Beaver [she/her]@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoDonald Trump Suggests He Would Not Defend Taiwan From Chinawww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down19
arrow-up1418arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump Suggests He Would Not Defend Taiwan From Chinawww.newsweek.comBeaver [she/her]@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up89arrow-down1·4 months agoHe’s perfectly okay collapsing the economy as long as he and a few rich friends make it out with more in the short term.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·4 months agoJust depends on if Taiwan or China gives him the bigger kickback.
minus-squareHeikki@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-24 months agoKickback sound nefarious and non-official. Call it a reward for official services. That’d make it completely legal per the SCOTUS ruling
minus-squareorbitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoExactly then it’s all very cool and very legal thanks to the US supreme court. Honestly it’s my official duty to collect unnamed sums of cash for favours, how else can a poor President of the most powerful nation on Earth ever survive?
He’s perfectly okay collapsing the economy as long as he and a few rich friends make it out with more in the short term.
Just depends on if Taiwan or China gives him the bigger kickback.
Kickback sound nefarious and non-official. Call it a reward for official services. That’d make it completely legal per the SCOTUS ruling
Exactly then it’s all very cool and very legal thanks to the US supreme court. Honestly it’s my official duty to collect unnamed sums of cash for favours, how else can a poor President of the most powerful nation on Earth ever survive?