What happens when every American boy can grow up to be president of the United States, any American felon or questionable character can become president of the United States of America
- A man or woman who buys and sells public officials can be president.
- Any American woman or man whose candidacy for “service” in U.S executive or legislative office can be and is bought, directly or indirectly, through the entrenched—a status quo sustained by all major U.S. political parties—mechanism of a patently corrupt, anti-democratic campaign finance system can hold a seat in the U.S. executive or legislative branch (and by extension to the judiciary branch) of government.
Mr. Obama seemed to wish for his children the wealth of a Donald Trump. Songwriters’ song lyrics long to be “as rich as…” a Rockefeller; those lyrics later revised longed to be “as rich as that Trump fellow.”
Americans admire, praise, and take the money handed out by “the rich”—without asking the nature, source or aims of a rich man’s (or woman’s) wealth. How the rich stay super rich.
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uying Power and Public Office
Trump Money 1989-2015:
- $1,845,290 worth of political donations
- Republicans received $1,150,540
- Democrats received $694,750
Pre-2011, Democratic Party recipients of Trump money exceeded Republican Party recipients of Trump money
2011, 2015 years:
- Democratic Party members received $8,500 in Trump money
- Republicans received $630,150 in Trump money
Trump reportedly has donated to the Clinton Foundation and to prominent Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada), and President Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
In New York State, Trump has donated $553,390 to New York politicians,
of which $344,900 went to Democrats.
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onald Trump’s Political Donation History
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Federal Contributions |
1989-2010 Federal Contributions |
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Republicans: $718,300 |
Republicans: $294,000 |
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Democrats: $328,600 |
Democrats: $328,600 |
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Total: $1,046,900 |
Total: $622,600 |
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State Contributions |
2011-present Federal Contributions |
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Republicans: $432,240 |
Republicans: $424,300 |
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Democrats: $366,150 |
Democrats: $0 |
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Total: $798,390 |
Total: $424,300 |
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Total Federal and State Contributions |
1989-2010 State Contributions |
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Republicans: $1,150,540 |
Republicans: $226,390 |
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Democrats: $694,750 |
Democrats: $367,650 |
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Total: $1,845,290 |
Total: $594,040 |
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2011-present State Contributions |
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Republicans: $205,850 |
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Democrats: $8,500 |
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Total: $214,350 |
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Trump’s last contribution to a Democratic member of Congress: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), September 2010, two campaign donations: $2,400
Trump’s last contribution to the Democratic Party September 2010 to the Democratic Committee of New York State: $10,000.
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otable donations to federal-level Democrats
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14 donations to Charlie Rangel (New York): $15,750 |
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9 donations to Chuck Schumer (New York): $8,900 |
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8 donations to Hillary Clinton (New York): $8,700 (of which two donations totaling $4,000 were refunded) |
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4 donations to Harry Reid (Nevada): $7,400 |
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7 donations to John Kerry (Massachusetts): $5,500 |
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2 donations to Anthony Weiner (New York): $4,300 |
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2 donations to Joe Biden (Delaware): |
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$1,000 |
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otable donations to federal-level Republicans
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7 donations to U.S. Senator John McCain (Arizona): $10, 600 (of which two $1,000 donations were refunded) |
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12 donations to Frank LoBiondo (New Jersey): $8,250 |
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3 donations to Mitch McConnell (Kentucky): $6,200 (of which one $1,000 donation was refunded) |
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| 1 donation to Lindsey Graham (South Carolina): $2, 600 |
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| 1 donation to George W. Bush (Texas): $2, 000 |
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Today in blaring headlines, New York Times (the rag that gave the world nonexistent WMDs in Iraq and contributed to the decimating of a civilization) brought news that “Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the U.S. presidency.
In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.”
In ten years of the previous decade and a half, the two-party beneficent
Donald “paid no income taxes.”
Really? What is not mentioned is this.
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here is nothing new here. This is another episode of political expediency, plutocrats playing with one another, at the public’s expense.
The New York Times, public figures and media personalities, politicians stretching from Washington to California to New York City have long known the native son of Queens. They have protected Donald John Trump—as they have protected the Gates, Bezos, Buffett, Sackler, Walton, et.al, empires. Wined, dined, and danced with them; and conspired to keep the general public dumb and in debt, paying their taxes, and consuming stuff they don’t need.
Sources
Ballotpedia “History of Donald Trump’s political donations” last updated: October 26, 2016 https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_Donald_Trump%27s_political_donations https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_Donald_Trump%27s_political_donations#Trump.27s_political_contributions_by_year.2C_1989-2015
OpenSecrets “Senators overseeing impeachment trial got campaign cash from Trump legal team members” by Karl Evers-Hillstrom January 27, 2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/01/senators-overseeing-impeachment-got-campaign-cash-from-trump-team/
New York Times “The President’s Taxes: Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance” September 27, 2020, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire with contributions from David Kirkpatrick, Kitty Bennett and Jesse Drucker, illustrations Justin Metz https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
Democracy Now! (New York-based) “A
Criminal Tax Cheat? Bombshell NYT Report Shows Trump Paid No Federal Income Tax
for 10 of 15 Years” September 28, 2020 https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/28/elie_mystal_trump_taxes_nyt_report
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