• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Didn’t ask about the 400M jet from Qatar, so what’s the deal now? Theatrics, knowing full well youre getting nowhere but wasting time from the real issues like EPSTEIN

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      Bet they’re kicking themselves now. They gave him a fucking plane, and all Switzerland needed to do was give him a watch and a gold bar.

      Probably didn’t even need to do that. Suck up to the guy for 10 minutes and tell him how great he is, and he’ll agree to anything.

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    US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, “Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments”:

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

    It’s literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.

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    NOW they want answers? Quatar gave him a 400 million dollar airplane (surely bugged) but you’re drawing the line at a 20K Rolex with a gold bar?

    Those Quataris really will be face palming now, seeing they could have bribed him so so much cheaper. They gave the ficker and airplane and he still fucked them over anyways

    So just to help those corrupt fraudsters a little bit: BRIBING TRUMP DOESNT WORK

    He will turn around tomorrow and fuck the Swiss right in the ass again anyway because of course he will, it’s trump, he will have forgotten all about his Rolex by tomorrow and wonder why he’s being so nice with the Swiss

  • He can’t be that cheap. A rolex isn’t all that expensive, considered the money involved in geopolitics. In fact it’s spare change for diplomatic events. And neither is a single gold bar.

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      The conspiracy brain tells me some swiss diplomat pulled these from Trump’s own safety deposit box as a “we have the skeletons from your closet”-statement and handed them to him as a “diplomatic gift” when it actually was just a threat that he caved to.

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      But it looks expensive and has a reputation for being expensive. That’s what matters to him. Do you think he can handle actual money?

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      Good think our system actually predicted this and its illegal even if it WEREN’T a bribe:

      No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

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        without the Consent of the Congress

        I mean, he’s a sack of shit for certain, but Congress has the power to stop this and will not, so it is implicit consent.

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    Global extortion racket goes brrrrrr. There will be no recovery until his and his regime are removed from power and jailed, he will not leave by any other process aside from just dying, and even then I wouldn’t put it past the administration to use his image and AI to continue their assault on America.

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          Yes, you’ll be wining and dining in their overcrowded and cramped mess hall, complete with all the amenities like metal benches and concrete flooring. Your exposed skin will literally ‘sizzle’ against the metal bars of your ‘all expenses paid’ vacation to the sweltering humidity of Americas dong.

          And you’ll be getting there in your BRAND. NEW. PRISON BUS, care of tax payer funding, an over-burdened police state, and CEFCU (for some reason)!

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    A gold bar? A fuckin’ gold bar?

    Didn’t he whine about Bob Menendez doing literally this not long ago?