The surprising part is that people are still surprised. Trump can do whatever he wants and there will be no pushback. We are talking about the guy who launched a meme coin a few days before taking office and made $50B+ overnight.
I think those chickens just haven’t come home to roost yet. His wife launched her coin today. There is no way this isn’t being looked at closely. Impressively quick start to the new shit show.
> There is no way this isn’t being looked at closely.
Who's going to look at it? Whichever sycophant ends up being AG?
He is now immune from prosecution, financial crimes will be pretty low on the list of things that would breach the Supreme Court’s ruling on this matter.
I could see a world where the lawyers have cooked a progressively more egregious set of legal violations to test the bounds of the new authority granted by the Supreme Court. Up next is probably a mandate that foreign diplomats/us government employees stay at trump properties at exorbitant prices for “security purposes”.
Up next? They already did that the last term, when Pence was forced to stay at a Trump property in Ireland. They actually had to go out of their way to stay there, so it cost all of us more in taxes, and Trump ended up with the profit. Totally fine, some consternation in the press, but ultimately Trump profited and no one did anything. So yeah we will see more of that in the next term.
Closely by whom? Tomorrow, Trump and his sycophants will control the DoJ.
If you're talking about a future administration, we've already seen what happens when Trump leaves office and people try to hold him accountable: absolutely nothing.
> I think those chickens just haven’t come home to roost yet.
People have been saying that about Trump's antics literally his entire life.
Exactly. He’s a convicted felon, and so what? It doesn’t matter. What’s an investigation into a meme coin going to do, other than cost taxpayer money and give Trump the chance to say more sound bites?
Is the US dollar going to survive this presidency? Honest question. I can easily see a path to replacing it with enough political/VC will.
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A wide open door to get foreign political donations (see: bribery) in plain sight.