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6:23Now PlayingDonald Trump has made corruption the big theme of his second term, and he’s decided that he’s still not making enough money off the office of the Presidency. According to new reports, Trump has decided that he’s not going to make the same “stupid” mistakes from his first term (where he thinks he didn’t cash in enough) so he has decided to RAISE the price of getting a one-on-one meeting with him. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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Donald Trump's open corruption is getting so bad that he has decided to continuously kick it up a notch. He has recently decided to raise the price of one-on-one time with him, you know, FaceTime, it started off back when he first came into office, right? You could buy a $1 million a plate dinner, which would get you FaceTime with Donald Trump. And then about a month ago, month and a half ago, he decided, you know what? I'm only getting a million bucks from each person. I'm upping it to 1,000,005, $1.5 million. So the price went up, you know, 50%. But apparently after just a few weeks of doing it at one and a half million dollars per plate for FaceTime with Trump, still not good enough, right? We, we can get those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers, right? And it is now going to cost you $5 million to get face time with the president of the United States.
So still for sale, still open to the highest bidder. It's just we want to exclude the riff-raff, right? And we've of course seen it this week. You know, the reports came out this week. Obviously Donald Trump, this, this woman whose son was in prison for these massive financial crimes, buys a million dollar FaceTime session with Donald Trump. Next thing you know, her son gets a pardon. We have seen it happen with other individuals. We see other countries pouring money into Donald Trump. The corruption knows no bounds, and Trump doesn't even feel bad about it. He's not even attempting to hide it. Let me read you this.
This is from, uh, uh, rolling Stone. Even seasoned practitioners of Washington Pay to Play have been startled by the new rules for buying influence. In December, a seed at a group dinner at Mar-a-Lago could be had for a million dollar contribution to MAGA Inc. But Trump has pushed the envelope once again with Rolling Stone reporting. Quote, more recently, one-on-one conversations with the president have become available for 5 million. And one of the executives who, uh, you know, knows all about this, he said, you know what? If he's in a bad mood, you have no clue where the money's eventually going. Another lobbying veteran described the Frank Exchange as Outer Borough Mafia. So basically, it's a gamble, right? It's not an investment. It's gamble because okay, you pay your $5 million, you get your one-on-one with Donald Trump, but that day he's in a particularly bad mood, right? McDonald's undercooked as Big Mac or the stock market tanked because of something stupid. He said on truth social. Or a Democrat went out there and made him look stupid. Or Vladimir Putin humiliated him. Again, we don't
Know. But if that's the day, if you're face to face, that $5 million may not get you anything. And maybe he just got smacked down by three judges in a single day, which has actually happened multiple times during this administration. So if you get him on a bad day, you just lost that 5 million, right? You betted on black and it landed on red, so you're in trouble. So it's not always a guarantee, but Rolling Stone continued. And here's what they said. The president himself has privately said on multiple occasions in recent months and years, according to two people who've been in the room with him. In Mobins, a casual banter, Trump has mentioned that it was stupid of other Republicans and advisors to convince him, at least on occasion, to side with government ethicists, who cautioned him from obliterating the line between public good and private gain. It was stupid that he didn't cash in more during his first administration. He's told people, both in public and behind closed doors
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