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Miles Archer

(22,103 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:20 PM 19 hrs ago

70% of the $40 M Melania doc "production costs"...$28 M...was a DIRECT DEPOSIT from BEZOS to the FIRST NUDE'S account

I guess that now, anyone who felt bad about calling Bezos' $40 million bribe to Trump and his wife "a bribe" can now relax. It's a bribe.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-behind-the-scenes-1235505208/

According to The Wall Street Journal, the first lady kept roughly 70 percent of the licensing fee, $28 million, herself. And, technically, there is nothing illegal about that. “The first lady is, for ethical purposes, considered to be a private citizen, and so the conflicts-of-interest statutes, the regulations for other executive branch employees, simply don’t apply,” says Don Fox, the former acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, who worked under Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama.

But, Fox adds, his office would have advised against accepting such a lucrative deal with Amazon at the start of a new administration because of the extensive business Bezos had before the federal government: “It just looks like it’s buying access and buying favor.” Amazon Web Services is a giant federal contractor supporting numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, and Bezos’ aerospace company, Blue Origin, has NASA contracts worth billions of dollars.
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70% of the $40 M Melania doc "production costs"...$28 M...was a DIRECT DEPOSIT from BEZOS to the FIRST NUDE'S account (Original Post) Miles Archer 19 hrs ago OP
Best Review of Melania Coldwater 18 hrs ago #1
The Donald...... SergeStorms 18 hrs ago #2

SergeStorms

(20,130 posts)
2. The Donald......
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:48 PM
18 hrs ago

wants everyone to know that he can be bought.
Anonymous "donations" are not accepted. If you object to being owned by The Donald, you're not a true sycophant.

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