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global1

(26,507 posts)
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:23 PM May 2024

I Wonder What This Tr**p Band Of Criminals Got Away With That We Don't Know About?......

After listening to much of the testimony in this Tr**p trial - it makes one wonder what other crimes these people got away with that we haven't yet discovered?

What other crimes were covered up? Who else did they pay off? What additional fraudulent activities did they get away with?

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I Wonder What This Tr**p Band Of Criminals Got Away With That We Don't Know About?...... (Original Post) global1 May 2024 OP
My very same thought. And considering that tRUMP had Barr shut down stuff, just what else did Barr and others SWBTATTReg May 2024 #1
Jeffrey Epstein. Still being covered up. BComplex May 2024 #27
I do not believe either side wants anything at all to do with Epstein or the videos he obviously had as a life insurance LiberalArkie May 2024 #35
This loyalty stuff was illegal Johnny2X2X May 2024 #2
I bet Putin knows atreides1 May 2024 #3
Definitely WiVoter May 2024 #21
He may get away with selling America's secrets to our enemies.... spanone May 2024 #4
Well there was his inauguration funds that never got looked in to underpants May 2024 #5
Yep, from the get go. Instant corruption -- actually pre-instant -- KPN May 2024 #36
Post 10 too underpants May 2024 #38
I'd bet Saudi Arabia was involved in something. Funtatlaguy May 2024 #6
One of his first trips was to Saudi? Irish_Dem May 2024 #9
"Orb Day" is next Tuesday underpants May 2024 #13
That was the weirdest damn thing. Irish_Dem May 2024 #14
Quite a few somethings is my guess. Joinfortmill May 2024 #29
Exactly my thought. They were on a crime spree. Irish_Dem May 2024 #7
Tweet thread by Seth Abramson last week bucolic_frolic May 2024 #8
He never wore condoms. Irish_Dem May 2024 #11
Love Child Lottery bucolic_frolic May 2024 #15
I wonder if Trump pays child support for his illegitimate children? Irish_Dem May 2024 #17
Where'd Trump's Record Inauguration Spending Go? 'It's Inexplicable' underpants May 2024 #10
The Trump grift started right out of the gate. Irish_Dem May 2024 #12
$26M to do what? Arrange for Lee Greenwood to be the only performer? underpants May 2024 #18
It was all free money and the Trumps helped themselves to it. Irish_Dem May 2024 #19
Due to statute of limitations we know of many Johonny May 2024 #16
What we know about is a drop in the bucket. Irish_Dem May 2024 #20
Link to traitortrump's many uncharged crimes, expired and not... Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #24
How about treason? Trump aid the Russians to get installed triron May 2024 #22
Trump's connection to the mob was well known prior to the 2016 election but all we heard was the .... Botany May 2024 #23
Fraud is their business model jayschool2013 May 2024 #25
Largest criminal organization in history is too big to fail Ponietz May 2024 #26
Trump has been criming for decades. Guy is a scumbag. I hope someday we can erase him from our Presidential list. Joinfortmill May 2024 #28
Well, look at Kushners DoBW May 2024 #30
definitely fraud and conspiracy, at a minimum JoseBalow May 2024 #31
Wait until the election nears. They will have a scandal made up about Biden like they did with HRC. twodogsbarking May 2024 #32
Has anyone checked the gold at Fort Knox? louslobbs May 2024 #33
k+r ProudProgressiveNow May 2024 #34
They got away with stealing the 2016 election.... Sogo May 2024 #37
He has been transferring intelligence ThoughtCriminal May 2024 #39
This ! hydrolastic May 2024 #40
Jared's 2 Billion KentuckyWoman May 2024 #41

SWBTATTReg

(26,369 posts)
1. My very same thought. And considering that tRUMP had Barr shut down stuff, just what else did Barr and others
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:31 PM
May 2024

stop in its tracks?

BComplex

(9,948 posts)
27. Jeffrey Epstein. Still being covered up.
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:45 PM
May 2024

And whatever he had on the republicans (that Russia gave him) so that he could keep them in line.

LiberalArkie

(19,904 posts)
35. I do not believe either side wants anything at all to do with Epstein or the videos he obviously had as a life insurance
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:01 PM
May 2024

policy.

Johnny2X2X

(24,390 posts)
2. This loyalty stuff was illegal
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:33 PM
May 2024

Trump was basically committing subornation of perjury, for which Cohen went to prison for.

The White House was being run like a mafia family. Sickening. Our entire system of government had spent 240 years keeping this type of corruption out of the White Huse and here it was out in the open with Trump.

atreides1

(16,799 posts)
3. I bet Putin knows
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:34 PM
May 2024

The Russians have always been better than the West at digging up dirt on almost anyone!!!

spanone

(142,021 posts)
4. He may get away with selling America's secrets to our enemies....
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:35 PM
May 2024

This wasn't even covered up.

underpants

(197,044 posts)
5. Well there was his inauguration funds that never got looked in to
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:35 PM
May 2024

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump's businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former president's family in the process, according to the District of Columbia's attorney general.

Racine has said the committee misused nonprofit funds and coordinated with the hotel's management and members of the Trump family to arrange the events. He said one of the event's planners raised concerns about pricing with Trump, the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and Rick Gates, a top campaign official at the time.

Gates, a former Trump campaign aide who cooperated in the special counsel's Russia investigation, personally managed discussions with the hotel about using the space, including ballrooms and meeting rooms, the attorney general's office has said. In one instance, Gates contacted Ivanka Trump and told her that he was "a bit worried about the optics" of the committee paying such a high fee, Racine said.

Prosecutors say the committee could have hosted inaugural events at other venues either for free or for reduced costs but didn't consider those options.


https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123493/trump-inauguration-dc-hotel-lawsuit-settlement

KPN

(17,491 posts)
36. Yep, from the get go. Instant corruption -- actually pre-instant --
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:18 PM
May 2024

before even swearing in!

underpants

(197,044 posts)
38. Post 10 too
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:43 PM
May 2024

The committee’s tax filing showed that $26 million of the spending went to an event planning firm started in December by a friend of the First Lady.

underpants

(197,044 posts)
13. "Orb Day" is next Tuesday
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:42 PM
May 2024

It’s in my phone calendar

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Irish_Dem

(82,139 posts)
14. That was the weirdest damn thing.
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:43 PM
May 2024

I don't know what was going on.

But it was said that Trump had to keep being entertained in a dramatic way
or he got bored and caused trouble.

Irish_Dem

(82,139 posts)
7. Exactly my thought. They were on a crime spree.
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:37 PM
May 2024

What else did they do?

How much money did Trump steal from the US that we don't know about?

bucolic_frolic

(55,690 posts)
8. Tweet thread by Seth Abramson last week
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:37 PM
May 2024

intimated that more than 100 women were paid off over the years. He surely had some reason for attaching such a number to it.

Irish_Dem

(82,139 posts)
17. I wonder if Trump pays child support for his illegitimate children?
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:58 PM
May 2024

Or if he threatens the mothers to make them back down.

underpants

(197,044 posts)
10. Where'd Trump's Record Inauguration Spending Go? 'It's Inexplicable'
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:38 PM
May 2024

Last month, the committee that ran President Donald Trump’s inaugural festivities released basic details about its revenues and spending. Trump raised $107 million, almost twice the previous record, and spent $104 million. The committee’s tax filing showed that $26 million of the spending went to an event planning firm started in December by a friend of the First Lady.

We found one more thing that set this inauguration apart: Some of the donations are almost impossible to trace. As the Center for Responsive Politics reports, two “dark money” groups, which do not disclose their donors, gave $1 million each. Trump’s inaugural committee appears to have been the first to accept significant donations from dark money groups.


There are also, of course, many donors we do know about. Like other presidents, Trump raised millions from corporate contributions and wealthy individuals. The securities and investment industry contributed the most, nearly $15 million. Other top industries included real estate, casinos, oil and gas, and mining — each of which later benefited from various presidential initiatives and policies. The existence of a contribution, of course, doesn’t mean that’s the reason for a policy change.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-podcast-whered-trumps-record-inauguration-spending-go-its-inexplicable

underpants

(197,044 posts)
18. $26M to do what? Arrange for Lee Greenwood to be the only performer?
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:00 PM
May 2024

I don’t know who else may have performed.

See post#5 too. He held an event at his hotel and massively overpay himself.

Johonny

(26,510 posts)
16. Due to statute of limitations we know of many
Tue May 14, 2024, 12:56 PM
May 2024

We know he got away with a lot more business fraud in the civil trial. He never received criminal charges from those obvious crimes as well. He also got away with campaign finance violations. He also got away with 10 counts of obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. He also nearly got away with the current trials charges as the actual limitation passed but I believe there is an exemption due to covid shutdowns. This will likely be appealed if when he's found guilty, I think.

 

triron

(22,240 posts)
22. How about treason? Trump aid the Russians to get installed
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:25 PM
May 2024

As POTUS. And the argument that the US and Russia weren't in a declared war is absurd.

Botany

(77,757 posts)
23. Trump's connection to the mob was well known prior to the 2016 election but all we heard was the ....
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:27 PM
May 2024

…. Russian produced and backed HRC and her emails.



Trump’s mentor and mafia lawyer Roy Cohn.

jayschool2013

(2,611 posts)
25. Fraud is their business model
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:40 PM
May 2024

I often wonder if the Lard of Mierda Loco or the Trump Org has ever engaged in an above-board business deal of any kind.

I seriously doubt it.

Joinfortmill

(21,573 posts)
28. Trump has been criming for decades. Guy is a scumbag. I hope someday we can erase him from our Presidential list.
Tue May 14, 2024, 01:47 PM
May 2024

JoseBalow

(9,669 posts)
31. definitely fraud and conspiracy, at a minimum
Tue May 14, 2024, 02:31 PM
May 2024

I can honestly say that NOTHING would surprise me at this point. Hit squads, embezzlement, prostitution ring, you name it. The republican party is a criminal organization in the midst of an open crime spree, and drumpf & company are at the head of the criminal racket.

twodogsbarking

(19,237 posts)
32. Wait until the election nears. They will have a scandal made up about Biden like they did with HRC.
Tue May 14, 2024, 02:38 PM
May 2024

ThoughtCriminal

(14,746 posts)
39. He has been transferring intelligence
Tue May 14, 2024, 06:28 PM
May 2024

to Russia and other foreign governments in exchange for business deals, financial assistance, and political help.

He has been blackmailing a number of GOP Representatives and Senators with evidence of bribes, sex tapes, and other goodies obtained from Putin and others.

Oh, and the pee tape: probably real.

hydrolastic

(548 posts)
40. This !
Tue May 14, 2024, 11:21 PM
May 2024

It just seems so clear to me, the entire pattern. Someone checked out the top secret material. Trump has the system break down so its not returned, then he takes it from the White House. Do you think that the White House doesn't know what he took ? What about acomplicies ? Then he lets it leak that he has top secret documents. Just a brazen criminal the whole way.

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