Trump’s Illegal $1.7 Billion Cash Grab

And other corruption scandals: A Contrarian Top 10 list

The Contrarian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/lauren-boebert-trump-funds-colorado-drink-water-funds-tina-peters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In comments to 9News Denver on Friday, Boebert also said that she hoped the release of Peters would convince Trump to stop blocking funds for a federal project to bring clean drinking water to Colorado. “We were told that Tina was the reason we couldn’t get water,” Boebert said, an apparent reference to Trump exerting on Colorado’s governor the same kind of pressure he put on Ukraine’s president in 2019, when he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to try to force Ukraine to open a sham investigation into Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for that scheme in 2019.

In January, the president had vetoed a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in Boebert’s Colorado district, after it passed the House and Senate unanimously. Boebert, like all other Colorado lawmakers, had supported the bill, which would have supported clean water for 50,000 people in the region.

#MAGA #corruption #quidproquo #USPol #fascism #tinaPeters #laurenBoebert #jaredPolis #january6

Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier

Republican said she hoped recent commutation of Tina Peters by governor would free up federal funding for clean drinking water

The Guardian

"Adani's🚨lawyer went to Trump's #DOJ & made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs."
-K Griffin

How much did #Trump pocket?

Adani's is one of India's most notorius fraudsters. He was convicted, with several others, in a🚨$265M #bribery & #fraud scheme tied to a major solar power project in #India.

#Corruption #Trump #Impeach #QuidProQuo #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregion/gautam-adani-billionaire-doj-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud

The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.

The New York Times

”USA:s utrikesminister Marco Rubio har under lördagen träffat Qatars ledare Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin al-Thani.
Under samtalet diskuterades ”USA:s stöd för Qatars försvar och vikten av fortsatt nära samarbete för att avvärja hot och främja stabilitet och säkerhet runt om i Mellanöstern”.

Eller rättare sagt, Qatar säger; it’s payback time for you guys.
Vi kräver nu full militär support från er.
#FollowTheMoney #QuidProQuo

"WH ballroom🚨to be built with foreign steel. ArcelorMittal is donating 10s of $Ms of steel made in Europe for the ballroom project. #Trump said in Oct: he'd been offered a donation of steel worth $37M -didn't name donor.

That anncmnt came just 2 days before the WH announced a tariff exemption that would benefit ArcelorMittal's CAN plant."

"Co donated steel to ballroom,🚨then got tariff exemption."
-S Dennis

#QuidProQuo🚨president.
#Corruption #MayDayGeneralStrike #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/white-house-foreign-steel-ballroom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.efBz.8Go7uBsHGOV5&smid=url-share

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Trump’s Ballroom Project

ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom.

The New York Times

Suche rechten Handschuh. Biete linken.

#quidproquo

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

Will the Supreme Court Make Bribery Even Easier?

The high court’s campaign to provide cover to the quid pro quo arrangement of corrupt politicians seems set to continue.

The New Republic

IMM enf🚨has evolved into a rapidly growing Mult$B IND profits: dictates policy/enf priorities.

Many of the cos securing contracts➡️some of: lgest donors🚨to Trump’s elect campaign +lobbied Cong to triple #ICE’s budget. Sys: incentivizes: #QuidProQuo.
Eisenhower *warned of MIL-IND complex. If he were alive *might warn of the IMM IND complex.

Much like a MIL propped up by mercenaries, an IMM sys reliant on profit-driven prv actors:🚨<oversight💔>abuse...
#DHS #Torture #USPol
https://inkstickmedia.com/the-us-immigration-industrial-complex-is-a-threat-to-everyone/

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone

If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

Inkstick

This makes any moronic rumors MAGA made about Hunter Biden look like child's play!

#Corruption #QuidProQuo

https://thegodlessliberal.blogspot.com/2026/02/abu-dhabi-spy-sheik-signed-deal-to-buy.html

Abu Dhabi "Spy Sheik" Signed Deal For Half Billion Stake In Trump's Crypto Business Just Prior To The U.A.E. Obtaining Coveted AI Chip Deal

A new Wall Street Journal report reveals that four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, an investment firm tied to Abu Dhabi royalty sec...

A quotation from John Scalzi

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you’re that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.

John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
Lock In, ch. 3 [Shane] (2014)

More about this quote: wist.info/scalzi-john/35293/

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Scalzi, John - Lock In, ch. 3 [Shane] (2014) | WIST Quotations

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich,…

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