https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-military-budget/

Trump may have just bribed the military to help him stage a coup: historian

Renowned historian Timothy Snyder leveled two explosive accusations against President Donald Trump: that his proposed 50% defense budget increase could be a bribe to secure military loyalty for a coup attempt, and that a staged domestic terror attack is his best remaining path to nullifying elections…
#Trump #Midterms #Military #Bribery

"In April 1675, John Howe, a naval officer, sought to win Pepys support in his case that he had been wrongly deprived of a ship’s command after the death of its captain.

Howe wrote to Pepys to “crave your acceptance” of a “small” enslaved boy, which “I brought home on board for your honour … Hoping he is so well seasoned to endure the cold weather as to live in England.”

Pepys wrote back indignantly rejecting the offer. But Edwards argues this was not because of ethical concerns about slavery, but the optics of looking like a man who could be bribed."

#slavery #corruption #bribery

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/26/samuel-pepys-curated-letters-to-conceal-being-offered-enslaved-boy-as-bribe-research

The New Republic | Will the Supreme Court Make Bribery Even Easier? by Matt Ford

If you want to see the dire state of American anti-corruption efforts, look no further than the Supreme Court’s docket. No fewer than three state and local officials are begging the justices to overturn their criminal convictions for various corruption-related offenses. Joining some of their pleas are three public-corruption defendants who had their cases tossed by the justices as well.

At issue here is whether otherwise lawful campaign donations to a candidate can amount to quid pro quo bribery. Prosecutors and juries in these cases answered that question in the affirmative, as did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. But the Supreme Court may opt to use one or all of the cases to further bulldoze the government’s ability to police corruption among public officials.

All three of the active petitioners are Ohio officials—two of whom were participants in the Ohio nuclear bribery scandal a few years ago, and one who was convicted of more pedestrian corruption charges. We’ll start with the boring one since it is more helpfully illustrative of the unsavory dynamic that these officials want to protect.

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208078/supreme-court-roberts-bribery-corruption

#bribery #corruption #law #quidproquo #supremecourt

"93 of 100 senators and 361 of 435 House members take AlPAC money" - yt commenter

also...

United Democracy Project (UDP)
Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI)
American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF)
Christian United for Israel (CUFI)
Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC)
Moderate PAC

the sky has already fallen
#israel #zion #aipac #bribery #lobbying #corruption

Another 3 million gold coins to the Germanic barbarians that keep invading us!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1900865/another-3-million-gold-coins-to-the-germanic-barbarians-that-keep-invading-us

After #Trump🚨took bribes from most of the Gulf Cs, he’s the gall to extort them: “If you want the war to continue - 5T$. If you want it to end - 2.5T$.”

“Omani journalist & INTL rela researcher S Al-Jahuri, on BBC Arabic,🚨confirms reports of US pressure on the Gulf Coop Coun states to make them pay,🚨regardless of the circumstances, effectively accusing the US of a major RACKET agst the Gulf Cs. Acc to the leaks to which Al-Jahuri ref…”
-Sprinter P
#IranWar #Extortion #Bribery #Protest #USPol