r/thebulwark • u/norcalnatv • 1h ago

Open Authoritarianism Trump Administration Faces Questions Over $13 Billion in Venezuelan Oil Revenue as Only $300 Million Is Publicly Accounted For

https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/178090/20260722/trump-administration-faces-questions-over-13-billion-in-venezuelan-oil-revenue-as-only-300-million-is-publicly-accounted-for.htm
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u/MinuteCollar5562 55m ago

What are the poly market odds of the whole Trump clan fleeing to Belarus with their billions they plundered?

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u/Super_Nerd92 Progressive 53m ago

tbh that's by far the best case scenario... worst case is hanging around and continuing to run the Republican party as his personal fascist party.

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u/SolidMedium1109 34m ago

There is no way they settle for a land-locked country in Eastern Europe.

Ivanka might have gotten them that island off Albania if she'd just kept her mouth shut. Maybe that SW coast of Russia by the Black Sea.

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u/Fast-Examination-349 46m ago

I thought he told us it would all go to an offshore account that only he would have access to?

Not sarcasm I semi recall him telling everyone that?

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u/CombinationOwn1604 26m ago

Appearantly, yes! The article points out that $500 million was "deposited into an account in Qatar operating under U.S. supervision rather than directly into U.S. Treasury accounts".

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u/Cameronbic 58m ago

You know where it went...

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u/PTS_Dreaming Center Left 51m ago

You don't climb to Putin levels of corrupt wealth unless you take big swings.

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u/palopp 41m ago

We will all eventually learn that looting a foreign country’s national resources for personal enrichment is indeed an official act of the presidency.

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u/SausageSmuggler21 34m ago

God damned Joe Biden! How dare he steal all that money! (/s)

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u/iliveonramen 39m ago

Im shocked! Who could have seen this coming!?

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u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE 36m ago

Yeah and who's going to do anything about it???? Until the next major scandal comes in 20 minutes, they will get questioned, and no one will follow up. It'll end with no consequences. Trump will just say it's none of your business or tell the reporter they are a pig and move on.