Iām no fan of Trump but one of these things is voluntary. If idiots want to choose to give him their post-tax earnings then I pity them but they should be able to do that.
The other is arguably a great benefit to society but is involuntary. We are taxed under threat of violence and have essentially no say in where the money goes. Our entire government is super broken and lawmakers very rarely make laws. Also why tf do we have to fund the world police? Our infrastructure is crumbling and our people are struggling to pay for basic needs.
I think the rationale is the same as those donation-based religious cults; by taking down the head, itās possible to better point out to victims the misinformation theyāre working off, that causes them to offer up their life savings. Eg, previously there were some complaining that heās reneged on prior promises after old donations.
Certainly less of a concern if people are actually donating āspareā money and can survive without it, but some people really buy into the āday of promiseā evangelism.
Doesnāt seem like a good comparison for the sake of the meme.
Yeah I mean as much as I love to rag on Drumpf at every possible opportunity, itās not like he chose to have a fine imposed on himself. In fact, he paid a lot of money to try to stop it
I feel like he accepted the risk of a fine when he committed a bunch of crimes.
Or did I woosh real hard there?
Well heās not super bright and he relies on shitty lawyers he doesnāt always pay so it might be arguable that he didnāt think he committed crimes.
Yeah im balls deep in Trumpās rural maga America and these two topics are never discussed in shared company lol. Thereās plenty to bitch about why make up new ones?
When you took your loan, you should have known youāll have to pay it off eventually. When Trump performed his net worth fraud, how could he reasonably know that heāll eventually get caught?
So punative damages are meant to scale with the wealth of a defendant so as to act as a proper punishment/deterrent of future offenses. Trump being able to crowd fund this punishment defeats the purpose of it. As such, either Trump should not be allowed to crowd fund at all (for anything, because he can always use that to undercut his punishment), or the court should compensate for this and multiply the damages to reflect this money stream into his net wealth.
GoFundMeās Terms of Service specifically forbid fundraising for āthe legal defense of alleged financial and violent crimes,ā so this fundraiser should be taken down. The next step would be for Trump to set up the equivalent sort of thing in-house, the way he made his own Twitter, then I really donāt know how this gets regulated.
