Pay to Play, Mr. Trump?

Pay to Play, Mr. Trump?

nytimes.com/2016/09/07/opinion/pay-to-play-donald-trump.html

In light of the suspicions hanging over Donald Trump and Pam Bondi, the Florida attorney general, this opening quote from her Republican National Convention speech is particularly rich. “Nov. 8 is a day of reckoning for all those who have abused their power,” she said. “Winning this election means reclaiming something to which I’ve dedicated my entire career: the rule of law.”

While it hasn’t been proved that Mr. Trump or Ms. Bondi violated bribery law, there’s little doubt that they abused the public trust in 2013, when Ms. Bondi received a $25,000 campaign contribution from Mr. Trump four days after her office announced that Florida was “reviewing the allegations” in a lawsuit filed in New York against his Trump University. Attorneys general in New York and California are pursuing separate class-action suits alleging that Trump University bilked consumers of tens of thousands of dollars they each paid for a worthless real-estate investment course. In the end, Ms. Bondi’s office did not take any action against Trump University.

Mr. Trump’s contribution from his family foundation to Ms. Bondi violated federal tax law barring tax-exempt charities from engaging in political activity. The Washington Post reported last week that Mr. Trump paid a $2,500 penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for the violation.

News of the fine came as Mr. Trump has spent days accusing Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation of similar pay-to-play schemes. Confronted on Monday, Mr. Trump said oddly that he hadn’t spoken to Ms. Bondi. The Associated Press reported in June that an adviser to Ms. Bondi confirmed that Ms. Bondi had spoken to Mr. Trump and asked for the contribution.

Mr. Trump has made a point of saying that he’s in the habit of buying politicians. He said in July 2015, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” And during a Republican debate the next month, he said: “I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.” In Iowa in January, he said: “When I call, they kiss my ass. O.K.?”

Ms. Bondi’s office did not respond when asked for an explanation of why she would accept a $25,000 donation from Mr. Trump just days after her office announced that it was reviewing New York’s allegations against him.

The Florida allegations are not the first of their kind. In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Trump gave a total of $35,000 to the campaign of Greg Abbott, Texas’ attorney general, now the state’s governor. In 2010, Mr. Abbott’s office had dropped its investigation of Trump University. A 2014 series in The Times recounted in detail how many attorneys general, including Ms. Bondi, accepted travel, luxury accommodations and other perks from corporations targeted by their offices. This behavior is practically built into a campaign finance system in which nearly limitless cash engulfs both parties.

If Ms. Bondi promised to back off the Trump University suit in exchange for campaign money during that 2013 phone conversation, it could be a crime. As for Mr. Trump, the $2,500 I.R.S. fine is a tiny penalty, unless voters impose consequences of their own.

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She's going to jail and you can't do anything about it.

What? I hate trump now.

And you can go on your break.

CTR gets breaks, right?

:^)

I really, really hope (((they))) run with this story.

The faggot OP is spamming this shit thread

See: >>7396430

anyone remember billy clinton meeting with loretta lynch? just mentioning haha

If hillary brings this up in the debates, the clinton foundation will look a lot worse since clinton was the one being bribed.

Trump has stated from the beginning he has done stuff like this.

nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

He's already more or less admitting that he's been bribing government officials for years to get favorable zoning and shit like that.

#HillfireMissile fellow goyim. Come join me!

Yup, trump's $2500 might even be bait for hillary supporters. They can't bring up Trump university at all without getting btfo'd.

I love his honesty with that. I found a record of his donations to politicians throughout his career, and everything matches up. Pretty much every single campaign donation Trump ever made to a politician was to a politician from a county or state where one or more Trump properties were located.

How many other candidates would be honest about the kind of corruption they've participated it?

How many other candidates would be the whistleblower to the whole corrupt system?

Fucking none

And there are still libshits voting for Hillary, and cuckservatives who think a known criminal would be a better alternative to someone who said something that hurt their feelings? What in the holy fuck is wrong with these people?

rhetorical question, don't actually answer. I know

Still voting for literally hitler

Good.

If anything, any dirty business Trump has done only serves to pad his resume on knowing how to tackle corruption in Washington.

wtf I hate Trump now
#Bros4Hillary
Thank you for correcting the record

wtf I'm a Shitstain missle now

Oh look a Rach thread

SAGE

These shills are not even trying anymore.

Come on CTR, you can do better than that.

The truth is that you’d have to work incredibly hard to find a politician who has the kind of history of corruption, double-dealing, and fraud that Donald Trump has. The number of stories which could potentially deserve hundreds and hundreds of articles is absolutely staggering. Here’s a partial list:

- Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money

- Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses

- Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.

- The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money

- The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins

- Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did

- Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work

- Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work

- Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction

- The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company

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Nice citations, faggot.

Is it me or is the msm doing a search engine shift like Illary did with that whole, "Delete your account" shit? Do a search on Jewgle about corruption and bribery and this comes to the top of the search results.

MODS you are pieces of shit

Prepare for the trump spam and the bans of anyone wanting to not circle jerk over the same old shit

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I think that's called "Karma"

Looks like a whole lot of not crimes and "anonymously source" claims unlike Hillary's many actual crimes.

Thank you for correcting the record. Provide sources next time.

Shhh, no salt, only sage now.

Mods are actually doing something against this faggot for once.

sick double desperation dubs goy

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little shill? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in theTrump University, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret deals in America, and I have over 300 confirmed aquisitions. I am trained in economic warfare and I’m the top broker in the entire Wall Street. You are nothing to me but just another estate. I will bid you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of Russiab spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking broke, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can outbid you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in enterprise merger, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Bank of America and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will bid fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking bankrupt, kiddo.

lolol

Let me just add some insult to injury

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I wewed.

LOL still trying your hardest to defend your shitty banana republic candidate. You should really just kill yourself. You've become a braindead piece of human-shaped meat that operates on leftist programming. You're not even human. Just fucking kill yourself.

You've wasted your life becoming leftist livestock, and it's all going to be for nothing. How does that feel? It must be depressing, if you even have any emotions left in your scrambled brain. You should just kill yourself.

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Are you illiterate, faggot?

You know…
Trump with Hitler hair looks almost exactly like Hitler from Wolfenstein 3d.

It's weird to compare a man's face to a fucking sprite from 1992 but there you go.

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