US presidential candidate Donald Trump presented a pair of golden sneakers at the "Sneaker Con" convention in Pennyslvania a day after he was ordered to pay nearly $355 million over a New York civil fraud conviction.
personally, i find the one with artwork more subtle, where they have some artist draw some low effort crap, then sell it for millions to cover up what the money was actually for.
Is this still an almost exclusively republican graft or are there now also democrats who have started doing the same thing?
Edit: since this question is apparently gathering downvotes without an answer, an explanation for why I posed this question:
As far as I know this is not a “both sides” problem, but it’s something that is being systematically done by republican politicians, not by democrat politicians. Framing it as something that is done by “politicians” paints all politicians as equally bad and deplorable, but that is simply not the case for this practice.
Now I do not consume all possible media all the time, so it’s possible that I am out of the loop in this instance and this practice is now also being done by democrats, which is why I asked the question.
Yeah, it’s a “both sides” argument, while it actually isn’t both sides. The comment is trying to paint politicians from both sides as equally bad, while I have only read articles about republicans doing this. And they’ve been at it for years, it must have been 2019 or 2020 when I first read about the book thing.
But moral standards for democrats are slipping as well, which is why I wanted to give that poster the benefit of the doubt and I was hoping that someone could provide a source showing that (some) democrats too are now guilty of this.
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personally, i find the one with artwork more subtle, where they have some artist draw some low effort crap, then sell it for millions to cover up what the money was actually for.
Is this still an almost exclusively republican graft or are there now also democrats who have started doing the same thing?
Edit: since this question is apparently gathering downvotes without an answer, an explanation for why I posed this question:
As far as I know this is not a “both sides” problem, but it’s something that is being systematically done by republican politicians, not by democrat politicians. Framing it as something that is done by “politicians” paints all politicians as equally bad and deplorable, but that is simply not the case for this practice.
Now I do not consume all possible media all the time, so it’s possible that I am out of the loop in this instance and this practice is now also being done by democrats, which is why I asked the question.
I didn’t see “Republican” in the breakdown, just “politician”.
Yeah, it’s a “both sides” argument, while it actually isn’t both sides. The comment is trying to paint politicians from both sides as equally bad, while I have only read articles about republicans doing this. And they’ve been at it for years, it must have been 2019 or 2020 when I first read about the book thing.
But moral standards for democrats are slipping as well, which is why I wanted to give that poster the benefit of the doubt and I was hoping that someone could provide a source showing that (some) democrats too are now guilty of this.
I don’t think it’s all money laundering. NFTs sure, but this seems more like the MAGA hats he sold to all of his fans.
Maybe democrats should take a page out of his book and sell tangible items instead of just asking for donations.