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Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
If democrats wanna go after trump for soliciting bribes, maybe they should work on outlawing those bribes and stop accepting them themselves.
Lobbying donations are legal in order to keep the money exchange transparent, specifically so officials can be held accountable for quid pro quo exchange. What Trump reportedly said was exactly what’s not legal, promising eased regulations or preferential treatment in exchange for donations.
Considering the very common practice of lobbyists drafting up specific legislation for politicians to use, i dont think this is the case. Or at the very least has zero enforcement.
It’s the latter.
My feed…
The AT&T article clearly states that it’s quid pro quo, or this for that. That’s not legal.
My point is that the lobbying doesn’t seem to stop the bribing.
It’s not meant to stop it. It’s meant to make money exchange transparent so the law can hold them accountable more easily if they’re used in exchange of preferential treatment.
I’m not a fan of monetary exchange in lobbying either, but at least now we can see the exchange instead of it being under the table like it was before lobbying law.
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying
Fortunately for them, Drumpf is dumb enough to break the few laws we do have so they don’t need to reign anything in to get him.
Oh yeah theyll get him this time
Just like every other time… 🤡
Lol, a little difference between lobbying, and offering services for specific dollar amounts, that just happens to be SURPRISE!!! ILLEGAL. Shocker right? I know, republikkklowns just look the other way, rules for thee not for meeeeeeee.
nope
Give me money to potentially sway my vote in a way that helps you. Ok.
I tell you give me a million and i’ll make that vote happen. Illegal and not ok.
I’m sure at this point you’re just a troll, but there is a difference there.
Sway your vote? Man lobbyists hand you the whole prewritten legislation to sponsor for their money. Legal because its going to your election campaign instead of directly to you.
I can’t believe you wrote that whole sentence before writing a dictionary, such hypocrisy.
Im not just calling out hypocrisy, i mean it literally, they cant do anything about this because laws are very lenient for campaign donations. So if they actually want to stop this, they do actually need to make legislative changes.