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  Chumpknuckle is asstrash
context: The Saudis weren't handing over billions because they liked trump's personality. What did donald, Jared, and Mnuchin, hand over to the Saudis for $3,000,000,000 +???
  The former president, his thin man consigliere, and the former Treasury Secretary, received over $3 billion for what exactly? Any other government employee doing this would be under a fucking microscope, if not arrested, and rightfully so.
  And guess what? When someone pays you to do favors that makes you their agent. These individuals should never have access to national security clearance again, and this is why they never should have had it to begin with. >
  
  
  The former president, his thin man consigliere, and the former Treasury Secretary, received over $3 billion for what exactly?
  
  For services rendered. 
  Trump opened the advanced weapons floodgate for Saudi Arabia and he helped MBS with his war against Yemen. Trump and Jared also gave Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman the green light to kill Jamal Khashoggi  and helped cover up the crime. Remember when Trump said Khashoggi had just gone into hiding, and then changed his story to say some terrorists killed Khashoggi, and then he said nobody knows what happened to Khashoggi?  That was a cover up of the murder.  
  Jared also leaked the names of the opposition in the Royal Family against Prince Bone Saw from a classified Presidential Daily Briefing, and MBS promptly rounded his opponents up and placed them in house arrest. >
  
  And Biden also confirmed immunity, so I wonder what exactly SA has on the USA that we capitulate so much to them >
  
  
  I wonder what exactly SA has on the USA that we capitulate so much to them
  
  Come on now let’s not be naive. They have fuck tons of money and an insatiable thirst for endless bombing campaigns. Anyone with those attributes is welcome here.
  The MIC also gets to double dip on these kinds of allies: ‘oh no, look things are so dangerous over there in the Middle East, such a shame, better increase that defense funding.’ Rinse, repeat. >
  
  They sell oil in USD ONLY. >
  
  Most countries in the middle east peg their currency to the US dollar.. I’ve always believed this is one major factor in other countries allowing the US military to set up forever bases. >
  
  This is why we are able to run massive deficits without much inflation.  The massive demand for U.S. dollars those countries generate through USD denominated oil sales means there is always someone looking to purchase our latest printing press run. >
  
  Republicans:  "We will get to the bottom of this if we have to examine every single subdirectory on Hunter Biden's C:/ drive. >
  
  Maybe they should contact James Woods, since he likes tweeting pictures of Hunter’s C drive. >
  
  the gold tournament was a mechanism to transfer vast amounts of money. >
  
  What did I miss?
  Wasn't the $2B Kushner got enough? >
  
  Let's hope the DOJ is investigating >
  
  The DOJ is compromised. It will never move against one of owner class unless that individual is threatening the rest of the owner class. >
  
  Uhhh, do you know who Biden put in charge of the DoJ? >
  
  Merrick Garland, the snubbed Obama supreme court nominee who was initially on McConnell's list of pre-approved nominees. Garland has the McConnell seal of approval. He will do nothing. >
  
  The guy who mcconnel opposed from even being brought up to vote?
  Yeah, no bud >
  
  I think you've confused McConnell's refusal of anything less than total domination as defeat. McConnell had already won by the time Obama nominated Garland. Everything else was just icing on the cake. We'll know in the next two years if Garland proves me wrong. I hope he does. >
  
  Donald Trump has vast business interests with Saudi Arabia:
  
  Trump’s business relationships with the Saudi government — and rich Saudi business executives — go back to at least the 1990s. In Trump’s hard times, a Saudi prince bought a superyacht and hotel from him. The Saudi government paid him $4.5 million for an apartment near the United Nations.
  Business from Saudi-connected customers continued to be important after Trump won the presidency. Saudi lobbyists spent $270,000 last year to reserve rooms at Trump’s hotel in Washington. Just this year, Trump’s hotels in New York and Chicago reported significant upticks in bookings from Saudi visitors.
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  “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,” Trump told a crowd at an Alabama campaign rally in 2015. “Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” >
  
  Not just any Saudi.  I believe the purchaser of said yacht was Khashoggi's uncle Adnan.  Trump probably felt like he got screwed in the deal and held a grudge. >
  
  Knowing Trump it's possible, but it's not like Jamal and the Iran-Contra arms dealer Adnan were particularly close near the end. 
  Jamal had turned from supporting democracy through reform (which wasn't realistic so was tolerated) to explicitly pro-democratic (i.e., revolutionary). On the other hand, this is what caused the monarchy that Adnan supported to kill Jamal. Meanwhile Jamal was known for criticizing Adnan's lifestyle.
  I believe Trump simply hates anti-authoritarians and was happy to do a dictator a favor in an attempt to gain acceptance by his heroes. Oh, and money. >
  
  I'm not shocked... They also paid off Jared kushner. >
  
  
  They also paid off Jared kushner.
  
  For services rendered. 
  He gave Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman cover for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and then helped to cover up the crime with the help of Trump. Jared also leaked the names of the opposition in the Royal Family against Prince Bone Saw from a classified Presidential Daily Briefing, and MBS promptly rounded his opponents up and placed them in house arrest.  
  In return, MBS pressured Qatar into giving him an unheard of $1 billion pre-paid 99 year lease on his disastrous 666 5th ave building. Jared then got the $2 billion payout to his "Venture Capital" fund even though Jared has never been a venture capitalist and knows nothing about running a fund. >
  
  Can you imagine the pain you would carry, if you were just human, in knowing your thirst for money was directly tied to other humans being murdered?
  It’s just another day for kushner. >
  
  Fun fact, Kushner goes through painstaking lengths to observe Sabbath. He thinks his God is ok with everything he does. >
  
  Think he’s going to be surprised how much his God actually does care. >
  
  Investigation, investigation, investigation, investigation! When the actual fuck are we gonna see some Goddamn consequences!? >
  
  Garland is failing America daily. >
  
  Which means Biden is as well, at least if you assume it's biden's job to enforce the law. But that's not what Biden was elected to do. Biden ran on ignoring the problem of republican terrorism. He wouldn't even acknowledge trump. He ran on forgetting everything and sweeping it under the rug. It's why he demanded republican involvement in the infrastructure bill. It's why he was out there campaigning with mcconnell to celebrate "bipartisanship." It's why he hasn't done anything to really address republican terrorism--doing so would go against one of his key campaign promises. People voted for Biden in the primaries because of his passive, conciliatory approach, so he's just giving the people what they want. In which case, you could argue they are succeeding, not failing. >
  
  
  Biden ran on ignoring the problem of republican terrorism. 
  
  Please cite any bit of fact where "Biden ran on ignoring the problem of republican terrorism." >
  
  He branded himself as Mr. "reach across the aisle". He wants to work with the party that claims with pride that they are all domestic terrorists. >
  
  Oooh... that's some "gOtChA" you have there. A real smoking gun that "Biden ran on ignoring the problem of republican terrorism." 
  Every president needs to work with the other party, or else nothing gets done. It's called compromise and just because Republicans have abandoned it, doesn't mean we don't need to try to use it when appropriate. >
  
  Hoo boy. You got real sassy over that one. I guess we're not allowed to criticize Biden. My bad. He's actually perfect. No notes. >
  
  I mean, it seems like you're oblivious to the fact that compromise is, and always has been, the only way to get things done in government. Or anywhere that involves multiple people with very different opinions and how to move forward on anything. 
  It's not a "gotcha" for him to suggest he's open to compromise. It's the way the government is supposed to work. >
  
  The bribe was paid right in front of our noses. I’m no national security expert and it was plain to me that the gold tournament was a mechanism to transfer vast amounts of money. >
  
  "The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince MBS actually owns almost all of LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN. >
  
  Hasn’t the Saudi sovereign fund ownership of LIV been known since the inception? I mean Greg Norman has probably been asked about Kashoggi every day since he sold out. Where else would they have billions to throw at players and courses? >
  
  Every single one of those golfers who left the PGA to go to the LIV tour took 9-11 blood money. >
  
  i would probably take it too.  i'm pretty patriotic but a couple of mid-level golfers aren't going to shit one way or the other on the levers of power between a corrupt administration and the saudi regime.  
  jared kushner committed crimes against humanity on live TV during covid and no one is doing shit. >
  
  Guy was known to be messaging MBS through WhatsApp while working for the president, had an alarming amount of issues with getting security clearance and nothing was ever really done. Not astonishing but offensive >
  
  All this shit makes me want to get lost on the Appalachian Trail for about 10 years. >
  
  That didn’t work out so well for Mark Sanford. >
  
  Ruining the little integrity left in he Unites States: Not arresting Donald Trump. >
  
  Trump broke the law so let's investigate!  There won't be any punishment because, the entire government won't touch him!  Oh well...  trump broke the law so let's investigate!  There won't be any punishment!  Oh well...  Trump broke the law let's investigate! >
  
  You read my mind. Wash, rinse, repeat. Make it end. >
  
  Yet another investigation that will take so long that Trump will die of old age before he ever gets held accountable. >
  
  I'm sure James Comer and his Oversight and Accountability Committee will get on that right away. >
  
  "We're going to activate oversight over all Congress, but by party affiliation and in alphabetical order." - Comer, basically. >
  
  I have suspicions that this arrangement was every bit as legit as Trump's normal business practices. 
  /s >
  
  That /s is unnecessary. You are exactly right >
  
  Jeez. So many investigations. I wonder if we’ll ever find out if this guy is a dangerous fraud. >
  
  For a billionaire, Trump is the most money grubbing person alive. >
  
  Just lock him up already. >
  
  No I was talking about Donald trump. >
  
  Regular people get arrested for crimes. They sit in jail while the prosecution makes its case. 
  Rich people get years of investigations. >
  
  He sold the Saudis Israel nuke secrets for $2Billon, that is the empty top secret envelopes found at Mar-a-Largo, why else would the Saudis give Jared $2Billion. Giving Jared $2Billon is like giving a monkey a loaded pistol, both have no experience handling one nor should they. >
  
  Is it pronounced "54 Golf", with Roman numerals, or is it "Liv Golf"? >
  
  It’s Roman numerals for 54 as in they play 54 holes as opposed to pga tour’s 72. However most everyone refers to it as “liv” >
  
  I thought it was 45 spelt backwards, a sly nod to the asshole who became the 45th POTUS. >
  
  I'm sure the House Ethics Committee starring Jim "Ethical" Jordan will get right on that. >
  
  It will eventually come
  Out, Trump is a snake and I already know that Trump asked the Saudis to announce an oil production announcement around 4-5 weeks before this past November election cycle. Trump is a conman. It’s a guarantee he did something shady with the Crown Prince and the rest of the filthy animals. >
  
  Hooray another investigation that will uncover obvious wrongdoings with zero consequences >
  
  Nothing will come of it. Guaranteed >
  
  So another 10 years of investigation? >
  
  Republicans: We'd love to, but we heard a rumor that AOC didn't report all her tips while she was a barkeep, and we don't have the resources to investigate both. >
  
  Trump paying his debts...     
  To America? Naw  
  To China and Saudis? Yes, my Masters! >
  
  Republican led house to run interferance and claim no wrong doing. >
  
  Yeah, Congress will get right on that. >
  
  Hard to believe anyone still thinks he will be held accountable for anything. >
  
  Sadly there isn't a single penis involved in those transactions, so the GOP will have little interest. >
  
  Tf is an investigation gonna do? Trump’s probably the most “investigated” man in history and no law enforcement mechanism has the fortitude to indict. >
  
  He should be investigated for every crime he did and brags about but he’ll have a hissy fit so he should be allowed to do whatever he wants. >
  
  I would love to see an investigation into this odd group of businesses Trump owned. Beauty pageants, casinos, golf courses and hotels. Anybody else see anything fishy? I shouldn't have to say anything else. >
  
  For anyone wondering, this is how the mafia does money laundering. >
  
  I just can't get invested in yet another investigation into something he'll never be held accountable for. >
  
  Is there anything legal that this traitorous ex-president fuck has done? >
  
  Yeah, do that. Investigate. Find shit. Then do . . What, exactly?
    This fucker needs to be in jail already >
  
  He should already be in jail for dozens of reasons. Investigation is pointless when there's no enforcement. >
  
  Waste of time. Trump is sadly untouchable >
  
  Yh. It’s the same every year with him getting impeached, etc >
  
  Everything he did as president was to enrich the loathsome Saudis and himself. >
  
  Ain’t nothing gonna happen >
  
  This is like a bad tv series that should’ve ended 4 seasons ago. >
  
  I'm so sick of investigations. None of them go anywhere. He is never going to be held accountable, so stop the theatrics. >
  
  Hope Greg didn’t blow all his new money yet… >
  
  What’s the point? We’ll hear news stories and read articles about it for a couple weeks, move on, then repeat the same thing. Whether Democrats or Republicans are in power this country does not hold anyone with money accountable for their crimes. Along with the rest of the country, I am tired of hearing about this orange imbecile so please, Garland, do your damn job and indict the criminal or move on. >
  
  What is the point when they find all the evidence they need and still do nothing about it? Presidents are untouchable unfortunately. >
  
  What is the point when they find all the evidence they need and still do nothing about it? Presidents are untouchable unfortunately. >
  
  Why would his corruption stop when literally NOTHING he has done in the past has gotten him in trouble? >
  
  By GOP Benghazi metrics, it would warrant 500 investigations over a time span of 1000 years. >
  
  There has been a variation of this type of headline on the first few posts of Reddit news since 2016. I’m tired. >
  
  I’m sure it will
  Lead to something that stinks.   You got em this time.   For real!   We believe you. >
  
  Who would have guessed Saudi Arabia would go to that much trouble to buy an orange turd!! >
  
  Can the trump crowd and the biden crowd just investigate each other into irrelevance/non existence? >
  
  But the republicans control the house. They won’t act. I sure hope the DOJ is staffed. The most amazing thing about investigating Hunter Biden is not concurrently investigating all trumps children and their spouses. >
  
  He will never see any repercussions before he is dead so investigate all you want but know that it will never happen >
  
  Never ending investigations with zero convictions. Wake up people. >
  
  Yeah I'm sure Merrick Garland will get right on that. >
  
  Stop thinking left and right and start thinking about rich and poor, top and bottom… it’s a big club for rich guys that doesn’t include most of us. Two tiers have always existed and rich guys don’t go to jail in America! >
  
  I think this is traitors to democracy and foreign agents vs the US. Not saying rich vs poor isn’t an issue but don’t act like trump isn’t a traitor and national security threat because he’s part of the rich guys club. >
  
  Glad to hear Donald wasn't just giving state secrets away for free.   Now some would probably call him a traitor, but its not like he wasn't getting paid, that's just capitalism. >
  
  Who's side is Garland on? >
  
  Federalist Society >
  
  Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin to be removed, per the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency that has worked closely with the FBI.
  In 2014, Shokin had investigated Burisma for money laundering and tax irregularities, per USA TODAY.
  The probe focused on 2010-12, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
  Hunter Biden — who joined the board in 2014 and served on it until early 2019 — was not the subject of the investigation.
  10/13/2022: The head of Burisma Holdings, the energy company on which Hunter Biden served on the board, has been indicted by Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General for money laundering and corruption, according to Ukrainian MP Alexander Dubinsky. Strange behavior IF they had been pressured by the VP to go easy on Burisma, a VP who in 2 months would be POTUS who would begin massive aid the Ukraine. Obama officials met with Ukrainian officials in 2015 to urge them to cooperate in the prosecution of Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky as the Obama administration sought to clamp down on corruption rampant among Ukrainian oligarchs. That's the same year Trump and other Republicans have alleged Biden was trying to help Burisma. >
  
  So, everyone agrees that he'll never be held accountable by the US justice system, right? Here's a radical idea, vigilante justice. >
  
  Oh boy. Another investigation. >
  
  We get something like this once a month. >
  
  What’s the point? >
  
  everything is so that he does not go to the elections of 24 >
  
  Who even cares anymore. He's still free, two years after attempting a coup. He'll never be brought to justice by the US because he's rich, he's white and he's male.
  And what, I'm supposed to believe that this is going to be the thing that 'brings him down'? >
  
  He did it ! Stop investigating and lock up this old sack of potatoes . It’s that simple !!!! >
  
  This could get interesting... >
  
  I enjoy how people pretend that this orange shit-stain will ever get what he deserves because it makes them happy for a moment. >
  
  Going after Saudi money would open a Pandora's box. The Saudis were protected for decades over 9/11 by multiple presidents and members of  Congress. Investigating trump would lead to investigating themselves. >
  
  Who woulda thought that even evil people play golf.  Odd.  Golf courses in hell?  LOL. >
  
  Why waste the money?  We have him and Biden both mishandling classified documents, and neither of them have been arrested or charged with anything.  It's obvious the law doesn't apply to them. >
  
  How do you know when the Biden document scandal isn’t going away..impeach Trump 3.0 >
  
  What scandal?  Dude self reported, didn't lie about hundreds of documents and didn't have to be raided to get them back. >
  
  An integral part of that scandal is the narrative that reporting and cooperating in 2023 means the taking and keeping for four years doesn’t count…which would be great news for any criminal who could avoid responsibility for their crime by turning themselves in after four years and cooperating. >
  
  What crime has Biden committed regarding these documents? >
  
  Taking them and keeping them, and keeping them in an unsecured location for four years. >
  
  Ok. So no conditions or intent required for a crime? Just possession of these documents is a crime? I'm all for believing you and it should be pretty easy so please cite the specific law and statute which you believe Biden to have violated. >
  
  18 U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material >
  
  
  ... knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location... >
  
  By a man who takes classified documents very seriously and had forty years experience doing so, so he would know what documents he had, and would return those documents when he was done with them. That proves that the only way he would have taken these documents and retained them for four years would be by doing it knowingly. >
  
  Or someone forgot about some document in amongst the thousands of other documents they handled and had stored away.
  You need actual proof, like evidence that he knew he was in possession of those documents without authority and had intent to retain them at an unauthorized location.
  If possession alone was enough the law would be drafted to say that. >
  
  Not surprised he’s feeding into them >
  
  Congress won’t investigate this. They are most interested ~~looking at Hunter Biden’s dick~~ Hunters laptop than anything involving investigating Trump >
  
  Well, how else is he supposed to sell all those US secrets he hoarded. >
  
  Another thing for authorities to do absolutely nothing about. >
  
  Narrator: and nothing happened. >
  
  Sigh. Add it to the pile. 😠————> >
  
  Another crime that tRump will get away with! >
  
  Fat pathetic fuck! >
  
  A US president taking millions from a fund directed by a foreign dictator.
  Okay, so what else is new.
  Right Repubs?
  This is a little like FDR getting beachfront property donated by the Nazi Gov't.
  Right Repubs? >
  
  Investigation would be a waste of resources, nothing ever happens to Trump when he commits crimes anyways. >
  
  What, that'll be his 8th separate ongoing investigation? 
  You'd think with so many  people would actually admit his really is a failure. >
  
  Because the previous investigations are over? At this rate he could just make new convicting evidence each week in order to delay any prosecution indefinitely, or at least until he can escape. >
  
  But, but, but “America first.” >
  
  The grift is the game folks. Desperation, extortion, and quick payouts are the caddies, irons, and golf balls hiding the truth. 
  Fore! Fore!! FORE!!! Move aside plebs!!!
  Pray tell how love prevails in this unending darkness. >
  
  God, his form is so bad >
  
  So let me get this right, a private citizen can invest monies to whatever they want but risk being investigated by the government, however the very government can turn around & use tax payers monies to payoff other countries to get what they want. Do I have that close? >
  
  they can call for investigations all they want into this but we all know nothing's going to come of it >
  
  It really bums me out that Biden picked up the ball and kept kicking it down the road, Jamal Khashoggi will never get justice. >
  
  What's the point of investigating this when we all know that Trump won't suffer any consequences? >
  
  We need a live tracker for the number of investigations involving Trump. >
  
  If Trump became a Saudi Prince his worshippers would wear the gear in solidarity >
  
  They've done everything but order to check the size of his pen**. Just go for that next. >
  
  You'd think Trump being financially married to SA would've been a deal breaker for his cult at any point the last decade but no, they'll overlook literally everything in the name of their orange god.
  They fell in love with a coastal elite who would let them starve if it made him a nickel, or even just for fun, and they were and still are willing to compromise everything in their life to stay the course.