still sold on the theory that a billionaire ex-President was finally going to get his come-uppence via a state court campaign finance law conviction, when the judge deliberately dragged out the sentencing until after the polls closed?

    Or are we holding out on Kamala Harris being tougher on Trump than Clinton was on Reagan or Bush was on Clinton or Obama was on Bush or Trump was on Obama/Hillary or Biden was on Trump 41?

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      3 days ago

      The special counsel had finally moved forward with prosecuting right before the election. There was going to be a federal trial. That all got dropped when he won.

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        Trump’s been doing crimes since the 1980s and skated every time. You are deluding yourself if you believe a special counsel was going to finally do its job, the day after Trump returned to political irrelevance.

        Not when everyone from Guliani to Comey to Garland had dragged their heels for 40 years.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            The thing is, we don’t know. The evidence was clear as day.

            Fixed that for you. The fact that it’s so obvious and egregious, yet they STILL dragged it out until it was too late makes it clear that the fundamentally corrupt US “justice” and political systems would never have reined him in, even if he HADN’T managed to con his way back to the white house.