Bezos, Zuckerberg to donate to Trump's inaugural fund

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/12/us/trump-administration-news

Amazon plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. Sound familiar?

Amazon said on Thursday that it was planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, part of a pattern in which tech companies and their leaders are taking steps to repair their relationships with Mr. Trump.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said on Wednesday that it was putting $1 million into the inaugural fund, just weeks after Mr. Zuckerberg met with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

At the DealBook Summit in New York on Dec. 4, Mr. Bezos said that Mr. Trump “seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. And my point of view is, if I can help him do that, I’m going to help him, because we do have too much regulation in this country.”

Amazon also said it would livestream the inauguration next month, as it has done with previous inaugurations. The donation was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Here come the bribes.

[Initech]

2. This is some bullshit. Fuck both of them and their stupid money.

[Takket]

3. hey rememeber 2016 when there were all those obvious bribes and illegal donations to the inaugural event?

and nobody ever did a fucking thing about it? Glad that didn't embolden anyone else to pull that bullshit.........

[dalton99a]

4. $107 million

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/01/companies-that-funded-trumps-inauguration/
Companies that funded Trump’s inauguration came up big in 2017
By Alex Baumgart
January 19, 2018 2:25 pm

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trumps-inauguration-paid-trumps-company-with-ivanka-in-the-middle
Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle
As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law.
by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, and Justin Elliott, ProPublica Dec. 14, 2018, 1:19 p.m. EST

[Takket]

5. yup........ we all think things are illegal if it is written in a law somewhere

Things are only legal is someone feels like prosecuting it. if not, then go for it. Amazon, Meta, Saudi Arabia, whoever... go ahead and just pile on the bribes because no consequences are ever coming!!!!!!!

[oldmanlynn]

6. They have to do this or

Or trump uses the government to go after them. A 1 million donation is small change for those guys. Trump is transactional. He makes deals.

I just hope they run the shit into the ground soon so we can finally get rid of this guy