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Trump Demands Cut of Donations to Republicans Who Use His Name: Report
The former president's campaign sent a letter to vendors demanding a cut of any candidate donations that use his name or likeness
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MAGA are fools who don't deserve to keep their money.
#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-17 05:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Wait, let me see if I understand this...
The Trump autocracy demands, no, requires, 100% unfettered adulation and support from the cult.
Now the cult leader is also demanding a [half] tithe from the cult members?
I do hope those candidates who follow this dictum place it on their financial disclosure forms. That might make it easier to cull the unthinking cultists from the rest of the candidates.
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-17 06:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
When the New York Mafia does this it's call extortion.
#3 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-04-17 10:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4
3. Trump just wants to wet his beak a little.
#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-04-18 01:33 AM | Reply
@#3 ... When the New York Mafia ...
Yeah.
But no.
My guess is that the New York Mafia want nothing to do with fmr Pres Trump.
As much as fmr Pres trump has seemed to try to fit into New York, he was rejected.
OpEd: The City That Raised -- and Rejected -- Donald Trump (2020) www.usnews.com
... New Yorkers knew Donald Trump first -- and they spurned him before many American voters did. ... More gadfly than player Though he is the scion of a wealthy real estate family, the city's old aristocracy never quite accepted Trump. In a tribal city, Donald Trump has no real tribe. ... Steve Kaufman, president of the Kaufman Organization, which manages around 20 Manhattan office buildings, has been in the business for almost half a century. Trump has "made a couple of good deals in his career, but he's not regarded as a serious real estate investor," Kaufman told me in an October 2020 interview for this story. "People in real estate are afraid to do business with him because he and his family and his organization are not honest people," he added, referring to, among other things, Trump's reputation for not paying his contractors. ...
More gadfly than player
Though he is the scion of a wealthy real estate family, the city's old aristocracy never quite accepted Trump. In a tribal city, Donald Trump has no real tribe. ...
Steve Kaufman, president of the Kaufman Organization, which manages around 20 Manhattan office buildings, has been in the business for almost half a century.
Trump has "made a couple of good deals in his career, but he's not regarded as a serious real estate investor," Kaufman told me in an October 2020 interview for this story.
"People in real estate are afraid to do business with him because he and his family and his organization are not honest people," he added, referring to, among other things, Trump's reputation for not paying his contractors. ...
#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-18 02:51 AM | Reply
the New York Mafia
I thought Rudi Colludi got rid of them years ago?
#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-04-18 03:13 AM | Reply | Funny: 2
REDIAL
"I thought Rudi Colludi got rid of them years ago?"
No, they just went ligit. These days, they're "businessmen" and politicians.
Trump, himself, still thinks of himself as a Godfather.
He's demanding "protection money" from down-ticket candidates, their committees and vendors who use his image or name or something unpleasant might happen to them. That's extortion."
#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-04-18 07:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Will candidates now say, "He Who Must Not Be Named."
#8 | Posted by mattm at 2024-04-19 11:48 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1
Der Dotard's own NIL deal. Of course, now every Dem candidate for office will have The Orange Insurrectionist's mug in every photo of their opponent. Who pays then? Does the DNC have to enter into a licensing agreement? Arguments over fair use of a public figure's face and curvaceous silhouette will start in about 3,2,1...
#9 | Posted by catdog at 2024-04-19 01:54 PM | Reply
Trump did compare himself to Al Capone and now sits in a courtroom acting like John Gotti.
#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-04-19 02:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
The answer is simple. Don't use the bumblefks name.
#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-19 02:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
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