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 dont 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 its 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.