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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Grand goniff and billionaire Howard Lutnick, Trump's Commerce Secretary, announced that he secured $5 billion in a single day by selling 1,000 immigration gold cards, each valued at $5 million. Lutnick said that with a market of 37 million potential buyers, Trump is confident they can generate at least $5 trillion by selling one million of these exclusive cards. I didn't realize there were that many Russian oligarchs who will be buying condos in Trump properties.

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How much of the $5B was fraud, waste, and abuse?

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-22 12:17 PM | Reply

In a 2016 settlement with the Justice Department, Howard Lutnick's "Cantor Gaming" admitted to committing a host of crimes, including money laundering and aiding and abetting the operation of an illegal gambling business: corporate-prosecution-registry.com

Is there anyone in Trumpf's cabinet without a nefarious, mendacious, or sordid past?

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-22 12:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Between pumping Tesla stock (unethical at best), branding folks who would complain if their Social Security checks didn't show up as fraudsters who are not "Real American" (puhleeze), and now wading into offering entry tickets to potentially dubious characters, Howie really has been whoring himself around of late. My only question is whether he's auditioning for a known role in Old Senescent's tragicomedy or this is just tne sort of self-humiliation that's required to be part of the mad felon's fundamentally pointless game.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-22 12:20 PM | Reply

Who gets the money?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-22 12:22 PM | Reply

By the way, selling immigration cards humiliates this ountry.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-22 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

This is all SOP for these vulture-oligarchs who want to increase the size of the wealthy in the US while increasing the size of the poor. With the trajectory that Trumpf catapulted the US towards, instead of a pyramid shape of classes in the future, America will have roughly an hourglass shape of two castes. A small middle caste of police officers, technicians, religious leaders, and soldiers will occupy the narrow chokepoint, or interface, between the "haves" at the top and the "have-nots" at the bottom. AI technologies with facial recognition surveillance will make ensure the police state runs efficiently. Opportunities for the masses at the bottom to escape poverty will be nearly impossible or non-existent: webstockreview.net

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-22 12:54 PM | Reply

Who gets the money?
#4 | POSTED BY ZED

It's all being deposited into Trump's Panama bank account.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-22 12:59 PM | Reply

By the way, selling immigration cards humiliates this ountry.
#5 | Posted by Zed

Allowing unfettered asylum immigration was humiliating, made US look stupid the world over.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-22 01:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

To make room for each Golden Immigrant and their help, we pledge to black bag ten non-violent Brown Immigrants!

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-22 02:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#8

---- off Jeff, you mouth breathing idiot.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-22 08:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Are these the folks going to pick the crops?

#11 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-03-23 02:58 AM | Reply

Allowing unfettered asylum immigration was humiliating, made US look stupid the world over.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut a

OK, fine.

And selling immigration cards is a cheezy, low-rent, Trump scam that humiliates this country.

And so, therefore, you defend it.

Are you sure you're from here? ICE wants to know.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-23 08:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

"Allowing unfettered asylum immigration was humiliating, made US look stupid the world over."

That's such an obvious lie.
There is no polling which supports this.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-23 08:59 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 4

Trumpf selling off these Gold immigration cards to oligarchs debases the country. Note the Canadians new fighting words are "Elbows Up!" and "Canada is Not For Sale," unlike America with this fire sale to allow who knows what into our country. images.radio-canada.ca

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-23 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Allowing unfettered asylum immigration was humiliating, made US look stupid the world over.

#8 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Maybe to America hating pieces of s%^* like you.

Maybe it's time you leave?

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-23 12:11 PM | Reply

Maybe to America hating pieces of s%^* like you.
Maybe it's time you leave?
#15 | Posted by jpw

Hate America?, lol.

You're letting people just walk into your country.

Is that how you treat your wife, just let people have a go at her.

Is that the type of love you're talking about?

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-23 12:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Nobody wants to know your opinion, you stupid f^*%.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-23 12:50 PM | Reply

#16 | Posted by oneironaut

Don't you think that your ethnicity and skin color are liabilities under current regime?

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-23 12:56 PM | Reply

If course? It didn't. What it purports to be isn't true.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-23 02:21 PM | Reply

Who gets the money?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-22 12:22 PM | Reply | Flag

Word on the street is Space X gets the money for rescuing the astronauts.

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-23 08:15 PM | Reply

That's such an obvious lie.
There is no polling which supports this.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-23 08:59 AM | Reply | Flag:

You could always poll the DNC and ask them how the unfettered asylum immigration worked out for them in the election last Nov.

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-23 08:19 PM | Reply

Is that how you treat your wife, just let people have a go at her.

Is that the type of love you're talking about?

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-23 12:31 PM | Reply | Flag

Please don't get that sick mf started.

#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-23 08:22 PM | Reply

"unfettered asylum"

"Unfettered"?

What, does Vernon make a dictionary now?!?

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-03-23 08:26 PM | Reply

The money should go into the U. S. sovereign investment fund, which could then invested in ventures such as "Truth Social" , Tesla, and to prop up $TRUMP coins. A certain percentage should go to Donald Trump for liscencing his name and imiage.

#24 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2025-03-23 08:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

And these 'gold card' holders will be exempt from having to pay federal taxes on their foreign income, unlike American citizens. This means that they could move here, buy some mansion at one of Trump's golf resorts or a penthouse in one of his buildings, and live the life of an oligarch while enjoying all of the benefits of being an 'American', but without having to pay a single dime toward supporting any of it.

OCU

#25 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-03-23 09:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#25: Why is there anything wrong with that?

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#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-23 10:08 PM | Reply

Respect the limited disk space, FFS.

#27 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-03-23 10:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to start. Once again, equal treatment under the law doesn't apply to this administration.

#28 | Posted by cbob at 2025-03-24 06:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#27

Take a long walk off a short pier, ------.

#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 08:12 PM | Reply

I am glad that I am unable to read the comments from the trolls and hacks who must be paid to waste our time on the Drudge Retort, or else why would they be here and not on conservative blogs? $$$$$$

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-24 08:26 PM | Reply

I have questions ...

Who are buying these coins, and how have they been vetted?

But more important, this is A Good Thing ... why?

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-24 08:30 PM | Reply

JPW is now simping for massive illegal migration? Dude is going off the deep end quick.

#32 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-24 09:42 PM | Reply

Fuck off idiot

#33 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 10:23 PM | Reply

You're a god-damned fucking moron, pal.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 10:24 PM | Reply

Allowing unfettered asylum immigration was humiliating, made US look stupid the world over.
#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Link up, dipshit. No way in hell you can credibly corroborate that statement.

Swallow it.

#35 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-03-24 11:55 PM | Reply

#32 | Posted by BellRinger

Who gives a shit about JPW?

Why don't you actually comment on the context of this fucking situation, cultist?

#36 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-03-24 11:58 PM | Reply

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