“Corporations facing federal lawsuits and investigations aren’t giving millions to Trump’s inauguration out of the kindness of their hearts. They are trying to buy goodwill.”
An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, an indication that companies’ attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off.
In the new analysis, the watchdog group Public Citizen cross-references FEC data released Sunday with its own Corporate Enforcement Tracker, which documents companies facing federal cases for alleged wrongdoing.
Public Citizen found that corporations facing federal investigations or enforcement lawsuits donated a combined $50 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Trump raised a record sum of $239 million for his second inauguration, the new FEC filings show.
Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.
The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.
If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.
This will take decades to clean up if it’s possible at all.
Oh yeah, decades at a minimum. How long has it been since Reagan was president? We’re still dealing with the fallout from his administration all these years later. Granted, Reagan was just a bad president that could project the confidence of a competent one so he got a lot of leeway from the political establishment and I don’t think Trump enjoys the same amount of trust from our institutions, but he’s cranking the dial up to 11 in terms of trying to get away with shit that will change the country possibly forever and in an objectively bad way.
And the left will forever be trying to play catch-up as we waste consecutive terms undoing the harm done rather than pushing a progressive agenda.