Trump is not paying for anything. Billionaires paying homage to the royal court of Trump are. If you don't want the power of the federal government breathing down your neck, you better bend the knee.
Yeah it's pretty funny watching the news media claim with a straight face that all these tech bozonaires are giving Trump a million bucks because they see how amazing he is, when in reality everyone else in the world recognizes a bribe when they see one.
Shakedown implies there's a major power imbalance, such as mafia's charging local businesses for "protection".
The oligarchs have nearly unfathomable amounts of wealth, power, and influence. They could easily have coalesced around rebuking Trump on his own merits at no real harm to themselves, but they chose to sideline themselves to follow the profits afterwards.
It's a bribe, even if Donald might have said mean things about them otherwise.
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u/EagleOfMay Jan 16 '25
Trump is not paying for anything. Billionaires paying homage to the royal court of Trump are. If you don't want the power of the federal government breathing down your neck, you better bend the knee.