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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts) Thu Jun 11, 2020, 09:02 AM Jun 2020

Product placement on your dime

Will that be cash or charge?

...And the Trump family didn’t ask the Federal government for money to carry this and many other very expensive to carry properties!

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Here's a link to my piece today in the New York Review of Books about Trump's dangerous war on the safeguards against executive branch corruption.

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Product placement on your dime (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 OP

Swampy badhair77 Jun 2020 #1

Well, isn't that white of him! lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #2

Right now, Trump properties are being kept alive by... Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2020 #3

Well he claims not to take a paycheck soothsayer Jun 2020 #4

badhair77

(4,218 posts)

1. Swampy

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2020, 09:27 AM

Jun 2020

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

2. Well, isn't that white of him!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2020, 09:29 AM

Jun 2020

Didn't ask us to pay for his shithole properties. Sweet.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

3. Right now, Trump properties are being kept alive by...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2020, 09:37 AM

Jun 2020

...lobbyists trying to curry favor, diversion of government services, conservative conventions and MAGAhatters.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

4. Well he claims not to take a paycheck

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2020, 10:15 AM

Jun 2020

Sucking all the money out of the treasury and redirecting it to himself, his family, and friends is how he more than makes up for it, but technically it’s not on our dime, I guess would be his defense.

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