“Corporations facing federal lawsuits and investigations aren’t giving millions to Trump’s inauguration out of the kindness of their hearts. They are trying to buy goodwill.”
An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, an indication that companies’ attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off.
In the new analysis, the watchdog group Public Citizen cross-references FEC data released Sunday with its own Corporate Enforcement Tracker, which documents companies facing federal cases for alleged wrongdoing.
Public Citizen found that corporations facing federal investigations or enforcement lawsuits donated a combined $50 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Trump raised a record sum of $239 million for his second inauguration, the new FEC filings show.
How does this not break our bribery laws?
It does. But the DOJ is corrupt so… ?
Laws lol you haven’t noticed that the wealthy and powerful have no laws yet……
SCROTUS said President is above laws.
That’s the neat part: it does!
Law? There is no law in the U.S. until, by some miracle, we get rid of Cheeto Chimp and all the rest at the top.
IMO: that’s not going to happen. Not even in '28.
So you are here on Lemmy systems creating messages saying nothing will happen, not even for 4 years, And that you think there is no law at all. So you think you can just go rob banks and tamper with drugs on the shelf of stores and do anything you want because you believe everything you read off social machine systems. That you live in an alternate reality induced by Lemmy meme consumption and anything you think is the one perfect understanding of the world.
You are unable to even distinguish reality from ChatGPT / Large Language Model Systems. You really need to try and come to terms with the Kremlin’s “War Against Reality” that has taken place on electric media machines, including Lemmy media platform, here is a year 2014 story:
“Russia and the Menace of Unreality”
“How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare”
By Peter Pomerantsev
September 9, 2014
“At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
MORE HERE: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/
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“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science, 1974