Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/trump-big-oil-campaign-pitch-corruption

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in April

Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs

The original exposé describing Trump’s offer to end US efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and end environmental for a billion dollars regulation is here

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Gonkulator

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The jan 6 committee referred and handed over their investigations finding to the doj. Over 1000 have been indicted, many jailed and the fashy don himself is indicted on some pretty serious felonies. So they could do that?

NovaPrime

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Yeah but is any of that going to stop him from potentially becoming President again? From committing more crimes? End up with him in actual jail or facing any real, non-monetary slap-on-wrist punishment?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating doing nothing. My argument is that this course of action ain't it bc it doesn't address the root of the problem: the open secret that wealth and privilege operates in an entirely different criminal and justice system, and the dog and pony show they're putting on here will only affect the small fall guys while the orange asshole continues to skate away unscathed

Jax

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So what are you suggesting?

NovaPrime

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Have his tangible assets (buildings, cash...etc) confiscated since they're all, for the most part, tied to numerous fraudulent misrepresentations and crimes, and fucking jail him and throw away the key like they would for any other non-wealthy or politically connected fellon. We've all seen him commit crimes on TV, brag about them publicly, admit to them multiple times, his co-conspirators have been sentenced and gone to jail in cases where he's named as a party, and yet we're still doing "more investigations" and lining up cases so they're "just right." This level of genuflection and weasel wording wouldn't even be fathomable for a normal person. "Oh but he has money to fight" - yeah that's the fucking problem. 99% of the shit I've seen him and his attorneys throw at the courts just to gum up the works would get any other attorney and/or defendant laughed out of the court room. Start heavily sanctioning his attorneys for making a mockery of the court, start dismissing his bullshit staling with extreme prejudice...etc. We have the solution - we use it every single day against hundreds of thousands of normal people caught up in the system. Yet this one single turd is somehow above it and continues to get the kid glove treatment.

Baring all that...maybe invest the investigation money in a 10 year supply of hamberders and diet cokes and send it to him so he hopefully fucking croaks before the election.

Crashumbc

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You mean over 1000 that will be immediately pardoned if Trump gets elected?

Those 1000?

potpotato

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Doubt. Donnie don’t give a shit.

irreticent

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He does when it benefits him. If he signals that he will pardon anyone willing to stage a coup for him then he will have a much more willing horde for part two.