Emoluments NOW!

[Mr.Bee]

[malaise]

1. Adding this- Very disturbing': Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/trump-foreign-gifts-plane-gulf-states

Former White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian that Donald Trump’s receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are “unprecedented”, as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations with characteristic Trumpian excess.

The openness to foreign largesse was on full display this week as the US president was feted in the Gulf states during his first major diplomatic trip abroad this term, inking deals he claimed were worth trillions of dollars and pumping local leaders for investments as he says he remakes US foreign policy to prioritise “America first” – putting aside concerns of human rights or international law for the bottom line of American businesses and taxpayers.

But quite often, the bottom line also has benefited Trump himself. His family’s wealth has ballooned by more than $3bn, according to press estimates, and the reported benefits from cryptocurrencies and other investment deals such as plans for new Trump-branded family properties may be far larger. Deals for billions more have been inked by business associates close to Trump, meaning that their political support for the White House can translate into lucrative contracts abroad.

[stollen]

4. Trump actually beats out Clarence Thomas

for payoffs. Is this a competition?

At least have the decency to end annual ethics training for "worker bees" at the DoD.

[malaise]

6. Sure looks so

Rec

[Walleye]

2. And what was Hunter Biden's crime again?

This is more than an ethical question. This is constitutional. It’s also national security. It’s obvious Trump cares more about his business than he ever did about the United States.

[Mr.Bee]

3. He had a LAPTOP!!

LAPTOP I Tell You!!

[Walleye]

5. And a large dick. They can't tolerate that.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Remember the righteous outrage of The Right when Clinton "rented" the Lincoln Bedroom to a donor?

Trump has eclipsed that "crime" by a thousand-fold, yet we are not seeing the saturation coverage today that we saw of the Clinton Scandals".

[Brainfodder]

8. More trial starts etc. etc. than questions really?

That is some deep red hands you got there bud!

[Mr.Bee]

9. Now We Know

why Qatar 'gave' the 747 Flying Palace to DarnOld Trump:
They swindled him and he bought it.
They needed to get rid of it because the cost of upkeep and maintenance on it was bleeding their government dry.
Now it can bleed our government dry.