When will Americans realize that the greed of accepting money from groups, individuals, or corporations has caused all the corruption and destruction of America.
I think that most Americans do realize this, but the Supreme Court majority sided with the much smaller group of people who use money to maintain power. After all, who helped put that Supreme Court majority in place?
Those are great! Be aware that most polling places have set back restrictions about how far away you can place political signage. But people can, and should, put up these signs on their front yards, or in their apartment windows!
Has any other president or politician ever self immolated as badly as this guy? He certainly doesn’t have a Meidas Touch. Other Republicans are avoiding the Trump Touch.
TRUMP THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS TO “KISS MY ASS”.
None of the $1.227 Trillion in Bribe Money is Coming out of Trump’s Pockets. It’s All Coming out of Ours.
Trump has just begun to pay $475 million of the public’s tax money to induce the recipients to vote Republican on November 3, and he is promising to pay another $1.2 trillion of the public’s tax money to all Americans, if , and only if, they vote for enough Republicans to control both houses of Congress.
Isn’t it a curious coincidence that just a few weeks before the general election that Trump is dubiously claiming that the prior Democratic administration overcharged each of the 950,000 Obamacare recipients in 30 states $500, which he is now generously refunding to them to the tune of $475 million from the public treasury. The implicit message in all of this is that the recipients, when they go to the polls on November 3, need to remember that these 500 bucks have been put in their piockets thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
But it is not a coincidence that Trump is also blatantly seeking to outright bribe all of the American people with our own money, to the tune of $1.2 trillion, if we vote next month for enough Republicans to gain majorities in both houses of Congress.
Said Trump: “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
How much would the $5,000 promise cost?
The most recent Census figure is 245,275,126 U.S. citizens age 18 or older in the 2024 American Community Survey.
Multiplying:
245,275,126 × $5,000 = $1,226,375,630,000
—or approximately $1.23 trillion.
Putting the two programs together, the disbursements from the U.S. Treasury are:
ACA refunds: $0.475 billion $5,000 dividend per person:: $1,226.4 trillion
The combined disbursement of our money to ourselves to put the Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress is therefore about $1.227 trillion
But the federal government is already running a large deficit. CBO’s latest estimate puts the FY2026 deficit at approximately $2.1 trillion.
There is also an important constitutional point. Trump could not simply order the Treasury to send approximately $1.2 trillion in checks on his own. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7—the Appropriations Clause—of the U.S. Constitution, provides: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
The public fully understands that if they vote Republican and the Republicans take both Houses of Congress, Trump is promising that his lackeys in Congress will obey him and enact legislation authorizing the payment of their our own tax dollars back to us, the depletion from the Treasury of which will only result in higher taxes to replenish these payments from the already huge deficit in the Treasury.
There is also the legal question here that goes beyond the vote-buying statute: the combination of (1) expressly conditioning a $1.2 trillion governmental benefit on one political party winning Congress, (2) announcing it immediately before an election, and (3) requiring the victorious Congress subsequently to appropriate the money raises a set of questions involving the federal bribery/vote-purchasing statute, the Spending and Appropriations Clauses, and constitutional limits on using governmental benefits for partisan electoral purposes.
Trump is well aware that there are a great many valid legal prohibitions to this massive bribe with public funds to benefit a designated political party that could drag on for years. But Trump doesn’t care how long it drags on for or even if the courts nullify it. He will have already accomplished his purpose of bribing enough of the public to install a majority of Republicans in both Houses of Congress.
IS BRIBERY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR DONALD J. TRUMP?
The everyday definition of what it means to “bribe” someone is defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as “to persuade (someone) to act in one’s favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.”
Allegations abound, but have not been proven, of criminal bribery by Trump.
The records though are replete with responses by Trump of his expectations that when he makes a payment or “contribution” he expects, if not demands, something in return.
Trump made a number of strikingly candid statements in 2015–16 describing political contributions as a means of obtaining access or favorable treatment. While such statements alone do not prove criminal bribery, Trump viewed political giving as a means of getting something in return:
At the August 6, 2015 Republican presidential debate, Bret Baier reminded Trump that he had said, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” Trump replied: “You’d better believe it.” He then explained his practice as a businessman: “When they call, I give. And … when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.”
Trump was even more blunt at an Iowa campaign appearance on January 9, 2016: “I got to give to them because when I want something, I get it.” He followed that with the assertion that when he telephoned politicians, “they kiss my ass.”
Well, it seems clear that by disbursing out of the U.S. Treasury $475 million now and promising to pay an additional $2.1 trillion if, and only if, the U.S. population votes to place Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress, he expects the American people and the Republicans in Congress to kiss his ass.
I've lived in Texas for 70 years, and as a young teen, I saw JFK only five minutes before he was shot in downtown Dallas. I've seen the deep political nastiness that resides here. For the first time in a long time, I'm actually hopeful that decency and competence will prevail.
The Mango’s numbers are bad? Awh, NOT. As bad as it is for the average person, I hope they get worse. Let’s make his next two years a living nightmare. Or better yet show them all the back door.
Greed is and has been one of the downfalls of our republic. In so many instances – indeed, if not most — “me” is more important than “we”. To return to the America our forefathers intended, we need to start caring about others again.
In my opinion, before all of this PAC money and outside influences, elections were more about the issues and what the candidate stood for and less about smear campaigns. That is not to say that there weren't smear campaigns in the past before PAC money, but they were nothing compared to what is going on today. Outright lies that run continuously and grow result in people believing them. That's how we have wound up in the situation we are in now. People running for office with money and connections/friends with money are deciding how things will be, not the rank in file voters who are the vast majority of us. We can thank the Supreme Court for all of this. Regardless of how we got here we, the majority need to vote and vote for change. We will never go back to where we were, but we sure need to head back in that direction and soon.
When will Americans realize that the greed of accepting money from groups, individuals, or corporations has caused all the corruption and destruction of America.
I think that most Americans do realize this, but the Supreme Court majority sided with the much smaller group of people who use money to maintain power. After all, who helped put that Supreme Court majority in place?
True. We must vote for anyone who is willing to remove this money.
Hi all check this out!! Jess Craven shared this morning. factocracy.net. Great for all polling locations
Those are great! Be aware that most polling places have set back restrictions about how far away you can place political signage. But people can, and should, put up these signs on their front yards, or in their apartment windows!
Has any other president or politician ever self immolated as badly as this guy? He certainly doesn’t have a Meidas Touch. Other Republicans are avoiding the Trump Touch.
Ooops, he did it again. He crashed the economy.
TRUMP THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS TO “KISS MY ASS”.
None of the $1.227 Trillion in Bribe Money is Coming out of Trump’s Pockets. It’s All Coming out of Ours.
Trump has just begun to pay $475 million of the public’s tax money to induce the recipients to vote Republican on November 3, and he is promising to pay another $1.2 trillion of the public’s tax money to all Americans, if , and only if, they vote for enough Republicans to control both houses of Congress.
Isn’t it a curious coincidence that just a few weeks before the general election that Trump is dubiously claiming that the prior Democratic administration overcharged each of the 950,000 Obamacare recipients in 30 states $500, which he is now generously refunding to them to the tune of $475 million from the public treasury. The implicit message in all of this is that the recipients, when they go to the polls on November 3, need to remember that these 500 bucks have been put in their piockets thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
But it is not a coincidence that Trump is also blatantly seeking to outright bribe all of the American people with our own money, to the tune of $1.2 trillion, if we vote next month for enough Republicans to gain majorities in both houses of Congress.
Said Trump: “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
How much would the $5,000 promise cost?
The most recent Census figure is 245,275,126 U.S. citizens age 18 or older in the 2024 American Community Survey.
Multiplying:
245,275,126 × $5,000 = $1,226,375,630,000
—or approximately $1.23 trillion.
Putting the two programs together, the disbursements from the U.S. Treasury are:
ACA refunds: $0.475 billion $5,000 dividend per person:: $1,226.4 trillion
The combined disbursement of our money to ourselves to put the Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress is therefore about $1.227 trillion
But the federal government is already running a large deficit. CBO’s latest estimate puts the FY2026 deficit at approximately $2.1 trillion.
There is also an important constitutional point. Trump could not simply order the Treasury to send approximately $1.2 trillion in checks on his own. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7—the Appropriations Clause—of the U.S. Constitution, provides: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
The public fully understands that if they vote Republican and the Republicans take both Houses of Congress, Trump is promising that his lackeys in Congress will obey him and enact legislation authorizing the payment of their our own tax dollars back to us, the depletion from the Treasury of which will only result in higher taxes to replenish these payments from the already huge deficit in the Treasury.
There is also the legal question here that goes beyond the vote-buying statute: the combination of (1) expressly conditioning a $1.2 trillion governmental benefit on one political party winning Congress, (2) announcing it immediately before an election, and (3) requiring the victorious Congress subsequently to appropriate the money raises a set of questions involving the federal bribery/vote-purchasing statute, the Spending and Appropriations Clauses, and constitutional limits on using governmental benefits for partisan electoral purposes.
Trump is well aware that there are a great many valid legal prohibitions to this massive bribe with public funds to benefit a designated political party that could drag on for years. But Trump doesn’t care how long it drags on for or even if the courts nullify it. He will have already accomplished his purpose of bribing enough of the public to install a majority of Republicans in both Houses of Congress.
IS BRIBERY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR DONALD J. TRUMP?
The everyday definition of what it means to “bribe” someone is defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as “to persuade (someone) to act in one’s favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.”
Allegations abound, but have not been proven, of criminal bribery by Trump.
The records though are replete with responses by Trump of his expectations that when he makes a payment or “contribution” he expects, if not demands, something in return.
Trump made a number of strikingly candid statements in 2015–16 describing political contributions as a means of obtaining access or favorable treatment. While such statements alone do not prove criminal bribery, Trump viewed political giving as a means of getting something in return:
At the August 6, 2015 Republican presidential debate, Bret Baier reminded Trump that he had said, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” Trump replied: “You’d better believe it.” He then explained his practice as a businessman: “When they call, I give. And … when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.”
Trump was even more blunt at an Iowa campaign appearance on January 9, 2016: “I got to give to them because when I want something, I get it.” He followed that with the assertion that when he telephoned politicians, “they kiss my ass.”
Well, it seems clear that by disbursing out of the U.S. Treasury $475 million now and promising to pay an additional $2.1 trillion if, and only if, the U.S. population votes to place Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress, he expects the American people and the Republicans in Congress to kiss his ass.
I've lived in Texas for 70 years, and as a young teen, I saw JFK only five minutes before he was shot in downtown Dallas. I've seen the deep political nastiness that resides here. For the first time in a long time, I'm actually hopeful that decency and competence will prevail.
As do we all.
He lies, he lied, he will lie. That’s his major tool, more lies, hence he will cheat.
VOTE ACCOUNTABILITY ASAP IN PERSON OR.
Looks like his business reports from the past …. All dismal failures!
Love Tommy Christopher! He and Jim make such a good independent reporting pair!
The Mango’s numbers are bad? Awh, NOT. As bad as it is for the average person, I hope they get worse. Let’s make his next two years a living nightmare. Or better yet show them all the back door.
Greed is and has been one of the downfalls of our republic. In so many instances – indeed, if not most — “me” is more important than “we”. To return to the America our forefathers intended, we need to start caring about others again.
In my opinion, before all of this PAC money and outside influences, elections were more about the issues and what the candidate stood for and less about smear campaigns. That is not to say that there weren't smear campaigns in the past before PAC money, but they were nothing compared to what is going on today. Outright lies that run continuously and grow result in people believing them. That's how we have wound up in the situation we are in now. People running for office with money and connections/friends with money are deciding how things will be, not the rank in file voters who are the vast majority of us. We can thank the Supreme Court for all of this. Regardless of how we got here we, the majority need to vote and vote for change. We will never go back to where we were, but we sure need to head back in that direction and soon.
Thanks Tommy.