“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.
They are trying to buy goodwill.
English is a funny language, I thought this was called a bribe but it’s just good will after all
This is not “buying goodwill”. This simply is corruption to gain obstruction of justice.
Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.
The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.
If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.
This will take decades to clean up if it’s possible at all.
It’s certainly possible, we’ve done it before.
Oh yeah, decades at a minimum. How long has it been since Reagan was president? We’re still dealing with the fallout from his administration all these years later. Granted, Reagan was just a bad president that could project the confidence of a competent one so he got a lot of leeway from the political establishment and I don’t think Trump enjoys the same amount of trust from our institutions, but he’s cranking the dial up to 11 in terms of trying to get away with shit that will change the country possibly forever and in an objectively bad way.
And the left will forever be trying to play catch-up as we waste consecutive terms undoing the harm done rather than pushing a progressive agenda.
This is what a failed state does.
Trump is a weak, criminal, traitor.
Ah yes…the bought and paid for “favours”.
Inauguration fund is the craziest this on earth. Why should anybody donate to the inauguration if not to bribe the new administration?
We desperately need to elect a president willing to set the standard of holding past presidents accountable for breaking the law.
Biden was a waste of four years and now it’s getting worse due to his refusal to act.
I think what we’re seeing today is the end result of pardoning Nixon.
Nixon resigned and got pardoned by his own VP who was almost certainly involved in the same crimes.
And Dems were facing a party split because they refused to hold anyone accountable and pivoted hard right with Jimmy Carter.
Which is a real brainfuck to a lot of people since Carter is so far left compared to the last 3 Dem candidates. At the time tho, Dem voters thought he was too conservative to be a Dem.
That’s how fucked things have gotten.
Biden was not a waste of four years. He did A LOT of good for this country, he just didn’t have great marketing for it.
Google has been losing every part of it’s antitrust cases I’ve been aware of since though. Is there one I’m unaware of?
Maybe they didn’t bend the knee enough.
Probably. That or Trump is happy to take the money and stiff them like he does contractors. Still though for an article claiming cases are being dropped writing multiple paragraphs about Google, who is not having they’re cases dropped (again please correct me if I’m wrong), this seems wildly dishonest. I know Zuckerberg had to testify recently about Facebooks trial too but afaik that’s not being dropped either?
revolution when?
Donvict is a thug.
Trump drops profits for corporations who funded his inauguration, too.
Now do something
