Laws are for the little people

[Nevilledog]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-weaponized-government

It’s no secret that the second Trump administration is full of grifters who are thrilled to spend your tax dollars to enrich themselves. But you don’t need to be a member of Trump’s cabinet or even his inner circle to benefit from this brave new world.

Trump is comprehensively dismantling financial oversight, pardoning crypto scammers, and making sure cronies get sweet no-bid government contracts. At the same time all of this largesse to white collar criminals is going on, the administration is weaponizing the government against everyone else.

Just look at Trump’s early pardons and commutations. They send a message that financial crime is just fine. You can also think of them as a sort of wish fulfillment. Trump pardons people who were convicted for doing the same things he does routinely. He had to pay $25 million to settle with people who paid for his scammy “Trump University.” He exploited his own campaign donors by signing them up for recurring donations unless they located a tiny box to opt out. He falsified his financial records, inflating his net worth to obtain loans, for which he was fined $364 million.

Trevor Milton, convicted of defrauding people who invested in his electric and hydrogen vehicle company, is probably the best example of how easy it is to buy a pardon from Trump. Milton is the owner of Nikola, an overhyped vehicle company that leverages the name of a famous inventor and promised the moon, but was faking its technology to defraud investors.

Hmmm. Sound familiar?

*snip*

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump is a mob boss running a crime syndicate.

The goal is to haul in as much cash as possible in the next four years.
By any means possible.

[republianmushroom]

2. Been that way for a long time.

"No man is above the law", was just a myth. Created to placate the masses.