Stephanie Ruhle on megarich GOP donors, – she talked w/ many Wall Streeters who had said they were done w/ DT, were for De Santis, then Haley, now warming up to DT, even after verdict, because he's keeping score on exactly who's w/ him & if he wins "they're going to have a bat phone into the White House & get whatever the hell they want" – not just tax cuts
> In return, Trump pledged to reverse environmental protections and cut their taxes.
This is lousy. But is it surprising? Can you honestly say that every other candidate hasn't made similarly awful deals?
The answer matters, because if we spend all our energy on one dipshit candidate, we won't have much left in the tank to fix the underlying issues that enable the corruption.
@rbreich for someone who had a book ghost written for him called "art of the deal", that's a pretty lousy deal for him to make. Obviously, he thought $1 billion was a high number, but clearly didn't know the actual value for the oil companies.
@rbreich How is cheetos shakedown of oil execs not extortion? The gop works like a gangster cabal. They are also colluding with billionaires to enslave everyone to protect their riches.
@rbreich And people wonder why our debt rose $9 trillion under tfg. They’re not paying any taxes and we need to tax them according to their income. Stop this oligarch garbage.
White House's for sale or rent
Prez to let, 50 cents
No papers, no records, no bets
I ain't got no etiquettes
Ah, but, two hours of kissin' my broom
Buys you iron-clad tax loss n' no doom
I'm a man of grifts and no liens
King of the Sleaze
@rbreich
This is beyond corruption. This is treason, betrayal of the Nation with a promise to sell the office of POTUS to the highest bidder.
The fact that he's done it openly has, for some idiotic reason, made some view it as less insidious than if he was doing it secretly. It is NOT.
It does demonstrate his open hatred of this nation and it's people and his willingness to sell us to profit himself.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to think he hasn't sold us to Putin. Or anyone else.