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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
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #scalzi #johnscalzi #lockin #cost #deal #exchange #favor #involvement #money #onepercent #price #quidproquo #rich #service #transaction #wealth #wealthy
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #scalzi #johnscalzi #lockin #cost #deal #exchange #favor #involvement #money #onepercent #price #quidproquo #rich #service #transaction #wealth #wealthy
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #scalzi #johnscalzi #lockin #cost #deal #exchange #favor #involvement #money #onepercent #price #quidproquo #rich #service #transaction #wealth #wealthy
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #scalzi #johnscalzi #lockin #cost #deal #exchange #favor #involvement #money #onepercent #price #quidproquo #rich #service #transaction #wealth #wealthy
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #scalzi #johnscalzi #lockin #cost #deal #exchange #favor #involvement #money #onepercent #price #quidproquo #rich #service #transaction #wealth #wealthy
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badperson #betrayal #evilperson #faithlessness #favor #malice #quidproquo #selfbetrayal #transaction #trust #trustworthiness
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badperson #betrayal #evilperson #faithlessness #favor #malice #quidproquo #selfbetrayal #transaction #trust #trustworthiness
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badperson #betrayal #evilperson #faithlessness #favor #malice #quidproquo #selfbetrayal #transaction #trust #trustworthiness
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badperson #betrayal #evilperson #faithlessness #favor #malice #quidproquo #selfbetrayal #transaction #trust #trustworthiness
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badperson #betrayal #evilperson #faithlessness #favor #malice #quidproquo #selfbetrayal #transaction #trust #trustworthiness
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The White House’s responses fit a pattern of suspicious behavior from the president on this matter. #Trump has said of #Epstein’s accomplice, #GhislaineMaxwell, “I wish her well”—a strange thing to say about a #convicted #felon who systematically abused young girls. His admin has granted her a cushy upgrade for her stint in prison, including a transfer to a minimum-security camp & puppy visits. This has the appearance of a #QuidProQuo.
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Why is this allowed? How is this good for the USA? Where's the America first brigade?
#sellout #quidproquo #vulnerability #defence #antiAmerican #government #USPolitics #impeach #defeatGOP #saveUSA #TraitorMAGA
https://time.com/7324968/qatar-idaho-air-force-facility-hegseth-trump/ -
Why is this allowed? How is this good for the USA? Where's the America first brigade?
#sellout #quidproquo #vulnerability #defence #antiAmerican #government #USPolitics #impeach #defeatGOP #saveUSA #TraitorMAGA
https://time.com/7324968/qatar-idaho-air-force-facility-hegseth-trump/ -
Why is this allowed? How is this good for the USA? Where's the America first brigade?
#sellout #quidproquo #vulnerability #defence #antiAmerican #government #USPolitics #impeach #defeatGOP #saveUSA #TraitorMAGA
https://time.com/7324968/qatar-idaho-air-force-facility-hegseth-trump/ -
Why is this allowed? How is this good for the USA? Where's the America first brigade?
#sellout #quidproquo #vulnerability #defence #antiAmerican #government #USPolitics #impeach #defeatGOP #saveUSA #TraitorMAGA
https://time.com/7324968/qatar-idaho-air-force-facility-hegseth-trump/ -
Why is this allowed? How is this good for the USA? Where's the America first brigade?
#sellout #quidproquo #vulnerability #defence #antiAmerican #government #USPolitics #impeach #defeatGOP #saveUSA #TraitorMAGA
https://time.com/7324968/qatar-idaho-air-force-facility-hegseth-trump/ -
With Trump’s cryptic and sexually suggestive birthday card to #Epstein revealed, @michaelkosta.bsky.social dives into a LAZY cover-up by the #WhiteHouse, a possible #QuidProQuo to buy #GhislaineMaxwell’s silence, and an excuse to blame it on #Biden. #TheDailyShow youtu.be/28CWM6df2tk?...
Trump's Pervy Epstein Bday Car... -
If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners do that!
[καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσιν. καὶ [γὰρ] ἐὰν ἀγαθοποιῆτε τοὺς ἀγαθοποιοῦντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσιν.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 6: 32-33 (Jesus) [GNT (1992 ed.)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78599/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doinggood #generosity #love #loveyourenemy
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Several associates & supporters of #NYC Mayor #EricAdams are expected to face #corruption charges in coming days….
Adams, who is just months away from facing voters in his bid for a second term…, is not expected to be charged. But the defendants…are expected to include his closest political ally & former chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, & her son, both of whom are already facing corruption charges handed up late last year.
#law #DOJ #QuidProQuo #Trump #EmilBove
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/nyregion/adams-corruption-nyc-lewis-martin-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
…The judge in the case, New York Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen, is likely to issue his ruling on both parties’ motions for summary judgment in the coming months. A trial could begin in early 2026.
#law #Trump #propaganda #BigLie #JeaninePirro #QuidProQuo #bribery #USattorney #FoxNews #StateMedia #Smartmatic #journalism #FourthEstate #dictatorship #authoritarianism
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…#Smartmatic argues in the suit that #JeaninePirro served as a conduit to #Trump associates who said the election was stolen, including the lawyer #SidneyPowell.
“It’s Jeanine P. Got a former CIA chief of station who knows [about] development of Dominion,” she wrote in a Nov. 10, 2020, text message to Powell, referring to another #voting #technology company that some #Fox hosts claimed was involved in a voting fraud scheme. -
#Smartmatic included many of the conversations in 468 pages of filings to bolster its contention that #JeaninePirro & other #Fox hosts were determined to stay on Trump’s good side for a variety of motives. It said Pirro, a longtime friend of #Trump, sought to secure a #pardon for her ex-husband, Albert Pirro. Convicted earlier of #TaxEvasion & #conspiracy, Albert Pirro was the last person Trump pardoned during his first term.
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#JeaninePirro bragged about helping #Trump & #GOP while a #FoxNews host
The former #FauxNews host complained of “CENSORSHIP” by #Fox over her coverage of the #2020election, according to newly unredacted documents in the #Smartmatic #defamation case.#law #propaganda #BigLie #QuidProQuo #bribery #USattorney #StateMedia #journalism #FourthEstate #dictatorship #authoritarianism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/jeanine-pirro-trump-republicans-fox/ -
The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude.
[La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est qu’il étoit persuadé que l’espérance est bien plus capable de retenir les hommes dans le devoir que non pas la reconnoissance.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Fragments Historiques [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/racine-jean/78506/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dangling #delay #favors #gratitude #hope #investment #loyalty #promises #quidproquo
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The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude.
[La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est qu’il étoit persuadé que l’espérance est bien plus capable de retenir les hommes dans le devoir que non pas la reconnoissance.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Fragments Historiques [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/racine-jean/78506/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dangling #delay #favors #gratitude #hope #investment #loyalty #promises #quidproquo
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The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude.
[La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est qu’il étoit persuadé que l’espérance est bien plus capable de retenir les hommes dans le devoir que non pas la reconnoissance.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Fragments Historiques [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/racine-jean/78506/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dangling #delay #favors #gratitude #hope #investment #loyalty #promises #quidproquo
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The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude.
[La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est qu’il étoit persuadé que l’espérance est bien plus capable de retenir les hommes dans le devoir que non pas la reconnoissance.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Fragments Historiques [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/racine-jean/78506/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dangling #delay #favors #gratitude #hope #investment #loyalty #promises #quidproquo
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Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
[Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἐὰν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 7: 12, “The Golden Rule” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/12104/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jesus #goldenrule #dountoothers #Christianity #compassion #empathy #fairness #goldenrule #Jesus #justice #meme #perspective #quidproquo #reciprocation #reciprocity #wisdom
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While Judge Ho ultimately agreed to throw out the charges, he took a swipe at the #DOJ’s #credibility, saying it appeared as though officials had used their #power in a #QuidProQuo with #EricAdams to get him to support #Trump’s #immigration crackdown in the city.
“Everything here smacks of a bargain,” he wrote. “Dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.”
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The same guy who claims he’s not in the file and that it’s a hoax is about to pardon Epstein’s former accomplice and girlfriend to buy her silence.
#MAGA #epstein #EpsteinFiles #trump #republicans #doj #ghislainemaxwell #quidproquo #Sexualassault #news
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This'd be the second reported shut-off by #Musk?
Wonder if what looked exactly like a #ReputationLaundering campaign will kick in again and have respected journalists and publications like #AnneApplebaum and #TheAtlantic putting out more exonerations of Musk shutting off data based on very flimsy evidence?
Amazing what billions of dollars can buy.
And is Musk a RU asset? Or is there a more #QuidProQuo relationship?
Direct link below
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/ -
Though Donlon accuses Mayor #EricAdams & other #police officials of various federal #crimes — & even calls for an independent authority to oversee key decisions at the #NYPD — there is no indication that federal prosecutors in Manhattan will agree with his assessment & many of his claims are uncorroborated for now.
…Broadly, the lawsuit echoes 4 others filed last week by fmr top police ofcls, which also accused Adams of enabling corruption in the NYPD.
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In his suit, Donlon claims in his brief time in the #NYPD to have “uncovered systemic #corruption & #criminal conduct being perpetrated by the NYPD’s leadership.” He says that when he reported his findings to the mayor, #EricAdams “condoned the misconduct,” allowing the wrongdoing to continue.
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The commissioner, Thomas G. Donlon, a fmr #FBI ofcl, was appointed in the fall of 2024 to stabilize a shaky #NYPD that had been micromanaged by Mayor #EricAdams, a fmr captain on the force. Donlon stepped down weeks into the job after federal agents searched his home for #ClassifiedDocuments in an unrelated investigation.
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Ex-Commissioner Sues, Saying #EricAdams Ran #NYPD as a #Criminal Enterprise
Thomas G. Donlon, who served only weeks, said in a lawsuit that New York’s mayor & top department officials had manipulated the system for personal & political gain.
#law #Trump #DOJ #QuidProQuo #EmilBove #DanielleSassoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/nyregion/nypd-lawsuit-rico-donlon-eric-adams.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
…#EmilBove also faced sharp questions about his ordering the dismissal of #EricAdams’ corruption case, which led to the resignation of a top prosecutor in New York & several other #DOJ officials. #DanielleSassoon, then-interim #USattorney for the #SDNY, cited her objections to what she called a political “#QuidProQuo” with Adams’ legal team for the mayor to enforce #Trump’s #immigration policies only if he was freed from the looming prosecution.
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#Trump #Pardoned #Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
#PaulWalczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
Paul Walczak's recent #pardon by President Trump spared him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and serving 18 months in prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html
https://archive.ph/iZF2F
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#DOJ reaches deal with #Boeing to allow planemaker to avoid prosecution
DOJ said on Friday it has struck a deal in principle with Boeing to allow it to avoid prosecution in a #fraud case stemming from 2 #fatal 737 MAX #PlaneCrashes that killed 346 people.
The agreement allows Boeing to avoid being branded a #convicted #felon & is a blow to families who lost relatives in the crashes & had pressed prosecutors to take the US planemaker to trial.
#law #QuidProQuo #felon47
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-justice-department-reaches-deal-with-boeing-allow-planemaker-avoid-2025-05-23/ -
#Trump says #US will end all #sanctions on #Syria 1 day before meeting with their leader ‘to give them a chance at greatness’
#transactional #QuidProQuo
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/13/us/trump-news-saudi-arabia?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1810533F-0985-49F9-AF16-552FC0858230 -
Die Koppelgeschäfte mit "Stadtmöblierern" sind ein Irrweg, denn sie machen die #Stadt weniger demokratisch:
1) die Verträge gehen über 15 Jahre, also drei #Legislaturperioden
2) manche Details gelten als #Geschäftgeseheimnis, obwohl sie unmittelbar die Allgemeinheit betreffen
3) der Einfluss auf die #Verwaltung geht sehr weit, z.B. darf politische #Werbung (!) vor Wahlen und Volksbegehren die "Rechte" von STROER und JCDecaux nicht einschränken - und die Sichtbarkeit der Werbeanlagen nicht behindern (#Guckzwang!)
4) die Stadt wird immer weiter über den Tisch gezogen, da man sich mit den privaten Partnern gutstellen will. So haben die Konzerne während der Corona-Krise großzügige Zusatzkonditionen für sich herausverhandelt.
#Demokratie #Volksbegehren #Korruption #QuidProQuo #PublicPrivatePartnership #Privatisierung #Neoliberalismus
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So politely put.
" ... by which polluters can go to the president and request a ‘get out of jail free’ card".
Can anyone see Trump handing these out for free?
#Extortion #ThoseBucksStopHere #CostOfDoingBusiness #Corruption #QuidProQuo
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So politely put.
" ... by which polluters can go to the president and request a ‘get out of jail free’ card".
Can anyone see Trump handing these out for free?
#Extortion #ThoseBucksStopHere #CostOfDoingBusiness #Corruption #QuidProQuo
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So politely put.
" ... by which polluters can go to the president and request a ‘get out of jail free’ card".
Can anyone see Trump handing these out for free?
#Extortion #ThoseBucksStopHere #CostOfDoingBusiness #Corruption #QuidProQuo
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So politely put.
" ... by which polluters can go to the president and request a ‘get out of jail free’ card".
Can anyone see Trump handing these out for free?
#Extortion #ThoseBucksStopHere #CostOfDoingBusiness #Corruption #QuidProQuo
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So politely put.
" ... by which polluters can go to the president and request a ‘get out of jail free’ card".
Can anyone see Trump handing these out for free?
#Extortion #ThoseBucksStopHere #CostOfDoingBusiness #Corruption #QuidProQuo
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Read resignation letter from #SDNY prosecutors asked to admit ‘wrongdoing’
“We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” wrote prosecutors involved in the bribery case against New York Mayor #EricAdams. “We resign.” -
There's a word for it: #beggars. Or, better still: #panhandlers. Or, more truthfully, #grifters.
#payforplay #quidproquo #criminal #WhiteHouse #government #USPolitics #corruptGOP #CorruptToTheCore
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True #MafiaState:
#Trump rescinds #ExecutiveOrder targeting Paul, Weiss citing *commitments* from #law firm
After a meeting w/ Brad Karp, the firm’s chairman, in which Karp “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of fmr partner #MarkPomerantz, & agreed to some #QuidProQuo — or at least some #QuidProBono 😉 — was agreed to, Trump withdrew the EO.
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When you #buy the presidency for $270M+, you expect a proportionate #RoI. This #corruptGOP #felon is the face of #CronyCapitalism.
#CorruptToTheCore #impeach #quidproquo #loot #thief #government #USPolitics