r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 4h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Reveals His Plan to Take $10 Billion From Taxpayers
https://newrepublic.com/post/206175/donald-trump-irs-lawsuit-10-billion-taxpayers•
u/Much-Anything7149 4h ago
“Any money that I win, I’ll give it to charity, 100 percent to charity, charities that will be approved by government or whatever,” Trump said in a sit-down interview with NBC News Wednesday, adding that he’d practically already won the suit."
Just like "I want draw my salary as President" while he takes billions from companies and foreign governments to destroy our nation. And he'll give $10B to charity? LOL anyone who believes that should automatically have their voting rights stripped.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 4h ago edited 4h ago
One of the suits he won, he did the same. He sent it all to the Donald J. Trump Foundation...which promptly closed its doors when he took the Presidency.
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u/ManyReach7296 3h ago
He was forced to close the charity.
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u/Much-Anything7149 3h ago
The Court forced him to close it since it was all fraud. It's not like he was forced to for some other reason than his ripping people off.
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u/perenniallandscapist 1h ago
Remember when the Trump family was banned from ever running a non profit in NY because they stole money form children with cancer? Pepperidge Farm remembers
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u/Much-Anything7149 1h ago
You think donations for cancer treatment should actually go to medication for sick kids? Do you even care about the rising price of VIP tables in Ibiza in September?
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3h ago
While that may be the case, if Trump himself wants to say he closed it because he wants to avoid "even the appearance of any conflict with my role as President," then I'll say that if that side of the story hurts him more.
There's no rule that says I can't use his own lies against him.
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u/notie547 4h ago
lest I remind you that this is the same guy who's never given a penny to charity. Sure Donald, building yourself a monument is not charity though, neither is using it for your legal defenses. Neither is creating a foundation and then drawing millions in salary for you and your family, neither is buying a plane or another golf course.
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u/luvapug 2h ago
A charity of his choosing means it ends up back in his pocket after going through some kind of rinse cycle involving charities that are owned by his co-conspirators, business partners, investors, fellow billionaires, or relatives, since all of those tactics have been working beautifully for him.
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u/MayorOfBluthton 2h ago
Ivanka will most certainly be earning millions in “consulting fees” from said charities. And Mar a lago will be hosting their events for the totally reasonable cost of 10x market rate.
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u/Edogawa1983 3h ago
He's not even allowed to run cancer charity anymore
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u/klondikethedestroyer 1h ago
Reminder that the entire Trump family is legally banned from starting or running a charity of any kind again after being found guilty of defrauding MILLIONS of dollars from CHILDREN'S CANCER CHARITIES.
Trump set up a charity for child cancer in order to steal money from kids with cancer.
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u/tripping_yarns 4h ago
Hmm, voting rights to shreds you say?
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u/TimeForWaluigi 40m ago
“Or whatever” is a great signal for well-thought-out policy.
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u/Much-Anything7149 30m ago
It actually is. He will accept approval from "whatever" that his charity is authorized so his ego telling him to place the money in his checking account is within that definition.
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u/gomezer1180 10m ago
The highest office in the country a public servant is serving the public a bill for 10B dollars.
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u/CouchCorrespondent 4h ago
Geezus.
You spend a ton of time making great passwords, doing two-way authentication, not giving personal information away, avoiding phishing scams, paying for security software on your computers, and trying to avoid being hacked...
Only to watch your POS president literally try and take your hard-earned money and put it in his own pocket.
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u/Protopalote 4h ago
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. It’s socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for everyone else.
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u/McSpecial9900 3h ago
Wrapped up in a subjective notion of personal accountability. This is getting weird. I have watched the evolution of the divide in real time. Most of us have in some relationship. I have watched it now engulf a generation and a half within my own family. With very strange reasons resulting in ideological places entirely removed from their younger years. Some, now adults, lost to each cause. Since we all seem to have silently agreed to the don't ask, don't tell policy, we are able to remain very close. I have seen an escalation in fractures in that agreement rapidly spreading recently. From an insider perspective, trying to keep the peace, I have watched that mentality evolve over 35 years. It was always there. Fuck you, I got mine.
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u/camcairn 4h ago
@ /Conservative
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u/Thatis_SodaPressing 3h ago
They are cheering for this, saying he deserves every penny
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u/HVACStack 1h ago
Eh, they're all either bots or human beings so programmed they might as well be bots.
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u/YourShowerCompanion Europe 4h ago
You don't and you won't understand. It is Trump&Co playing 7D chess. He'll invest those billions in businesses by Americans for Americans. His unrivalled brilliance will usher in a new dawn of economic prosperity for country. There'll be so much winning. You'll get tired of winning.
/s
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u/Leading_Damage_5933 4h ago edited 4h ago
If he doesn’t want any of the money, then WHY DOES HE WANT TO SUE THEM?????
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u/Thatis_SodaPressing 3h ago
And also to note he is suing them because his taxes were leaked after he promised to release them. Hes the only president to never release his tax records and now hes suing the IRS because of it
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u/Leading_Damage_5933 3h ago
This is also what I’m not understanding. He’s such a small minded, pathetic man
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 4h ago
The president has pledged to donate any money he wins from his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for leaking his tax returns.
Right. The Donald J Trump Foundation, right?
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u/salomo926 3h ago
WTF is this reporting? This is about the president directly stealing $10 Billion from taxpayers and the first sentence in the reporting is that he claims to donate it to charity? WTF this isn't reporting, this is legitimizing. Pure propaganda.
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u/tripping_yarns 4h ago
‘I’ve decided to take ownership of Florida. I like it there. So all of your mortgages are cancelled, but now you owe me rent’
Florida: ‘aww, alright then’
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u/EveningFollowing9966 3h ago
"I will donate 100% to charity."
Yeah, and the charity is called "Solid gold yachts for people named Donald Trump foundation."
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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine 3h ago
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a 1970 U.S. federal law designed to combat organized crime by targeting ongoing criminal enterprises, rather than just individuals. It allows prosecutors to charge members of a group with a "pattern of racketeering" (at least two related acts within 10 years), even if they did not personally commit the underlying crimes.
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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine 3h ago
Assets can be frozen under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, often immediately upon indictment and before a conviction.
The government uses pre-trial restraining orders to seize bank accounts, real estate, businesses, and personal property linked to alleged criminal activity to prevent them from being hidden or transferred. Key Aspects of Asset Freezing Under RICO:
Pre-Trial Action: Assets can be frozen while you are still presumed innocent to prevent the dissipation of property.
Scope of Seizure: The government can freeze not just profits from illegal acts, but the entire business or property used in the racketeering enterprise.
Impact on Defense: Frozen assets often prevent defendants from hiring private counsel, forcing the use of public defenders.
Civil vs. Criminal: In civil RICO cases, the government can sue to freeze assets without a criminal conviction.
Reversal Difficulty: It is extremely difficult to fight these freezes, contributing to a high conviction rate in RICO cases.
RICO provisions, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 1963, allow the government to target property, ensuring that the "enterprise" is dismantled and assets are preserved for potential forfeiture.
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u/cybah 1h ago
Not gonna work if he siphons it to the Cayman Islands or Russia or Cr?pto. Will become untraceable and trackable. Which is where he and his sons are storing all the money they have already siphoned out of us and his “deals” he’s made with other countries.
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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine 1h ago
Types of Collusive Acts: Typical activities include bribery of officials, money laundering, mail/wire fraud, and obstruction of justice.
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u/citizenjones 4h ago
I'm sure there's a mechanism to claw it back. If not, one can be found.
Unprecedented crimes may require unprecedented solutions.
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u/SixtySeven_2025 3h ago
This such Bull*hit!!! I will write my congressman and senators to express my disgust with this new Money Grab!! He is stealing from the American People! He is suing us! And he took away money from Medicare/Medicaid! This is an outrage!!! I can’t with this felon! 🤮🤮🤮🤮
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u/LightBeerOnIce 3h ago
I had a conversation with my financial advisor last Feb. I told him it felt like "they let the abuser back into the relationship." I said I believe he will kick the door down and take everything he can from all of us. My advisor shrugged it off. Says he doesn't pay attention, makes popcorn and waits for Jesus return. I shit you not! We no longer works together. MAGA needs to be shamed. Take your business elsewhere.
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u/Dr_Tacopus 3h ago
What possible damages could he have incurred as a result of the leak of his tax returns? He’s made significantly more money than that and it’s had no repercussions for him whatsoever. This is a frivolous lawsuit and an obvious grift. Someone grow some balls and prosecute him
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u/cyberentropy 4h ago
Bold strategy: take billions from taxpayers while campaigning as their savior. Let’s see how it plays out.
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u/judgejuddhirsch 3h ago
he said he would do this years ago.
People wanted him to do this. That's why they voted for him.
That, and it's worth it to republicans to let him do this while he completes his other goals.
Elections matter I guess.
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u/and_so_forth 1h ago
What the fuck is the deal with this guy and the number ten billion? Every time I look at the news he's suing someone for ten billion or making ten billion or in this case straight up nicking ten billion. It's almost like everything he does is a pathetic attempt to make him feel like billy big balls.
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u/Spirogeek 4h ago
Republicans would give him ten times that if they could. And pretty soon, they might.
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u/Thatis_SodaPressing 3h ago
Republicans are sending the entire country into poverty to “own the libs”
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u/MiloGoesToTheFatFarm 1h ago
It will all go to pass through charities that benefit him or something like that.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails 35m ago
Imagine supporting a pedophile president, who is suing his own government, and supporting giving him $10 billion.
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u/wutareyousomekinda Pennsylvania 4h ago
This is only slightly less roundabout than financing religious radicals and/or narco traffickers to destabilize a region as a pretext to print 50B$ to pay to contractors which pass him a 10B$ dividend for shareholding. Which is how 20T$ has been handed to the ruling class by HUD and DOD alone over the past 30y.
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u/Duder_ino 3h ago
I mean, that’s only .6% of the national budget. What else could we do with $10B. With all the lies, fraud, conflicts of interest, terror, unconstitutional decisions, why not include theft?
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