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Trump 'keeping tabs' on which companies aren't shelling out inauguration cash: report (www.rawstory.com)

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A new report from Rolling Stone claims that President-elect Donald Trump is "keeping tabs" on major corporations that have not yet forked out big bucks for his inauguration fund.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's actually normal.

https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/inaug_2009.php

This is not:

"In the past few weeks, Trump has at times asked close allies about how much major corporations have donated to the inaugural committee, and has sometimes inquired about specific companies by name," the publication writes. "Earlier this month, when the president-elect asked about one big-name corporation and was told it hadn’t donated, Trump replied, 'Well, they better do it soon then.'"

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the difference between corporate oligarchies and straight up fascist states that a lot of wealthy people don't get.

Bribes become tithes, they no longer own the government, the government owns them.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

It will be funny when they learn the hard way when they eventually get stripped of their wealth.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 9 points 21 hours ago

The fact that it’s normal is so fucking disgusting. Who is the government serving? Not us. That’s for damn sure