Here's Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick calling out the slush fund travesty.
Absolutely incredible that Blanche (on Trump's directive) won't rule out money for the violent Jan 6 offenders. There was no DOJ "weaponization" (what a crock of shit) against those thugs or the other violent criminals. Take, for example, the six scumbags who attacked DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone. They knocked him to the ground, beat him, dragged him into the crowd, made him plead for his life and repeatedly shocked him with a Taser, causing him to lose consciousness and suffer a heart attack. He also sustained a traumatic brain injury and developed PTSD, and is permanently physically and mentally disabled.
The attackers all either pled guilty or were found guilty at trial.
Trump's pardons and commutation of sentences for these thugs were despicable. Now they're eligible for payment for almost killing a cop. F*ck them, Trump and anyone who thinks this is ok.
Trust between citizens is the bedrock of the American social contract which Trump is annihilating with every foul-breathed utterance and self-aggrandizing misdeed.
"Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government."
He's even gotten richer off his war. "His portfolio also scooped up stocks of several U.S. military suppliers impacted by the Iran war, including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman."
"Since he became president again, the Trump Organization has taken in tens of millions in upfront fees from overseas developers that want to put his name on resorts and hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency sales, mostly anonymous, making it impossible to know if the purchaser were trying to curry favor with the president."
"All recent U.S. presidents [prior to Trump] have dumped their stocks before assuming office, put their money in broadly diversified funds or set up a blind trust so they couldn’t even know what they owned.
The blind trust route was taken by George H.W. Bush, then Bill Clinton. George W. Bush, the son, dumped his stocks. Barack Obama was in broadly diversified mutual funds. Joe Biden didn’t trade."
Self-dealing, self-interest, increasing his personal wealth. That's always been his driver. But now he's profiting off the presidency (he's made almost $2 billion just since his November 2024 election) in unprecedented ways and likely putting our national security at risk.
Trump's portfolio made trades in Nvidia, Apple and other big companies, filing shows | AP News
Comey and Hillary should apply for these funds.