• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Even if this weren’t blatant self-dealing and corruption, what about the dollar amount?

    1.7 fucking billion? For how many supposed victims? What is the actual measurable harm that was used to base the dollar amount on?

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      17 hours ago

      The amount from other articles is $1.776 Billion, presumably because it’s a special number that makes the blatant theft of taxpayer funds go down easier to right-wing morons.

      It never had any measurable relation to the supposed reason for it and it’s just roughly the amount Trump thought he could get away with stealing, after anchoring public awareness to the $10 billion demand.

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        16 hours ago

        That’s the neat part, it’s not a settlement according to the judge. They’re just stealing it from the DoJ settlement fund.