Does Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ count as a bribe if we never get the money?

Trump’s promise to pay $5,000 to every adult US citizen if the Republicans win in November was only one questionable moment in a nearly two-hour speech This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday Hello, from the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where on Wednesday night Trump definitely, definitely, did not try to bribe the American public into voting for his party in November. Speaking for almost two hours at the American Airlines Center, Trump promised to pay every adult citizen in the US $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The speech felt very much like a desperate last pitch to voters: the electoral equivalent of a dumped boyfriend offering to take his estranged girlfriend on a mini-break to Venice. Trump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’ As the midterms loom, Trump returns to his happy place: on stage in the theatre of the absurd Trump’s top six falsehoods about 9/11 as 25th anniversary nears Continue reading...

Trump’s promise to pay $5,000 to every adult US citizen if the Republicans win in November was only one questionable moment in a nearly two-hour speech

This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday

Hello, from the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where on Wednesday night Trump definitely, definitely, did not try to bribe the American public into voting for his party in November.

Speaking for almost two hours at the American Airlines Center, Trump promised to pay every adult citizen in the US $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The speech felt very much like a desperate last pitch to voters: the electoral equivalent of a dumped boyfriend offering to take his estranged girlfriend on a mini-break to Venice.

Trump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’

As the midterms loom, Trump returns to his happy place: on stage in the theatre of the absurd

Trump’s top six falsehoods about 9/11 as 25th anniversary nears

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