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Should Donald Trump be tried for bribery?

Should Donald Trump be tried for bribery?

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ChezC3 said:
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The poster and the post don't match

C'mon brah...

Even if something like that would happen, The Donald would sing like a canary and he'd bring down the entire friggin system...

+++The flip side is that all those people he "bribed" would then have to be tried for accepting said "bribe".
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That is true.
 
sangha said:
No, it is not "what every member of the 1%, and all major corporations do". What they do is contribute money to organizations to advocate in favor of policies they support and the give money to politicians they believe who support those policies. They do not give money to politicians in return for using their office to perform "business-related favors" for them (which is what Trump admitted to) because that would be a "quid pro quo" which is bribery and that is a crime.
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Really? If I contribute $5.00 to a politician's campaign, it's because I agree with his politics and want to see him in office.

If I contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to a politician's campaign, it's because he's promised me things he will do for me while in office and I OWN him in that regard. Otherwise, he knows those same funds will go to a party competitor who WILL keep his promises to me come next election.
 
sangha said:
No, it is not "what every member of the 1%, and all major corporations do". What they do is contribute money to organizations to advocate in favor of policies they support and the give money to politicians they believe who support those policies. They do not give money to politicians in return for using their office to perform "business-related favors" for them (which is what Trump admitted to) because that would be a "quid pro quo" which is bribery and that is a crime.
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They may not be expecting anything specific in return, but when they contribute they are expecting some sort of net benefit for themselves.
 
jamesrage said:
Should Donald Trump be tried bribery? He openly admitted on national TV that he gave money to the Hillary Clinton,Harry M. Reid, Rahm Emanuel and other politicians because he wanted them to give him something in return. I am sure that if Hell freezes over and he wins the primary the media will make this an other nasty things about Trump a bigger issue in hopes that Clinton will have a easy victory.
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Can't really try him for something that's not illegal.

Besides, if we make it illegal, we'll have to try every candidate and politician around.
 
jamesrage said:
He admits in the video that he gave these people money for political favors.
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He gave money to their campaigns for political favors. That's not illegal. Probably should be, but isn't.
 
I promised to vote for our local sherrif if he took some of our Boy Scouts for a ride in the squad car.

He did...and I voted for him.

Now I hear a knock on the door! They're coming to get me for bribery.
 
jamesrage said:
Did those people admit to taking the money in exchange for granting political favors?
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You expect Hillary to ever admit to any wrongdoing without patently blaming someone else for it? Lol good luck with that.
Why did they take money from Trump? Because it was there birthday and Trump is their uncle?
 
jamesrage said:
Should Donald Trump be tried bribery? He openly admitted on national TV that he gave money to the Hillary Clinton,Harry M. Reid, Rahm Emanuel and other politicians because he wanted them to give him something in return. I am sure that if Hell freezes over and he wins the primary the media will make this an other nasty things about Trump a bigger issue in hopes that Clinton will have a easy victory.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=n00000528

Sanders Polical Contribution Disclosure.jpg

Of course, I could post a portion of Hilary Clinton's disclosures as well.....
 
Captain Adverse said:
Really? If I contribute $5.00 to a politician's campaign, it's because I agree with his politics and want to see him in office.
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Yes, really

If I contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to a politician's campaign, it's because he's promised me things he will do for me while in office and I OWN him in that regard. Otherwise, he knows those same funds will go to a party competitor who WILL keep his promises to me come next election.
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No, but if you contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to a politician's campaign and go on TV and say you did it to get "business related favors", you're a criminal
 
radcen said:
They may not be expecting anything specific in return, but when they contribute they are expecting some sort of net benefit for themselves.
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It's perfectly legal to expect something. There's no such thing as a "criminal expectation"

But it's a crime to give a politician money in return for "business related favors" as Trump admitted he did on national TV
 
sangha said:
No, but if you contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to a politician's campaign and go on TV and say you did it to get "business related favors", you're a criminal
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I see....and what exactly were his examples of "business related favors?" Hillary coming to his wedding "because she had to?" LOL

He spoke the truth. When people in business contribute to politicians, they expect business related favors. ALL of them do. It does not matter if it is a Union, a wealthy individual, of a corporate entity. They PAY, and politicians DO.

The problem is tying one to the other...hard to do when the contributions themselves are legal.
 
Yes. But he should be tried as a juvenile. No sense in incarcerating people who aren't yet adults.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I see....and what exactly were his examples of "business related favors?" Hillary coming to his wedding "because she had to?" LOL
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He said he received "business related favors". Are you suggesting that he was lying?

He spoke the truth. When people in business contribute to politicians, they expect business related favors. ALL of them do. It does not matter if it is a Union, a wealthy individual, of a corporate entity. They PAY, and politicians DO.

The problem is tying one to the other...hard to do when the contributions themselves are legal.
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Trump himself tied one to the other with his own words
 
akrunner88 said:
Exactly. I hate how much influence lobbyists, corporations and rich donors have on our political system and want nothing more than to see this power limited. As do many, if not most American's. But what Donald Trump is and has done in the past is perfectly legal, currently.
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the biggest clinton supporter in SW Ohio in the 1990s is now somewhat disgraced "Master of Disasters" Tort Lawyer stan Chesley who's support for Clinton resulted in his wife, The Honorable Susan J. DLott being appointed a federal judge. However, when Bush won re-election in 2004 (the inaugural balls in 2000 and 2004 were orchestrated by Cincinnati power brokers Mercer Reynolds and William DeWitt Jr (who had been partners with Bush in a MLB team-St Louis Cardinals) , Stan gave the Bush Inaugural committee a pretty hefty chunk of change. He figured Bush was president and he might as well be on the A-list.

Then again late Cincinnati Billionaire Carl Lindner Jr-a big time GOP supporter gave Clinton money as well-he wanted the same thing
 
How ridiculous. One thing people like about Trump is he is honest and doesn't talk out of both sides of his mouth like every other politician does. That's why he's not politically correct, because he's honest and states his true feelings. He admits to legal "bribery" in the past while currently not taking any money from establishment lobbyists as almost every one else does. He doesn't have any superpacs representing him. I say this not even being a Trump supporter. He's refreshing and you can't say that about hardly any other candidate.
 
sangha said:
Like when he claims that he saw thousands of Middle Easterners cheering on 9/11. Even though it never happened, it was "honest" because he really believed it happened :roll:
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Lets not forget he saw people jumping out of the trade center from his penthouse that was 4 miles away in midtown.
 
ocean515 said:
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=n00000528

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Of course, I could post a portion of Hilary Clinton's disclosures as well.....
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Did any of those groups of people come out as say "we giving this money to get political favors"? Donald Trump said that is why he gave to people who were supposedly ideologically the opposite of him. Although using the left's logic groups of people such as companies and Unions are not people,so you can't charge any of those groups with bribery.
 
jamesrage said:
Did any of those groups of people come out as say "we giving this money to get political favors"? Donald Trump said that is why he gave to people who were supposedly ideologically the opposite of him. Although using the left's logic groups of people such as companies and Unions are not people,so you can't charge any of those groups with bribery.
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Well, I don' know specifically. One can imagine that given the legislative ownership many of the unions can claim among the liberals they have contributed to, I can't imagine strings were not attached.
 
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