'Their first instinct was to loot': how Trump's acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“That’s the tactic they use,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, pondering whether Donald Trump might attach his name to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated and then you pull the trigger.”

Whitehouse was sitting in his Senate office and speaking to the Guardian at 11am on Thursday 18 December. Two hours later, his words proved prophetic. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, announced on X that the Kennedy Center board had “voted unanimously” to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center.

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In November Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Senate environment and public works (EPW) committee, launched a formal investigation into allegations of widespread cronyism, financial mismanagement and corruption at what he describes as a “secular temple to the arts”.

Democrats on the committee said they obtained documents that suggest the national cultural centre is being operated as a “slush fund and private club for Trump’s friends and political allies”, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and a significant deviation from its statutory mission.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/first-instinct-loot-trump-acolytes-160044171.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. The entire US government is Trump's slush fund.

And for his rich pals.

[Volaris]

2. Yep this entire administration is a fuckin bank heist top to bottom.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Greatest heist in US history.

[yellow dahlia]

4. A non-stop crime spree.

Sheldon Whitehouse unearthing the malfeasances and misdeeds and thievery, as is his wont.

[Joinfortmill]

5. He needs to be tried, convicted and imprisoned.

I don't give a f*ck if he is the President. And, as for that, I highly doubt he was legitimately elected.

[Bluetus]

7. That is why the Tina Peters thing is important.

The SCOTUS made Trump immune from FEDERAL prosecution. And the absurdity of the unlimited pardon privilege means Trump can pardon anybody for FEDERAL crimes. Put those two together and Trump can SELL PARDONS for millions of dollars, which is exactly what he is doing.

But many people from this mob are also committing felonies at the state levels. States need to VIGOROUSLY prosecute these. Trump's fellow gangsters need to see some of their colleagues in state prisons for years. That will change their outlook. It won't help us with the Kennedy Center, but it will slow down some of the other crimes.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Indeed.

And, until New York basically says that they will arrest and try that orange gibbon the second he steps foot into the state, he will laugh all the way to the afterlife.

We cannot let him do that. We cannot let any of them do that.

[BeneteauBum]

6. Why am I not surprised?

Any scam to make money…..
Peace ☮️