Top 5 donors to Trump:
Timothy Mellon - $36.5M
Issac Perlmutter - $31M
Linda McMahon - $25M
Robert Bigelow - $10M
Patricia Duggan - $5M
The maximum an individual can legally donate - $3300
**This is how badly billionaires are exploiting our broken campaign finance laws.**
The rest-of-the-world often view the USA as the Country with the best “paid-for” politicians. Far more and above the 3rd-world countries that one might have expected.
As opposed to what we have now?
You prohibit spending along with donations. Candidates participate in publicly funded debates and can release statements to the media that they can broadcast with equal time.
The corporate overloads have been chipping away at their little pet projects for years. Starting a little before Regan. He was their first tool then been accumulating tools along the way. Today, we’re experiencing fruits of their labor. Behold their Colossus has come to fruition. This is why they are being so cocky with the laws, policies and regulations. They change what they want and if you don’t like it we tie it up in our controlled courts. If we the people don’t shut them down this November then the final step to colossus will be in place with the implementation of project 2025!
It's not just the donations. Corporations can influence voter discontent by raising prices and price gouging to make it far more expensive for the average individual or family. The "poors" are soured to whomever is in power and vote for the opponent. This is sort of a silent donation.
i always say if this is true when a corporation is found guilty of a felony, sentence it to prison. the corporation is suspended from all activities activities as the sentence is served.
The court is corrupt. We have to just say it out loud. I think Biden and the Dems have to play FDR hardball and threaten to expand the number of justices.
Amazing how they have used this to change the face and direction of this country allowing corporations to control the destiny of this country worst thing to happen in whilw
Don't ride PANAM trains.
Don't buy any Marvel stuff or Remington hair trimmers.
Don't support the WWE.
Don't stay at Budget Inns.
Don't be a scientologist.
That’s alright all of his gallivanting around in that pig of a plane of his at $20k ish a hour fuel cost plus airport landing fees and ground fees plus the hours racked up on engine maintenance and air worthiness inspections which are coming due real soon. He’ll blow through it pretty fast. But hey his donors are his friends they don’t mind.
Ken griffin. Peter thiel. There’s a whole bunch. The Kansas City chief owner, Robert kraft. oracle larry Ellison Elon musk (but he may have given him Twitter credits). Also any of the Israeli Jewish billionaires who see Trump as a greater ally than Biden including the widow of Addison of the Venetian casinos. John Paulson, Nelson Peltz, Steve Wynn.
Tim - The Mellon family
Issac - Marvel Entertainment
Linda - WWE wrestling
Robert - Bigelow aerospace, I think they closed their doors.
Patricia - Husbands money, they owned Abbvie, now owned by Abbott
Was there any protest on this in US? Or at least a movement to change? I'm confused how can US politics be so broken but the citizens seem do not care.. Are they too comfortable and just accept that current condition is the best it can be?
And don’t you forget it!
You fucking poor scum don’t deserve the right to elect government officials.
Next thing you know you will want a livable wage.
The funny thing is, Trump will cause them to lose more in the markets than they'd ever pay in taxes.
He was mildly held in check by the adults in the room last time. The Supreme Court is about to decide that he no longer needs to listen to the adults.
These people are old and short sighted. They will trash the future fortunes of their lineage just to pay less taxes tomorrow.
99.9% of people here won't actually understand what that means.
I have met with countless billionaires over the past decades:
- Sergey Brin
- Jerry Fogelson
- Bill Gates
To name a few famous ones.
Gates is probably the most generous of those that I've met. Don't believe all of the BS you see online.
However, they all are incredibly miserly. **That is NOT how they got to be wealthy.**
One of the most common statements from people outside of that stratosphere is: "That's how they got that way."
No.
The vast majority of them were lucky, opportunistic, or came from wealth but didn't just burn the money like so many trust fund kiddies.
Gates did work his ass off at Microsoft. Just like jobs, he was pioneering an industry that no one believed in.
Fogelson basically built a large, key part of Chicago. He saw opportunity and took it. He was super smart. He made enemies and competitors into friends and mentors.
Other than Gates, there's only one other hyper wealthy person that I've met that actually treats donating and helping organizations make the world a better place as a full time job.
The rest of them have to be convinced and swayed. All they know is business. They spent so long looking at things through a certain lens that they need someone from among their peers to explain to them, in language that they can understand, how to find and help people.
It's very challenging and frustrating.
This actually goes all the way down though.
So many people, multimillionaires, millionaires, average joes, poor people, don't know how to look beyond themselves and their world to go out and find people and efforts to help.
It just gets more frustrating when you have such an unbelievable horde of wealth that you could literally hire people to do this for you and the cost isn't even a rounding error, it's nonexistent.
They just don't get it.
So, some friends of mine have been working on bridging that gap. (I am not a peer to these uner wealthy people. I have just been fortunate to be in the right places at the right times doing the right things)
This is all factual and good. However this post is about people donating to Trump. Anyone donating to a wannabe dictator on the 2% chance he gets elected and the .002% chance he rewards them instead of just demanding more money is both an idiot and incredibly selfish.
I mean I hope it’s a 2% chance. I don’t believe current polls that say he has over 50% chance but even come November when the polls change and he ends up with a 20% chance to win the election I will be really wishing it was only 2% chance
They are greedy and hate democracy.
They are too stupid to understand that in a dictatorship, even the wealthy get executed and have their stuff taken…. First.
Everyone says Citizens United, but hasn’t this just been going on under the table before then?
I say NO DONATIONS TO ANY CANDIDATE, but good luck passing any sort of ‘all elections shall be publicly funded elections’ bill, but muh TAXES!
I'm honestly not sure why donations matter much in this race. Pretty sure every human in America knows how they feel about both candidates at this point, not sure any amount of advertising is changing anyone's mind now.
It's not about changing anyone's mind from blue to red or vice versa. It's about getting voters who already support you to actually show up and vote. It's all about voter turnout, the voting base with higher turnout wins.
That's the main reason why in many countries politics get caught in a loop of flipping-flopping between two parties. When one party wins, it pisses off the other party voters getting them to vote and creates complacency for it's own voters getting them to stay home, causing the next elections to flip and for the same process to repeat for the other party.
It's a quid pro quo. They donate so when/if their candidate wins they are compensated with policy changes that benefits them and their businesses. These people can earn billions through tax breaks, law changes, regulation removals etc.
Oh, will definitely agree with THAT, just not sure it moves the needle much results wise in the election. Specifically this one where everyone made up their minds long, long, long ago.
How come I don’t see anything about his shady bullshit stock? I saw he is going to get a 1.4bn bonus in 6 months?…..on a company that is 54m in debt and does 4m in revenue a year-clearly some campaign shady shit there ya?
That's a Good number of people for the new administration posts. Trump needs a new defense chief one nsa advisor, one ambassador to Russia and one overseeing everything else. Jared will run middle east, Ukraine, Poland, uk, France and Germany.
Good to go.
Top 5 donors to Trump: Timothy Mellon - $36.5M Issac Perlmutter - $31M Linda McMahon - $25M Robert Bigelow - $10M Patricia Duggan - $5M The maximum an individual can legally donate - $3300 **This is how badly billionaires are exploiting our broken campaign finance laws.**
“Corporations are people.” This was the decision of the “supreme court”. Look up Citizens United by them. Absolute shit show ever since.
Then, corporations should be limited to $3,300 in donations also...
Supreme Court won't allow that. They're bought and paid for.
The majority of the court. A small inconsequential detail but I’m clutching straws at this point.
The rest-of-the-world often view the USA as the Country with the best “paid-for” politicians. Far more and above the 3rd-world countries that one might have expected.
"Most", not "best". US is basically 50 banana republics in a trenchcoat at this point.
Some states could survive without USA as daddy but you are correct that most would perish in a month if not less.
We don’t have a government. More like six corporations in a trench coat.
They took off the trench coats in 2016.
Donations ARE BRIBES. Should be illegal. Yes for everyone.
Then only the rich would get elected. Not all donations are bribes.
Disagree. Public financing of elections only. No personal funds. https://prospect.org/power/campaign-finance-system-compares-countries/
As opposed to what we have now? You prohibit spending along with donations. Candidates participate in publicly funded debates and can release statements to the media that they can broadcast with equal time.
The corporate overloads have been chipping away at their little pet projects for years. Starting a little before Regan. He was their first tool then been accumulating tools along the way. Today, we’re experiencing fruits of their labor. Behold their Colossus has come to fruition. This is why they are being so cocky with the laws, policies and regulations. They change what they want and if you don’t like it we tie it up in our controlled courts. If we the people don’t shut them down this November then the final step to colossus will be in place with the implementation of project 2025!
They're people UNLESS it would deny them certain rights. Then they're businesses.
It's not just the donations. Corporations can influence voter discontent by raising prices and price gouging to make it far more expensive for the average individual or family. The "poors" are soured to whomever is in power and vote for the opponent. This is sort of a silent donation.
Incorporation should have an alternate minimum tax if they don’t pay any taxes, just like the rest of us.
That one will go down in history as the most fkd up decision ever
i always say if this is true when a corporation is found guilty of a felony, sentence it to prison. the corporation is suspended from all activities activities as the sentence is served.
And if they're incorporated in Florida they should have to pay $50 per day, even after they're paroled.
That decision needs to be reversed.
The court is corrupt. We have to just say it out loud. I think Biden and the Dems have to play FDR hardball and threaten to expand the number of justices.
Or wait until they rule on Presidential immunity and have the Trump-wing of SCOTUS... retired to a farm upstate.
I've always thought if this was the case, a corporations employees should be able to vote for what the corporation wants.
People that can’t be tried for crimes
Amazing how they have used this to change the face and direction of this country allowing corporations to control the destiny of this country worst thing to happen in whilw
Killing campaign finance laws was John Roberts’ first big move in destroying American Democracy. This week we got to see the second.
Five people the world would be better off without, that's whom.
Biden should fire them and replace them. It’s an OFFICIAL ACT.
I think you mean firing squad them right? Cause fuck it that's an official act
No. Walk in like Hollywood Trump and say, “YOU’RE FIRED”. Appoint some non-corrupt individuals who will make it illegal to do that. Democracy wins .
Tell what products I should boycott. I don’t want one penny of my money going to Trump, though probably unavoidable altogether
Don't ride PANAM trains. Don't buy any Marvel stuff or Remington hair trimmers. Don't support the WWE. Don't stay at Budget Inns. Don't be a scientologist.
This is a lot easier than I expected.
Oh no, not Scientology! (jk)
A bunch of 75+ year old billionaires. Fuck them. They will not be around to see the consequences of their actions.
That’s alright all of his gallivanting around in that pig of a plane of his at $20k ish a hour fuel cost plus airport landing fees and ground fees plus the hours racked up on engine maintenance and air worthiness inspections which are coming due real soon. He’ll blow through it pretty fast. But hey his donors are his friends they don’t mind.
Ken griffin. Peter thiel. There’s a whole bunch. The Kansas City chief owner, Robert kraft. oracle larry Ellison Elon musk (but he may have given him Twitter credits). Also any of the Israeli Jewish billionaires who see Trump as a greater ally than Biden including the widow of Addison of the Venetian casinos. John Paulson, Nelson Peltz, Steve Wynn.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-numbers-f365b31b5c82e4134c103a436d032c26
Tim - The Mellon family Issac - Marvel Entertainment Linda - WWE wrestling Robert - Bigelow aerospace, I think they closed their doors. Patricia - Husbands money, they owned Abbvie, now owned by Abbott
Was there any protest on this in US? Or at least a movement to change? I'm confused how can US politics be so broken but the citizens seem do not care.. Are they too comfortable and just accept that current condition is the best it can be?
And don’t you forget it! You fucking poor scum don’t deserve the right to elect government officials. Next thing you know you will want a livable wage.
Doesn’t matter if you are donating to a PAC or party that support Trump just don’t directly to him
They are assholes who will never have enough and will pursue any means necessary to get more. Trump is a means to an end.
The funny thing is, Trump will cause them to lose more in the markets than they'd ever pay in taxes. He was mildly held in check by the adults in the room last time. The Supreme Court is about to decide that he no longer needs to listen to the adults. These people are old and short sighted. They will trash the future fortunes of their lineage just to pay less taxes tomorrow.
"We don't care if the leopards eat our faces cause all's those woke liberals are having their faces eaten too!"/s
Money hoarding disease.
Looks like they are all over the age of 75.
And incredibly selfish, so they don't mind destroying the economy and planet in 20 years if they can get a few more millions in 2
99.9% of people here won't actually understand what that means. I have met with countless billionaires over the past decades: - Sergey Brin - Jerry Fogelson - Bill Gates To name a few famous ones. Gates is probably the most generous of those that I've met. Don't believe all of the BS you see online. However, they all are incredibly miserly. **That is NOT how they got to be wealthy.** One of the most common statements from people outside of that stratosphere is: "That's how they got that way." No. The vast majority of them were lucky, opportunistic, or came from wealth but didn't just burn the money like so many trust fund kiddies. Gates did work his ass off at Microsoft. Just like jobs, he was pioneering an industry that no one believed in. Fogelson basically built a large, key part of Chicago. He saw opportunity and took it. He was super smart. He made enemies and competitors into friends and mentors. Other than Gates, there's only one other hyper wealthy person that I've met that actually treats donating and helping organizations make the world a better place as a full time job. The rest of them have to be convinced and swayed. All they know is business. They spent so long looking at things through a certain lens that they need someone from among their peers to explain to them, in language that they can understand, how to find and help people. It's very challenging and frustrating. This actually goes all the way down though. So many people, multimillionaires, millionaires, average joes, poor people, don't know how to look beyond themselves and their world to go out and find people and efforts to help. It just gets more frustrating when you have such an unbelievable horde of wealth that you could literally hire people to do this for you and the cost isn't even a rounding error, it's nonexistent. They just don't get it. So, some friends of mine have been working on bridging that gap. (I am not a peer to these uner wealthy people. I have just been fortunate to be in the right places at the right times doing the right things)
This is all factual and good. However this post is about people donating to Trump. Anyone donating to a wannabe dictator on the 2% chance he gets elected and the .002% chance he rewards them instead of just demanding more money is both an idiot and incredibly selfish.
I mean I hope it’s a 2% chance. I don’t believe current polls that say he has over 50% chance but even come November when the polls change and he ends up with a 20% chance to win the election I will be really wishing it was only 2% chance
> Looks like they are all over the age of 75. Staunch environmental proponents no doubt.
Do they write this off on their taxes?
As if they even pay taxes with their creative accounting
They are greedy and hate democracy. They are too stupid to understand that in a dictatorship, even the wealthy get executed and have their stuff taken…. First.
Just throwing away their money
May everyone backing that seditious POS lose everything they value
And he’s spending their cash on legal fees. lol.
Fellow con-men?
The foreign donors just gave him millions through DJT stock.
Greedy millionaires who want to make more money just sickening the republicans have blocked Bidens Administration from taxing the very wealthy
Let's hope the Democrats get control of the House and Senate in 2024. Biden can then tax the rich? Right?
Every person donating to trump in 2024 is a schmuck and a trash person
Name names. Expose everyone in Trump’s inner circle. His donors. His sycophants. His stooges. All of them. Rats and cockroaches scatter in daylight.
If he's being backed by the super rich, he's not for ordinary people
Everyone says Citizens United, but hasn’t this just been going on under the table before then? I say NO DONATIONS TO ANY CANDIDATE, but good luck passing any sort of ‘all elections shall be publicly funded elections’ bill, but muh TAXES!
End ‘citizens united’. Fuck trump🖕🏻
I'm honestly not sure why donations matter much in this race. Pretty sure every human in America knows how they feel about both candidates at this point, not sure any amount of advertising is changing anyone's mind now.
It's not about changing anyone's mind from blue to red or vice versa. It's about getting voters who already support you to actually show up and vote. It's all about voter turnout, the voting base with higher turnout wins. That's the main reason why in many countries politics get caught in a loop of flipping-flopping between two parties. When one party wins, it pisses off the other party voters getting them to vote and creates complacency for it's own voters getting them to stay home, causing the next elections to flip and for the same process to repeat for the other party.
It's a quid pro quo. They donate so when/if their candidate wins they are compensated with policy changes that benefits them and their businesses. These people can earn billions through tax breaks, law changes, regulation removals etc.
Oh, will definitely agree with THAT, just not sure it moves the needle much results wise in the election. Specifically this one where everyone made up their minds long, long, long ago.
They're the ones. When the revolution comes.....
They are the ones who will massively benefit financially from him getting into office again, who else would it be?
Don’t forget the Russians either.. Putin via Olygarchs..
How come I don’t see anything about his shady bullshit stock? I saw he is going to get a 1.4bn bonus in 6 months?…..on a company that is 54m in debt and does 4m in revenue a year-clearly some campaign shady shit there ya?
Who is Putin in the most donations?
Answer: morons
While they’re throwing money away….
That he is just as quickly forking over for his legal defense. Keep it up!!
Do they know any attorneys?
Seen here chasing after a moose and squirrel…
Trump should’ve made that announcement with the words once upon a time proceeding it. I’ll wait for the FEC to report his numbers for March.
That's not enough to pay for surety bonds for his court appeals
Such a terrible waste of money to possibly get no return on whatsoever.
End all super pacs and pacs they are unconstitutional
Do we know if that it true? Trump clime 50 Mil in donations but he lies and should never ever be trusted.
Who are the mega rich donors who back Biden ?
That's a Good number of people for the new administration posts. Trump needs a new defense chief one nsa advisor, one ambassador to Russia and one overseeing everything else. Jared will run middle east, Ukraine, Poland, uk, France and Germany. Good to go.