• ZephrC@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Look, campaign finance in the United States is absolute bullshit. Chances are that anyone dumb enough to buy an overpriced Trump branded bible could already legally just give him the money though.

    Yes. He is a con-man and a grifter. We all know that here. Trying to pretend this is money laundering when the money doesn’t even need to be laundered just makes you seem like a crazy person though. I would like for us to all stay in touch with reality. Election finance reform would be great. Wild criminal accusations based on nothing but vibes won’t help that happen though.

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      7 months ago

      Trying to pretend this is money laundering

      Ugghhhh. “It’s a form of money laundering” does not mean “We can accuse Trump of formal criminal money laundering as defined by the law.” We’re saying the cunt is making it easy for bad churches to funnel him money. That is still bad, criminal or not.

      Wild criminal accusations based on nothing but vibes

      Do you read my replies? Again, we are not making criminal accusations. And it’s not “vibes”: We can see the man hawking bibles to free up his own money for campaign funds. It’s so obvious what he’s doing, that he’s put out a phoney disclaimer not-quite saying he isn’t.

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        7 months ago

        So your argument is that he’s money laundering because money laundering doesn’t mean money laundering.

        Okay. This conversation was a mistake.

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          7 months ago

          Yes. Words have different meanings in different contexts.

          This conversation was a mistake.

          We got there eventually. Here I’ll do you a favour: Blocked.

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            7 months ago

            Cool. Guess you won’t be able to reply when I tell you that I’m sorry I mistakenly believed you might be reasoned with. The idea that somehow “money laundering” actually means openly selling things to suckers totally legally is just an obvious lie because you don’t want to admit you were wrong. You’ll never get to hear that though.