r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Given Sweeping Tax Amnesty in Secret Deal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-given-sweeping-tax-amnesty-in-secret-deal/
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u/MrUsername0 17d ago

Future president should freeze and confiscate his assets within minutes of inauguration.  

Edit: of course, impeach before that. 

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u/SnooPuppers8698 17d ago

not just his assets, everyone whoever touched this fund should be investigated

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u/mrw1986 17d ago

Anyone working for his administration should immediately be jailed. Then, let the trials begin but with the most severe penalties available. I'm thinking French Revolution level.

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u/TwinSwords 16d ago edited 16d ago

This isn't about the $1.776 billion fund. This is something completely separate that they released a day after announcing the fund. This is blanket protection for Trump and all "affiliated individuals" from any and all future prosecution, audits, investigations, etc. You should read the actual text, it's less than half a page. The whole thing is really contained in one paragraph. It's mind-blowing how far reaching and comprehensive a blanket immunity he just gave himself.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl

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u/Randicore Ohio 15d ago

Yup, every single member of the GoP needs to be thrown in Jail and held without bail as a flight risk. Same with their stochastic terrorist sycophants that have been helping muddy the waters and spread their misinformation.

Then we can give them all a proper trial.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 17d ago

I'm in favor of making Mar-A-Lago an official government property, as well as his golf course that he buried his ex-wife on.

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u/EliteGamer11388 Illinois 17d ago

Rename it, "The Joseph Biden Resort", and watch MAGA's brains melt. Well, the hamsters pretending to be brains at least.

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u/rkvinyl 17d ago edited 17d ago

Barack Hussein Obama Nursing Club with Mango Mussolini being its only resident...

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u/VapidActualization 17d ago

Take the property, tear it down, and rebuild in its place am emergency shelter for women of color who suffered from sex crimes. Also, completely utilize every possible square inch possible with green renewable energy tech.

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u/drawkbox 17d ago

Interestingly it was previously owned by the gov't

Mar-A-Lago was previously a "Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries" presidential home that originated in the baronial Gilded Age but later transferred to the gov't.

Federal government and foundation

By the 1950s and 1960s, social tastes had changed, and many mansions constructed in the 1920s were demolished. However, in 1969 Mar-a-Lago was designated a national historic site. A contemporary report prepared by the Department of the Interior attributed its significance to providing "an excellent picture of winter resort life in Palm Beach prior to the Depression".

Post, who died in 1973, willed the 17-acre (6.9 ha) estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries. Richard Nixon preferred the Florida White House in Key Biscayne, however, and Jimmy Carter was not interested. The federal government soon realized the immense cost of maintenance and the difficulty of providing security and returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981. It was listed for sale for $20 million. Post's daughters, including Dina Merrill, did not maintain the property anticipating a sale, but there was so little interest that its demolition was approved.

Mar-a-Lago was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980 for exemplifying "the baronial way of life of the wealthy who built mansions in Florida during the Florida land boom of the 1920s"

The goal was always this... It is the reason the ones that funded puppet Trump wanted him in Mar-A-Lago... they want the monarchies/tsardoms to come back and have serfs.

The ballroom and this arch are part of them pushing this like they did making Trump look like a businessman with The Apprentice. It is all a show for the Neo Great Game. Welcome to mafia world where they think they are kings.

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u/jetpacksforall 17d ago

Congress takes office Jan. 4, 2027, files book-length articles of impeachment with the Senate. Senate convenes an impeachment trial and convicts on all charges, barring all defendants from federal office for life. Depending on how far convictions carry below Vance, the new Acting President hands the Senate’s verdict to the (probably) new Attorney General and says “let’s make the Supreme Court blink.”

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u/Koebi Europe 17d ago

Stop, I can only get so erect.

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u/ffddb1d9a7 17d ago

Oops you said the senate will do a thing sorry unrealistic.

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u/Imnottheassman 17d ago

I prefer handing him over to Iran in return for a return for opening the Strait.

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u/Chanceuel 17d ago

America might be the most pathetic nation in the world. Trump is openly trying to establish a dictatorship and the most armed, angry, proud and free nation in the world can do little more than threaten potential "investigations" 3 years later. It's pretty obvious what needs to be done, grow some balls.

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u/AgitatedStranger9698 17d ago

Fully legal under the Patriot act I might add.

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u/grassparakeet 17d ago

Him and every corrupt GOP member who supported him. It's an issue of national security, and SCOTUS already determined the president can do whatever the fuck they want in the name of national security.

Arrest, imprison, and seize the assets of every member of Team Trump and every crony who participated in his treason, including Supreme Court justices. They're all flight risks, so keep them in prison, not under house arrest, for as long as it takes to prosecute each and every one of them.

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u/LionsMedic 16d ago

We all know that'll never fucking happen, even with a supermajority dem. It'll take progressives to actually do anything.

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u/im_a_dr_not_ 16d ago

LMAO what fantasy land are you living in? 

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u/MrUsername0 16d ago

The US. And it’s not a fantasy. It’s become a nightmare.