Trump speaks at GOP midterm convention in Dallas
Trump claims he will send $5,000 to every citizen if Republicans hold on to control of Congress
Trump has claimed he will send every citizen $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the US House and Senate. He provided no details about where he would source this money from or the legality of the incentive.
“So if the Republicans win, you win with us … it will be called the Trump dividend,” the president said.
This is extremely illegal, but who’s going to stop him?
It’s only illegal if he actually intends to pay people.
He would never.
Nah bribery is illegal whether you actually pay or just promise to pay. However maybe it doesn’t matter, apparently the president can do whatever he wants and it will just be magically legal.
Always been true, provided they follow a simple axiom
Either have Congress, don’t be an asshole, or be incredibly charismatic, but you can’t be an unlikable asshole who’s team is not winning
Democrats had both House and Senate for the early part of his tenure and the Senate for the latter half
And while he was an asshole, I’d posit that to your average American he was one of the more anonymous twerps to hold the office up until everyone started lighting him on fire for either being too pro Israel or not pro Israel enough (which ended with him being supplanted by his VP as the party nominee)
I mean what he did when he refused to drop out and run a primary when every poll showed him losing to Trump was just so incredibly shitty.
At the end of his term he was absolutely an unlikeable asshole who made sure his party would lose.
I think we’re in agreement here, my point was he was pretty unremarkable until he made it much more known to the public at large how much of a flaming asshole he was at the back end of his term which is when his party started to throw him out the door, e.g. he violated the axiom at that point (and that itself says a lot, considering how much liberals love to make principled stands with their losers)
Also - isn’t it very roughly a trillion dollars?
It is, but just the act of saying this is wildly illegal.
In the GOP SCOTUS’s immunity ruling they declared that criminal law doesn’t apply to the president.
Oh yeah. I forgot about that shit. Jfc this reality sure is something.
Some dem pols (Jim Clyburn etc) have a prospective plan to stop the toxic GOP justices. It’s “packing” the court so it’s expanded vastly to 13. Of course that creates the razor-thin dem majority of 7-6. In theory - a dem president and congress could start work on that idiotic plan in 2029 and then actually do it that year. ~5 years later with a GOP president and congress - news could break that Sotomayor had cancer that she hid (aka "did not disclose). She didn’t want to resign and take one for the team.
The cancer got far worse. It’s has spread to her brain and soon enough she resigns. Within weeks it’s 7-6 for the GOP again! So it’s time to vote harder again!
Pack the court to an absurdist degree, simply amend 28 USC § 1 as follows:
make every US citizen a supreme court justice
Trump is protected by the “no one is going to do a goddamn thing about it” clause
Didn’t he say something about there not being any money available to the people because the US is in wartime? Funny how the money just pops up into existence like that.