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Post by Rolling Thunder on Dec 20, 2016 11:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Vince524 on Dec 20, 2016 16:38:35 GMT -5
They should title it FOT for Friends of Trump and then it's all good, right?
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Post by robeiae on Dec 20, 2016 17:16:13 GMT -5
Pardon, but political campaigns do this as a matter of course: donate five grand, get a seat at the (literal) table. And they also had sweepstakes for donors, with the winner getting to ride the campaign bus, or get tickets to fly in to wherever and meet the candidate.
I find it unseemly, myself. But people repeatedly told me I was wrong when I complained about the latter such practices by Obama, then by Romney.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Dec 20, 2016 18:32:15 GMT -5
In those examples, where did the money go? In this case the funds appear to be going into Trump's coffers.
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Post by robeiae on Dec 21, 2016 7:53:57 GMT -5
Well, Obama as President participated in a bunch of fundraisers for the DNC. Previous Presidents did the same for their parties. Again, those five grand a plate dinners or the like were basically built on this model: pay us five grand, get to meet the President. Honestly, it's essentially how I got to meet a bunch of the DLC big shots many moons ago, when my parents "donated" to get tickets to Chuck Robb's inaugural ball in Richmond. Also, I got to meet Karl Rove, Scalia, and others from donating to orgs like Heritage and Cato.
From what I'm seeing of the Trump ones, the moneys aren't going directly into Trump's coffers. The org his sons set up is probably geared towards advancing Trump's agenda, whatever that may be, one way or another, but it's not going over any new ground here.
The Kuwaiti deal may be graft, however. But making it a constitutional violation is a stretch, given what's been allowed in the past.
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