{"id":4343,"date":"2026-07-17T12:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:35:24","slug":"a-minefield-laid-by-trump-is-enough-to-decimate-the-whole-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"A minefield laid by Trump is enough to decimate the whole GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was one of those stories that causes barely a ripple of interest anymore, one that we\u2019ve become so inured to that it passes almost unnoticed but that would trigger a massive investigation\/impeachment hearing were this any other administration.<\/p>\n

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Here was the New York Times <\/em><\/em>headline on Tuesday: \u201cTrump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the billion-dollar figures that accompany President Trump\u2019s name seemingly each hour, it was easy to dismiss this one. I mean, a measly two million bucks? That\u2019s like chump change now. A rounding error. Yet reading the story brought a fresh perspective on the everyday bribery, grift and graft that drives our criminal-in-chief.<\/p>\n

The $2 million payment was revealed on Trump\u2019s mandatory 927-page financial disclosure report, part of the $2.2 billion he earned in 2025. It was made by something called the Base Group, and the document referred to it only as a \u201cnonrefundable development fee\u201d (evidently the latest Orwellian term for payoffs). The Times <\/em><\/em>was told in a statement that the payment was related to \u201ca still-unannounced golf course project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is where things get still sketchier: this Base Group and its corporate affiliate Korea Aluminum were charged with circumventing U.S. trade duties. The payment was purportedly unrelated to the investigation into the company and its near decade of courting the Trump family. Yeah right.<\/p>\n

The article maintained that the financial ties between Trump and this company \u201cillustrate the minefield Mr. Trump has created\u201d with various foreign business interests all over the world.<\/p>\n

Of course, a spokesman for the Trump Organization was aghast that anyone could possibly infer that the $2 million had anything close to the whiff of a payoff that it appears to be. He defiantly maintained, \u201cAny suggestion that this transaction was driven by anything other than legitimate business considerations is pure fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seriously? Pure fiction? <\/em><\/em>Not even quasi-fiction<\/em><\/em>? It\u2019s like, \u201cOh, dear me, how could you possibly imply that anything surrounding this president is anything less than completely ethical and above-board?\u201d<\/p>\n

Excuse me while I take a few moments to laugh hysterically.<\/p>\n

Let me back up a moment to address the Times\u2019 <\/em><\/em>use of the word \u201cminefield\u201d in describing the environment Trump has created in the White House. Because no, it\u2019s not a minefield at all. It needs to be called precisely what it is in the headline of the story.<\/p>\n

Corruption.<\/p>\n

At the very least \u2013 and I do mean very \u2013 it creates the appearance of a conflict of interest and calls into great question Trump\u2019s integrity. (And no one understands better than me the absurdity of putting \u201cintegrity\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d in the same sentence.) To pretend otherwise is disingenuous at best and seems to prove the point.<\/p>\n

The Base Group is but a tiny piece of at least $125 million in payments that Trump\u2019s holding company collected last year directly from foreign sources in several countries, according to the story.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s consistently astonishing is that not even the thinnest attempt is made any longer to hide the self-dealing. Trump is operating like a guy who has Congress in his front hip pocket and the Supreme Court in his back pocket. He appears to believe that the immunity he\u2019s been granted extends to every area of his life, not just his presidency. And at the moment, he\u2019s probably right.<\/p>\n

The corruption being enabled and tolerated at the highest levels of our government is an international disgrace. The Republicans, who have not done a single thing to so much as acknowledge it, much less put a stop to it, own it just as much as does Trump and his cronies who are fleecing the country and destroying the rule of law in real time. It would only take 10 of them to put the brakes on this madness, yet they choose to do nothing.<\/p>\n

Of course, Trump\u2019s $2.2 billion gross revenue windfall last year \u2013 more than triple his $622 million total from 2024 \u2013 represents a shamelessly grotesque profiting from the presidency. The blatant grift is likely only to rise in 2026. I mean, what\u2019s to stop this guy from raiding the U.S. Treasury itself and snatching $20 billion, $50 billion, $100 billion?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look at the $2.2 billion. We know that a majority of it came from crypto scams. But think about how much money that is. Here\u2019s some simple math:<\/p>\n

Over the course of a year, $2.2 billion is:<\/p>\n