jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoTrump hawks $100 commemorative coins in latest hunt for cashwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down110
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minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoIt’s not money laundering to sell dumb shit to idiots, like coins to magas, or bathwater to thirsty teenagers, or dogecoin to me
minus-squarenemonic187@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoIt is if someone from outside the US, who can’t legally donate to Trump’s campaign, buys 100 of these.
minus-squareBoofStroke@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoIt certainly is if most of the dumb shit is bought by foreign powers as a way to fund a campaign. See also bibles, nfts, sneakers.
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoYou would be gravy, but it would be easy to shovel millions of oligarch money into his organization which will lose it by buying the oligarch’s overpriced services.
It’s not money laundering to sell dumb shit to idiots, like coins to magas, or bathwater to thirsty teenagers, or dogecoin to me
It is if someone from outside the US, who can’t legally donate to Trump’s campaign, buys 100 of these.
It certainly is if most of the dumb shit is bought by foreign powers as a way to fund a campaign. See also bibles, nfts, sneakers.
You would be gravy, but it would be easy to shovel millions of oligarch money into his organization which will lose it by buying the oligarch’s overpriced services.