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[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bet a dollar that the campaign bought all the stupid shoes. Watch for them being handed out a donor events. Nifty little way to have the campaign pay his legal fees.

[–] ZeroCool 22 points 8 months ago

Yeah some sort of shenanigans like that would not surprise me, especially because the shoes don’t even exist. The fine print claims they might ship in July lol.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

the campaign bought

That's not how money laundering works. Russia buys the shoes through a shell company and then donates them to the campaign for their actual value of almost $0. Then the campaign hands them out and trump gets the Russia money.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is nothing new. A lot of "political " books end up on best seller list because PACs pre-order them in bulk then give them out to donors. About twenty years ago the NYT started putting an asterisk Next to books on their best seller list that got there using this method