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Sharon Boyes-Schiller's avatar

With any luck, Democratic majorities in house and senate would allow this illegality to be documented and probed, but actually holding people to account is not going ot happen until 2029 and only then if a Democratic (or non-MAGA Republican??) is elected — and the entire crew isn’t pardoned by Trump on the way out the door. i can see him pardoning the entire corporate crew of all his companies — and those of Don and Eric and Jared etc - before he leaves office.

foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

Somewhere in the WH is a staffer whose ONLY job is to enter the bathroom with Trump in order to make comments like...

"Great one, sir! No president has EVER done it better!"

Patrick O'Hearn's avatar

10 customers, at $60k-100k a month, so possibly $1mn a month for the next 2.5 years...honestly, with all of the in-your-face corruption taking place, it's surprising this didn't happen sooner.

Tuomas's avatar

At such a small scare (10 or so customers??) it probably wouldn't work without someone finding out. But what is to prevent someone from just automatically and immediately rebroadcasting these on a competing platform?

It will be a good day when all this ends and an even better day where there is at least a small measure of accountability.

foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

The Hummingbird Project

"A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6866224/

I suppose I'm not so old (yet) as to completely abandon my "dog digging for a bone" persona...

Tuomas's avatar

Huh, I like the actors in this. I'm going to give it a view! Thanks for sharing!

foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

There was a movie about this concept, but I can't remember the name.

As I recall, someone was raising scads of money for (if I'm correct) a hard-wire news source in a location where mountains(?) hindered transmission speed.

I can only remember it didn't succeed properly, and there were some big names in the film. Real wonky, so not a big hit at the time.

Marc Sobel's avatar

The problem is like the fairy tale, nobody has called him by his real name, TrumpHellStealThings.

Jeff Stern's avatar

I don’t know why there’s not more talk about what’s in “Regime Change”. The amount of crap, bs, lawbreaking, money grubbing, etc. that has gone on in the Trump White House is astounding.

Minnette Howard-Tiedemann's avatar

It’s very hard to live through all of this horribleness, but I know it will end & those involved will be dealt with!

Gary Goldberg's avatar

Don't go after the President, its a waste of time and energy with the Republicans behind him. Go after the companies buying the early access as bribes and corrupt influence. Will Trump tailor his bleats to match their needs? Will the companies sue for their money back when Trump TACOs?