r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Kimberly Guilfoyle Reportedly Hiding Secret Burn Book on Trump Family - “Kimberly knows where the bodies are buried,” one source said.

https://newrepublic.com/post/216609/kimberly-guilfoyle-hiding-secret-burn-book-trump-family
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u/dmetzcher Pennsylvania 15h ago

That’s the thing, man…

Don’t get me wrong—$100,000 is a lot of money for most of us—but I’m always amazed to see how much people are willing to risk for relatively small sums of money.

Prison over a hundred grand? Fuck off—not worth it to me. I’d rather declare bankruptcy. The reward does not outweigh the risk, and the risk is high when you work for a scumbag administration being scrutinized by every member of the opposition party and the press.

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u/nono3722 15h ago

100,000 is the tip of the iceberg if she was getting this sloppy.

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u/AINonsense 15h ago

Prison over a hundred grand?

Yeh, but you probably don’t belong to class that believes the laws are for the little people.

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u/shrekerecker97 14h ago

And so far sadly that has been correct

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u/Eatpineapplerightnow 14h ago

Money is not everything to you. You see money as a means to an end. These people dont have anything else

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u/Specialist-Clock-914 15h ago

These people aren’t going to jail. They’ve legalized crime for anyone with a net worth of $1 million. If you’re not in fraud you are getting left behind. Here we just thought he was legalizing comedy for Elon to ripped to shreds by all the people he wants to be friends with.

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u/No_Introduction_9355 3h ago

It’s crazy to see politicians and judges getting caught for low level bribes and corruption. These people work their entire lives to get to these positions and throw everything away for a fraction of their yearly income.

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u/dmetzcher Pennsylvania 3h ago edited 3h ago

It’s a level of arrogance I will never be able to understand. They just don’t believe they will ever get caught. If you are familiar with John Edwards, I had originally supported him during the 2008 Democratic primary, and other than our current, sitting psychopath of a president, I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen a politician more arrogant in my life.

He got his mistress pregnant while he was running for president at the same time his wife was dying of cancer. Then he had one of his staffers pretend to be the father of the child, which caused unimaginable stress for that staffer and his wife because they could not tell any of their family members what was really going on. They even moved themselves closer to this woman so that he could pretend to be the father for a while.

The entire time, Edwards was spending campaign money to put his mistress up in a house and care for her. I think it was a few hundred grand. If he had gotten the nomination, he would’ve tanked the entire party that year. Or worse… It could’ve come out while he was president. He thought he was untouchable.

I supported him because he was the only politician I’d ever heard spend most of his time talking specifically about poor people. Not the middle class, but poor people—the forgotten. I thought he might be the next Bobby Kennedy. He got bounced from the primary, so I shifted immediately to Obama, and the rest is history. It turned out that Obama was the guy I was really looking for. Not a single scandal to his name during his eight years in office.