It’s hard to know because there can be many ways to make money indirectly or in time delayed ways. Who knows how much his friends and family are profiting. Each time there is some wild swing one way and then the other on tariffs, I am pretty sure someone is making a lot of money off that. Meanwhile the rest of us are taken for a ride of uncertainty.
gizzlon · 2h ago
heh, this disappeared from the front. Guess it's "too political" to talk about how the president is enriching himself and his family?
shrugs
AnimalMuppet · 35m ago
Per the site guidelines, it sure feels like "off topic for HN" to me.
gizzlon · 20m ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Guess I'd argue the the president of the United States taking bribes falls under the "interesting new phenomenon". Maybe people will say it's not new (?), but this level and this blatant certainly is. Not interesting? Well, people can disagree, but I think it is.
modmodmod · 1h ago
Agreed
0xy · 46m ago
After 4 years of pretending that Hunter Biden was an expert on the gas industry and not peddling influence and access, what authority is retained to comment on these matters?
How can this be reliable, audited, and free from corruption? Anyone associated with this Admin is getting a cut either straight up (which we won't know until the full four years are over since they won't allow investigation), or discounts. They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy). It's all just too much money for them not to be thieving.
lesuorac · 1h ago
> They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy).
Imagine if you as an individual had to pay 15% of your income to the government!
Oh, you already pay much more than that and you want to pay only 15%?
shrugs
Guess I'd argue the the president of the United States taking bribes falls under the "interesting new phenomenon". Maybe people will say it's not new (?), but this level and this blatant certainly is. Not interesting? Well, people can disagree, but I think it is.
10 for the big guy.
"SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: Well, the check is written to the person who receives it at the dock in the US"
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ip/date/2025-08-07/segment/...
Yeah ...
How can this be reliable, audited, and free from corruption? Anyone associated with this Admin is getting a cut either straight up (which we won't know until the full four years are over since they won't allow investigation), or discounts. They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy). It's all just too much money for them not to be thieving.
Imagine if you as an individual had to pay 15% of your income to the government!
Oh, you already pay much more than that and you want to pay only 15%?
https://dd7hi9rzn9wx17.archive.ph/drmM0/1165634a2f850012d4ed...
1. Happened in 2017, when Joe Biden was a private citizen
2. Was rejected with "an emphatic no" by "the Chairman" (Joe Biden)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...