alt.hn

5/20/2026 at 4:18:55 AM

Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/05/19/even-by-trumpian-standards-a-18bn-fund-for-friends-is-bad

by petethomas

5/20/2026 at 6:27:04 AM

It's getting worse by the day it seems.

by edg5000

5/20/2026 at 8:54:46 AM

It will continue to get worse, much worse, until people are willing to talk about the answer outloud in public.

by frogperson

5/20/2026 at 10:53:35 AM

Are you willing to start?

by noman-land

5/20/2026 at 6:08:01 AM

Don’t forget about the lifelong immunity from IRS audits

by SilverElfin

5/20/2026 at 6:59:44 AM

All, or just specific years?

Anyway, a future AG can just say "agreement is over". No justice has blessed it, it's no more than a promise by this administration.

by quantified

5/20/2026 at 6:36:49 PM

It's for returns submitted in the past.

by tim333

5/20/2026 at 7:14:47 AM

It’s all future years for the entire Trump family, by my understanding.

by SilverElfin

5/20/2026 at 2:43:46 PM

How is that safe from being voided later on?

by quantified

5/20/2026 at 3:55:59 PM

Trump crime family. Put your personal lawyers in charge as attorney general? Hello? Prison for such blatent corruption is so obvious

by whattheheckheck

5/20/2026 at 8:21:23 AM

Another thing related to the Trump administration/family that only really makes sense if they don't expect to lose power in the future.

Almost like the creeping fascism is a real concern.

by bayarearefugee

5/20/2026 at 6:53:27 AM

President not just pardoning their own crimes, but their future crimes too. That's quite the move.

by jauntywundrkind

5/20/2026 at 3:04:23 PM

And for their children, and their children's families.

by FireBeyond

5/20/2026 at 7:27:59 AM

What constrained the sum to less than $2 billion? It looks like he sued originally for $10 b. Considering he relatively controls both sides, what stops him from choosing an arbitrary amount?

by arjie

5/20/2026 at 7:33:46 AM

The arbitrary amount is $1.776 billion. Like everything that Trump does, there's an extra level of gaudiness on top.

by huhkerrf

5/20/2026 at 4:00:10 PM

Okay, that's somewhat amusing. I'm just wondering why not $17.76 billion if he controls both sides.

by arjie

5/20/2026 at 6:47:55 PM

The biggest amount that right-wing media could reasonably ignore?

by r-w

5/20/2026 at 8:46:12 AM

Drain the other swamp, pump it into yours. Quack quack, suckers.

by ahartmetz

5/20/2026 at 12:03:18 PM

This frame it's his friends, as opposed to the people who fomented an insurrection and are now poised to complete a bloodless coup.

This arn't friends.

by cyanydeez