Mastodawn

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"freeing him less than two weeks after he reported to prison, despite regulators’ findings that thousands of investors lost their savings and ongoing questions about any ties between Gentile and Trump."

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch

Robert Reich features a statement made by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. Wolf states,

"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable. ...

What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award

For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.

Robert Reich

"After Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, his Department of Justice disbanded its cryptocurrency-enforcement unit. The top 220 buyers of Trump’s cryptocurrency were invited to a dinner with Trump. Sixty-seven of them had invested more than $1 million. The top spender, Justin Sun, who was born in China and is a foreign national, reportedly spent more than $10 million."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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"Sun also reportedly spent $75 million on investments issued by a crypto company controlled by Trump’s family. It is illegal for people who are not U.S. citizens to donate to American political candidates, and the most that anyone can donate directly to one candidate is $3,500. Ordinarily, the Department of Justice would investigate this sort of situation."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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"There is, however, no indication that any investigation has occurred. Rather, a few months after Sun started purchasing tokens from the Trump-family cryptocurrency company, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused its fraud suit against Sun and his companies pending the outcome of settlement negotiations."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/convicted-fraudster-donald-trump-79-frees-david-gentile-man-convicted-of-16-billion-fraud/

"President Donald Trump sprung a fellow convicted fraudster from prison this week after the man had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme. …

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on this story."

~ Will Neal

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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Convicted Fraudster Trump, 79, Frees Man Convicted of $1.6B Fraud

David Gentile, who scammed thousands of “hardworking, everyday people,” had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence.

The Daily Beast

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes-state-crimes-war-crimes-hegseth-trump-venezuela-hernandez-pardon

“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?'

Augustine made this suggestion 1,600 years ago, in The City of God. Today, in the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration of Augustine’s proposition. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #criminals #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.

We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.

The Bulwark

Alex P Roe

@wdlindsy Old Trump is freeing lots of dubious types. One wonders whether generous contributions to Trump’s bank account have been made 😉

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Dec 1

@alex_p_roe
Why, Alex, what an INTERESTING question! It's of course a bit far-fetched, but as somebody once famously said: never say never! Right? Right??
@wdlindsy

Alex P Roe

@Eetschrijver @wdlindsy Well, Trump does have a reputation for being “transactional” 😉

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Dec 1

@alex_p_roe
One tends to forget since he's such a selfless president, but you have a point! 😉
@wdlindsy

My camera shoots fascists Dec 1

@wdlindsy

I presume that the statutes of limitations for these sort of crimes are longer than four years, so I'd like to see the Dems openly promising to open up investigations in the future.