Trump and Vance’s Oval Office announcement turned into a frightening rage spiral
www.independent.co.uk
This was already a strange policy. But then the anger in the room turned personal and at times genuinely frightening, writes Holly Baxter

Donald Trump has found a new way to make America great again: paying people to become professional snitches.

On Tuesday, the president and JD Vance unveiled a $25 million fraud whistleblower fund, under which Americans who provide tips leading to successful prosecutions would receive large financial rewards. Basically, you can rat on your enemies to the government for cash now — and, Trump added, he will be the personal arbiter on whether the fraud is real and how much money you get.

Just think of it as a big reality TV show, like when Oprah gives out the cars except it’s that guy at work you once fell out with and you get to send him to jail.

  • rbb36@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    How it happened…

    • Trump: We’re not grifting enough.
    • Miller: We’re grifting all the grift. Every scheme we know, in parallel.
    • Big Balls: We’re not smart enough. AI SI is smarter. It can think of more.
    • Trump: I already asked the Google.
    • Big Balls: We need a fraud-specialized training dataset.
    • Miller: Say we’ll pay them to tell us about fraud schemes.
    • Trump: I’m not paying them.
    • Miller: You never do. Just tell them you will.
    • Trump: Are you - a very bald and very short man - criticizing me?
    • Miller: No, sir. ‘mirin’.