This is a pretty big deal. He offered them essentially a contribution of $135,000 if you will by charging only $5k vs $140k and then there's whatever was actually raised for her. Plus the $25k payment... we're at $160k in contributions prior to however many people actually showed up and paid for tickets to actually fundraise.
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Trump hosted $3000/person fundraiser for FL AG after Trump U investigation dropped
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indigo lily
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Mind you he misreported the initial 25k charitable donation to Florida AG, saying he gave to a Kansas charity instead to the IRS. Like come on, there's mistakes then there's straight up fraud. Not to mention being set up as a nonprofit made it impossible for him to give to political campaigns in the first place. Dude screwed the pooch, then lied about it to the fucking IRS.
The Jackdog
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Melkezadek
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Came here to post this. It's hard to deny that sexism plays a huge role when something that is cut and dry like this doesn't get the attention of the same posters who are always trying to paint Hillary as corrupt. I guess it only matters if she might be involved.
sans_pants
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Aren't there only like 4 pro trump people on this board? Did they really carry a thread to that many pages or was it everyone else dog piling and making excuses?
TheLaughingStock
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Exactly. He's getting hammered for this case of pay to play where he slipped up and got what he wanted from the contribution that was made.
Androidsleeps
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My thought exactly, lol.
I'm pretty sure there are some high-end escort services that cost more, no offense to escorts.
Laevateinn
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The problem with needing a smoking gun for corruption is that unless someone was in the room with a wire or if Pam Bondi has a contract that begins with "I, Donald J. Trump, agree to donate and raise around $200,000 for the purposes of reelecting Pam Bondi in exchange for dropping the investigation into Scam U." there is no way to prove with 100 % certainty that a quid pro quo occurred. Trump has basically admitted to this on stage at a debate but it's not the kind of evidence someone could probably get a conviction out of. Nonetheless, this should be shouted to everyone non-stop for the next 9 weeks because any reasonable person should see the blatant corruption and bribery that occurred here.
Once the Khantroversy ended, the media started letting Trump get away with anything and have now even started to take his surrogates' BS attacks on Clinton seriously. I've accepted that Clinton will win by 3-5% because for the next two months it's going to all be "hmm the Clintons might be up to something shady because emails" without even actually bringing up Trump's actual bribery here, or scams and frauds.
DontBeThatGuy
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No, but you see, this is what he wants to change!
Lord Frieza
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Complete and total nonsense
DontBeThatGuy
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It only took what, half a year? Many of us have known about Bondi for a long, long time.
GrizzleBoy
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WHY ARENT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT CROOKED HILLARY?????
BotoxAgent
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electorate and the media are dumb fucks as a whole (as evidenced by the coughing thread)
Lord Frieza
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This particular part of the story is new, as far as I'm aware.
No, I mean there's no anti-corruption mechanism in the US where you prosecute corrupted officials?
sturgboski
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But Hillary and emails something something. Right?
Seriously, no real evidence of "pay to play" for Hillary but it's been the big topic and now this is ostensibly a proven bribe and I am sure nothing will come of it.
Seriously, no real evidence of "pay to play" for Hillary but it's been the big topic and now this is ostensibly a proven bribe and I am sure nothing will come of it.
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The Autumn Wind
Yeah, because no one bothered doing their job to look into it when it first broke.
BotoxAgent
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well I mean it should be a thing--but it could also be because Florida
mrhyderager
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Pam Bondi is terrible anyway. If you've lived in Central Florida, you're aware of the fact that the ISP situation is a literal shit show.
Verizon sold their FiOS territory out to Frontier Communications, who has proceeded to screw over the local population every which way. The AG (Bondi) was supposed to investigate this, and supposedly brought through "unprecedented changes" to benefit Floridians dealing with this issue. Fast forward 6 months and nothing has changed.
I've been without internet for nearly two months at my condo because of this situation. Its created a veritable monopoly for Bright House. Bondi has done fuck all to resolve the issue, which is her job. I hope she doesn't get re-elected.
Verizon sold their FiOS territory out to Frontier Communications, who has proceeded to screw over the local population every which way. The AG (Bondi) was supposed to investigate this, and supposedly brought through "unprecedented changes" to benefit Floridians dealing with this issue. Fast forward 6 months and nothing has changed.
I've been without internet for nearly two months at my condo because of this situation. Its created a veritable monopoly for Bright House. Bondi has done fuck all to resolve the issue, which is her job. I hope she doesn't get re-elected.
Lord Frieza
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Detachable goalposts I see.
DontBeThatGuy
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I imagine if they actually did their jobs in the first place, this story could've been written months ago, when Trump U was making headlines, instead of most people just now finding about Pam Bondi. I'm sure there's more just like her, like Ken Paxton of Texas.
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The Autumn Wind
Whatever you have to tell yourself, buddy. I prefer holding our press to a higher standard.
I wish that how $25 million in tax debt that Trump owed the state of New Jersey was forgiven when his friend Chris Christie was elected would get some coverage too. The government had pursued Trump for six years for $30 million in back taxes that he owed the state and then Christie gets elected and Trump is able to clear his debt by paying a sixth of what was owed.
Trump had donated to his election campaign and known him for years and Christie handed over $25 million that could have gone to money for schools, healthcare, roads and bridges but instead went to an alleged billionaire.
Trump had donated to his election campaign and known him for years and Christie handed over $25 million that could have gone to money for schools, healthcare, roads and bridges but instead went to an alleged billionaire.
GrizzleBoy
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Let me tell you a story.
Crooked Hillary.
Hillary, crooked.
Crooked, Hillary?
Hillary crooked!
Crooked Hillary :O
The end.
Lord Frieza
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Which is fine, they should be, but holding them to a higher degree doesn't mean ignoring what is being done, or just flat out lying about what is being done.
shadow_shogun
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C'mon guys, the dude was just trying to expose "the system".
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The Autumn Wind
What am I lying about? The original story about this broke months ago and it came and went with most media outlets giving it a brief mention. Even the most low-effort investigative journalism should have turned up a public fundraiser at Trump's resort.
Meanwhile, we have multiple deep investigations into the Clinton Foundation that are published as multi page stories despite the fact that they haven't found anything.
Lord Frieza
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I'm just going to post my reply to exactly this rhetoric from you from another thread:
I should add I wasn't talking just to you there, but to anyone who seems to be under the impression that the media completely ignores all of Trump's negatives, and even rewards it in some way as another poster suggested. No, they aren't putting Trump and his campaign on blast in the way I agree they should, but it's frankly just flat out ignorant to try and paint the media as setting Trump in roses, either, unless the only media you're exposing yourself to is right-wing centric media or fear-mongering GAF political threads.
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I didn't say they ignored them, but they don't seem to put much work into looking into things. Looks at Trump's "doctor's note" as another example. That thing was obviously bullshit when it was released last November, and yet it only got even the most basic attention last month, and only because the whole "Hillary is dying" narrative Trump is pushing. Otherwise, no one would have even given it a second thought, despite the fact that it's the easiest thing to look into.
rokkerkory
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CROOKED!
Guess what?
Nobody cares.
Replace the name, Trump with Hillary. 10+ pages instantly.
jack_package_200
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:/ Sexism sucks
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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It says in the bottom that maximum allowed is $3000 per election? Then why is minimum $3000? Lol.
Ignatz Mouse
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Trump is basically caught bribing a political figure, something he joked about during the primary debates, and it's being ignored by everyone?
Hillary coughs and plays into a web-fueled conspiracy theory, and people can't stop talking about it.
Democracy is dead.
Hillary coughs and plays into a web-fueled conspiracy theory, and people can't stop talking about it.
Democracy is dead.
Gordon Shumway
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Transcripts tho..
Yes, I too understand the serious weight and matter that is coughing.
DontBeThatGuy
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Where the Trump supporters at though? I know you're lurking.
gutter_trash
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pay-n-play
using his own words
using his own words
LiquidSword
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Yep it's pretty disgusting. I think level heads will prevail at the end of all this though. Really just want this election to be over.
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