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magicarpet

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4. If the oil companies donated a billion dollars to trDUMP at the outset of his second term he,..

Reply to pfitz59 (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 07:06 PM

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... promised to take good care of them. They forked over the $billion. These are djt's gift of obscene higher profits to them.

A sweet return on investments. Hand over $1 billion, then a little over a year later billions upon billions upon billions more fattens your quarterly bottom line.

Kickbacks are the grease that lubricateso the wheels of a corrupt government.

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