• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Uh. Whilst I want to agree, I’m going to need more thinking steps here

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      3 months ago
      1. Rich people and organizations want to give money to trump, but dont want it to be publically available that the money was given
      2. Trump puts out garbage books, nfts, shoes, whatever merch
      3. Interested parties buy them all as an easy way of him doing “legitimate business” that looks innocuous
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        3 months ago

        Also you can record cash sales of the shoes for thousands of dollars but you never actually sold it, just burned it or never even made the shoe, but now you have a legitimate transaction for your dirty money.

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          3 months ago

          After Some More News went on the recent silly tangent about Trump guitars, I fine the theory that none of these products even exist extremely believable.

          1. Take picture of existing luxury object (Gibson guitars, high end sneakers, fabrige eggs)
          2. Barf some hideous Trump branding all over it in Photoshop.
          3. Profit Laundering!
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        3 months ago

        More importantly in this case, it allows otherwise-illegal foreign contributions to Trump.

        Nobody is paying Trump for providing classified information. They just like sneakers.

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        3 months ago

        In step three, do the shady backers actually buy the shoes? I thought they gave the money illegally, and then trump and co laundered it by saying they sold all those shoes. Been awhile since I watched Sopranoes or Ozark.